Psalms 26:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Let not my soul be numbered among sinners, or my life among men of blood;

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  • Ps 139:19 : 19 If only you would put the sinners to death, O God; go far from me, you men of blood.
  • Mal 3:18 : 18 Then you will again see how the upright man is different from the sinner, and the servant of God from him who is not.
  • Matt 24:51 : 51 And will have him cut in two, and will give him a part in the fate of the false ones: there will be weeping and cries of sorrow.
  • Matt 25:32 : 32 And before him all the nations will come together; and they will be parted one from another, as the sheep are parted from the goats by the keeper.
  • Matt 25:44 : 44 Then will they make answer, saying, Lord, when did we see you in need of food or drink, or wandering, or without clothing, or ill, or in prison, and did not take care of you?
  • Matt 25:46 : 46 And these will go away into eternal punishment; but the upright into eternal life.
  • Rev 22:14-15 : 14 A blessing on those whose robes are washed, so that they may have a right to the tree of life, and may go in by the doors into the town. 15 Outside are the dogs, and those who make use of evil powers, those who make themselves unclean, and the takers of life, and those who give worship to images, and everyone whose delight is in what is false.
  • 1 Sam 22:18-19 : 18 Then the king said to Doeg, You are to put the priests to death. And Doeg the Edomite, turning on the priests and attacking them, put to death that day eighty-five men who took up the ephod. 19 And Nob, the town of the priests, he put to the sword, all the men and women, children and babies at the breast, and oxen and asses and sheep.
  • 1 Sam 25:29 : 29 And though a man has taken up arms against you, putting your life in danger, still the soul of my lord will be kept safe among the band of the living with the Lord your God; and the souls of those who are against you he will send violently away from him, like stones from a bag.
  • 2 Sam 16:7 : 7 And Shimei said, with curses, Be gone, be gone, you man of blood, you good-for-nothing:
  • 2 Sam 21:1 : 1 In the days of David they were short of food for three years, year after year; and David went before the Lord for directions. And the Lord said, On Saul and on his family there is blood, because he put the Gibeonites to death.
  • Ps 28:1-3 : 1 <Of David.> My cry goes up to you, O Lord, my Rock; do not keep back your answer from me, so that I may not become like those who go down into the underworld. 2 Give ear to the voice of my prayer, when I am crying to you, when my hands are lifted up to your holy place. 3 Do not take me away with the sinners and the workers of evil, who say words of peace to their neighbours, but evil is in their hearts.
  • Ps 51:14 : 14 Be my saviour from violent death, O God, the God of my salvation; and my tongue will give praise to your righteousness.
  • Ps 55:23 : 23 But you, O God, will send them down into the underworld; the cruel and the false will be cut off before half their days are ended; but I will have faith in you.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 19 If only you would put the sinners to death, O God; go far from me, you men of blood.

  • 3 Do not take me away with the sinners and the workers of evil, who say words of peace to their neighbours, but evil is in their hearts.

  • Ps 59:2-3
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    2 Take me out of the power of the workers of evil, and keep me safe from the men of blood.

    3 For see, they are watching in secret for my soul; the strong have come together against me? but not because of my sin, or my evil-doing, O Lord.

  • Ps 26:4-6
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    4 I have not taken my seat with foolish persons, and I do not go with false men.

    5 I have been a hater of the band of wrongdoers, and I will not be seated among sinners.

    6 I will make my hands clean from sin; so will I go round your altar, O Lord;

  • Ps 26:10-11
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    10 In whose hands are evil designs, and whose right hands take money for judging falsely.

    11 But as for me, I will go on in my upright ways: be my saviour, and have mercy on me.

  • 21 They are banded together against the soul of the upright, to give decisions against those who have done no wrong.

  • 4 Keep my heart from desiring any evil thing, or from taking part in the sins of the evil-doers with men who do wrong: and let me have no part in their good things.

  • Ps 69:27-28
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    27 Let their punishment be increased; let them not come into your righteousness.

    28 Let their names be taken from the book of the living, let them not be numbered with the upright.

  • 9 Keep me from the net which they have put down for me, and from the designs of the workers of evil.

  • 14 O God, men of pride have come up against me, and the army of violent men would take my life; they have not put you before them.

  • 4 O Lord, take me out of the hands of sinners; keep me safe from the violent man: for they are designing my downfall.

  • Prov 1:10-11
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    10 My son, if sinners would take you out of the right way, do not go with them.

    11 If they say, Come with us; let us make designs against the good, waiting secretly for the upright, without cause;

  • 9 From the evil-doers who are violent to me, and from those who are round me, desiring my death.

  • 23 But you, Lord, have knowledge of all the designs which they have made against my life; let not their evil-doing be covered or their sin be washed away from before your eyes: but let it be a cause of falling before you: so do to them in the time of your wrath.

  • Job 16:17-18
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    17 Though my hands have done no violent acts, and my prayer is clean.

    18 O earth, let not my blood be covered, and let my cry have no resting-place!

  • 8 Lord, your house has been dear to me, and the resting-place of your glory.

  • 15 My son, do not go with them; keep your feet from their ways:

  • 14 Be my saviour from violent death, O God, the God of my salvation; and my tongue will give praise to your righteousness.

  • 1 Have no envy for evil men, or any desire to be with them:

  • 12 Do not give me into their hands, because false witnesses have come out against me, and men breathing destruction.

  • 13 Keep your servant back from sins of pride; let them not have rule over me: then will I be upright and free from great sin.

  • 11 Do not put me away from before you, or take your holy spirit from me.

  • 7 Keep yourselves far from any false business; never let the upright or him who has done no wrong be put to death: for I will make the evil-doer responsible for his sin.

  • 30 (For I did not let my mouth give way to sin, in putting a curse on his life;)

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    6 You will send destruction on those whose words are false; the cruel man and the man of deceit are hated by the Lord.

  • 11 Let not the foot of pride come against me, or the hand of the evil-doers put me out of my place.

  • 18 Come near to my soul, for its salvation: be my saviour, because of those who are against me.

  • 9 But those whose desire is my soul's destruction will go down to the lower parts of the earth.

  • 35 Let sinners be cut off from the earth, and let all evil-doers come to an end. Give praise to the Lord, O my soul. Give praise to the Lord.

  • 2 Let not your servant come before you to be judged; for no man living is upright in your eyes.

  • 9 Let your face be turned from my wrongdoing, and take away all my sins.

  • 10 For you will not let my soul be prisoned in the underworld; you will not let your loved one see the place of death.

  • 6 My soul has long been living with the haters of peace.

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    5 For this cause there will be no mercy for sinners when they are judged, and the evil-doers will have no place among the upright,

  • 11 Put them not to death, for so my people will keep the memory of them: let them be sent in all directions by your power; make them low, O Lord our saviour.

  • 2 Keep me safe from the secret purpose of wrongdoers; from the band of the workers of evil;

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    4 For you are not a God who takes pleasure in wrongdoing; there is no evil with you.

  • 15 Let the hand of death come on them suddenly, and let them go down living into the underworld; because evil is in their houses and in their hearts.

  • 10 Men of blood are haters of the good man, and evil-doers go after his soul.

  • 6 Take no part in their secrets, O my soul; keep far away, O my heart, from their meetings; for in their wrath they put men to death, and for their pleasure even oxen were wounded.

  • 26 Be not one of those who give their hands in an agreement, or of those who make themselves responsible for debts:

  • 11 Give me life, O Lord, because of your name; in your righteousness take my soul out of trouble.

  • 13 Up! Lord, come out against him, make him low, with your sword be my saviour from the evil-doer.