Psalms 37:11
But the gentle will have the earth for their heritage; they will take their delight in peace without measure.
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- Matt 5:5 : 5 Happy are the gentle: for the earth will be their heritage.
- Ps 119:165 : 165 Great peace have lovers of your law; they have no cause for falling.
- Ps 72:7 : 7 In his days may the upright do well, living in peace as long as there is a moon in heaven.
- Ps 36:8 : 8 The delights of your house will be showered on them; you will give them drink from the river of your pleasures.
- Isa 26:3 : 3 The man whose heart is unmoved you will keep in peace, because his hope is in you.
- Isa 48:18 : 18 If only you had given ear to my orders, then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness as the waves of the sea:
- Isa 57:18-21 : 18 I have seen his ways, and I will make him well: I will give him rest, comforting him and his people who are sad. 19 I will give the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace, to him who is near and to him who is far off, says the Lord; and I will make him well. 20 But the evil-doers are like the troubled sea, for which there is no rest, and its waters send up earth and waste. 21 There is no peace, says my God, for the evil-doers.
- John 14:27 : 27 May peace be with you; my peace I give to you: I give it not as the world gives. Let not your heart be troubled; let it be without fear.
- Gal 5:22-23 : 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, a quiet mind, kind acts, well-doing, faith, 23 Gentle behaviour, control over desires: against such there is no law.
- Phil 4:7 : 7 And the peace of God, which is deeper than all knowledge, will keep your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.
- 1 Tim 6:11 : 11 But you, O man of God, keep yourself from these things, and go after righteousness, religion, faith, love, a quiet mind, gentle behaviour.
- Jas 1:21 : 21 For this reason, putting away all dirty behaviour and the overweight of evil, take into your souls without pride the word which, being planted there, is able to give you salvation.
- Jas 3:13 : 13 Who has wisdom and good sense among you? let him make his works clear by a life of gentle wisdom.
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5 Happy are the gentle: for the earth will be their heritage.
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7 Take your rest in the Lord, waiting quietly for him; do not be angry because of the man who does well in his evil ways, and gives effect to his bad designs.
8 Put an end to your wrath and be no longer bitter; do not give way to angry feeling which is a cause of sin.
9 For the evil-doers will be cut off: but those who have faith in the Lord will have the earth for their heritage.
10 For in a short time the evil-doer will be gone: you will go searching for his place, and it will not be there.
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29 The upright will have the earth for their heritage, and will go on living there for ever.
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26 The poor will have a feast of good things: those who make search for the Lord will give him praise: your heart will have life for ever.
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13 His soul will be full of good things, and his seed will have the earth for its heritage.
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19 And the poor will have their joy in the Lord increased, and those in need will be glad in the Holy One of Israel.
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12 The sinner has evil designs against the upright, lifting up the voice of wrath against him.
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22 Those who have his blessing will have the earth for their heritage; but those who are cursed by him will be cut off.
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9 He will be an upright guide to the poor in spirit: he will make his way clear to them.
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34 Be waiting for the Lord, and keep his way; and you will be lifted up, and have the land for your heritage: when the evil-doers are cut off, you will see it.
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3 May the mountains give peace to the people, and the hills righteousness.
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1 <Of David.> Do not be angry because of the wrongdoers, or have envy of the workers of evil.
2 For they will quickly be cut down like grass, and become dry like the green plants.
3 Have faith in the Lord, and do good; be at rest in the land, and go after righteousness.
4 So will your delight be in the Lord, and he will give you your heart's desires.
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17 And the work of righteousness will be peace; and the effect of an upright rule will be to take away fear for ever.
18 And my people will be living in peace, in houses where there is no fear, and in quiet resting-places.
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7 In his days may the upright do well, living in peace as long as there is a moon in heaven.
8 Let his kingdom be from sea to sea, from the River to the ends of the earth.
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6 The Lord gives help to the poor in spirit; but he sends sinners down in shame.
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4 But he will do right in the cause of the poor, and give wise decisions for those in the land who are in need; and the rod of his mouth will come down on the cruel, and with the breath of his lips he will put an end to the evil-doer.
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8 For it was the man with power who had the land, and the man with an honoured name who was living in it.
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32 The poor will see it and be glad: you who are lovers of God, let your hearts have life.
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30 The upright man will never be moved, but evil-doers will not have a safe resting-place in the land.
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17 There the passions of the evil are over, and those whose strength has come to an end have rest.
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18 And the fruit of righteousness is planted in peace for those who make peace.
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16 The little which the good man has is better than the wealth of evil-doers.
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9 Happy are the peacemakers: for they will be named sons of God.
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4 For the Lord has pleasure in his people: he gives the poor in spirit a crown of salvation.
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18 The days of the upright are numbered by the Lord, and their heritage will be for ever.
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7 All the earth is at rest and is quiet: they are bursting into song.
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10 The sinner will see it with grief; he will be wasted away with envy; the desire of the evil-doers will come to nothing.
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37 Give attention to the good man, and take note of the upright; because the end of that man is peace.
38 But as for the sinners, they will be cut off together; the end of the wrongdoers is destruction.
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37 And there is no sound in the fields of peace, because of the burning wrath of the Lord.
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2 My soul will say great things of the Lord: the poor in spirit will have knowledge of it and be glad.
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3 Make search for the Lord, all you quiet ones of the earth, who have done what is right in his eyes; make search for righteousness and a quiet heart: it may be that you will be safely covered in the day of the Lord's wrath.
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21 For the upright will be living in the land, and the good will have it for their heritage.
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7 Happy are those who have mercy: for they will be given mercy.
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9 When God took his place as judge, for the salvation of the poor on the earth. (Selah.)
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2 His seed will be strong on the earth; blessings will be on the generation of the upright.
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16 May there be wide-stretching fields of grain in the land, shaking on the top of the mountains, full of fruit like Lebanon: may its stems be unnumbered like the grass of the earth.
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17 And he has given them their heritage, and by his hand it has been measured out to them: it will be theirs for ever, their resting-place from generation to generation.
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17 Lord, you have given ear to the prayer of the poor: you will make strong their hearts, you will give them a hearing:
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6 And I will give you peace in the land, and you will take your rest and no one will give you cause for fear; and I will put an end to all evil beasts in the land, and no sword of war will go through your land.
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20 For they do not say words of peace; in their deceit they are designing evil things against the quiet ones in the land.