Psalms 37:27

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Be turned from evil, and do good; and your place will be for ever.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 34:14 : 14 Be turned from evil, and do good; make a search for peace, desiring it with all your heart.
  • Ps 102:28 : 28 The children of your servants will have a safe resting-place, and their seed will be ever before you.
  • Prov 16:6 : 6 By mercy and good faith evil-doing is taken away: and by the fear of the Lord men are turned away from evil.
  • Prov 16:17 : 17 The highway of the upright is to be turned away from evil: he who takes care of his way will keep his soul.
  • Isa 1:16-17 : 16 Be washed, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; let there be an end of sinning; 17 Take pleasure in well-doing; let your ways be upright, keep down the cruel, give a right decision for the child who has no father, see to the cause of the widow.
  • 1 Thess 5:15 : 15 Let no one give evil for evil; but ever go after what is good, for one another and for all.
  • 2 Tim 2:19 : 19 But God's strong base is unchanging, having this sign, The Lord has knowledge of those who are his: and, Let everyone by whom the name of the Lord is named be turned away from evil.
  • Titus 2:11-14 : 11 For the grace of God has come, giving salvation to all men, 12 Training us so that, turning away from evil and the desires of this world, we may be living wisely and uprightly in the knowledge of God in this present life; 13 Looking for the glad hope, the revelation of the glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ; 14 Who gave himself for us, so that he might make us free from all wrongdoing, and make for himself a people clean in heart and on fire with good works.
  • Titus 3:8 : 8 This is a true saying; and it is my desire that you may give certain witness about these things, so that those who have had faith in God may give attention to good works. These things are good and of profit to men;
  • Titus 3:14 : 14 And let our people go on with good works for necessary purposes, so that they may not be without fruit.
  • Heb 13:16 : 16 But go on doing good and giving to others, because God is well-pleased with such offerings.
  • Heb 13:21 : 21 Make you full of every good work and ready to do all his desires, working in us whatever is pleasing in his eyes through Jesus Christ; and may the glory be given to him for ever and ever. So be it.
  • 1 John 2:16-17 : 16 Because everything in the world, the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father but of the world. 17 And the world and its desires is coming to an end: but he who does God's pleasure is living for ever.
  • Job 28:28 : 28 And he said to man, Truly the fear of the Lord is wisdom, and to keep from evil is the way to knowledge.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 34:13-14
    2 verses
    84%

    13 Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from words of deceit.

    14 Be turned from evil, and do good; make a search for peace, desiring it with all your heart.

  • 1 Pet 3:10-11
    2 verses
    80%

    10 For it is said, Let the man who has a love of life, desiring to see good days, keep his tongue from evil and his lips from words of deceit:

    11 And let him be turned from evil and do good; searching for peace and going after it with all his heart.

  • Ps 37:28-29
    2 verses
    79%

    28 For the Lord is a lover of righteousness, and takes care of his saints; they will be kept safe for ever; but the seed of the evil-doers will be cut off.

    29 The upright will have the earth for their heritage, and will go on living there for ever.

  • Ps 37:3
    77%

    3 Have faith in the Lord, and do good; be at rest in the land, and go after righteousness.

  • Prov 17:13
    76%

    13 If anyone gives back evil for good, evil will never go away from his house.

  • Ps 125:4
    76%

    4 Do good, O Lord, to those who are good, and to those who are upright in heart.

  • Ps 37:7-10
    4 verses
    75%

    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.

  • Prov 4:27
    75%

    27 Let there be no turning to the right or to the left, keep your feet from evil.

  • Prov 10:30
    75%

    30 The upright man will never be moved, but evil-doers will not have a safe resting-place in the land.

  • Prov 2:20-22
    3 verses
    74%

    20 So that you may go in the way of good men, and keep in the footsteps of the upright.

    21 For the upright will be living in the land, and the good will have it for their heritage.

    22 But sinners will be cut off from the land, and those whose acts are false will be uprooted.

  • Ps 37:26
    74%

    26 All the day he is ready to have mercy and to give; his children are a blessing.

  • Ps 23:6
    74%

    6 Truly, blessing and mercy will be with me all the days of my life; and I will have a place in the house of the Lord all my days.

  • Ps 37:22
    73%

    22 Those who have his blessing will have the earth for their heritage; but those who are cursed by him will be cut off.

  • Jer 25:5
    73%

    5 Saying, Come back now, everyone from his evil way and from the evil of your doings, and keep your place in the land which the Lord has given to you and to your fathers, from times long past even for ever:

  • Ps 37:34
    73%

    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.

  • Amos 5:14
    73%

    14 Go after good and not evil, so that life may be yours: and so the Lord, the God of armies, will be with you, as you say.

  • Ps 119:115
    73%

    115 Go far from me, you evil-doers; so that I may keep the teachings of my God.

  • Prov 16:17
    73%

    17 The highway of the upright is to be turned away from evil: he who takes care of his way will keep his soul.

  • Job 22:18
    73%

    18 Though he made their houses full of good things: but the purpose of the evil-doers is far from me!

  • Prov 3:29
    72%

    29 Do not make evil designs against your neighbour, when he is living with you without fear.

  • Ps 61:7
    72%

    7 May the seat of his authority be before God for ever; may mercy and righteousness keep him safe.

  • Prov 19:23
    72%

    23 The fear of the Lord gives life: and he who has it will have need of nothing; no evil will come his way.

  • Eccl 8:3
    72%

    3 Be not quick to go from before him. Be not fixed in an evil design, because he does whatever is pleasing to him.

  • Ps 112:3
    72%

    3 A store of wealth will be in his house, and his righteousness will be for ever.

  • Ps 37:18
    72%

    18 The days of the upright are numbered by the Lord, and their heritage will be for ever.

  • Prov 4:14-15
    2 verses
    72%

    14 Do not go in the road of sinners, or be walking in the way of evil men.

    15 Keep far from it, do not go near; be turned from it, and go on your way.

  • Ps 121:7
    72%

    7 The Lord will keep you safe from all evil; he will take care of your soul.

  • Ps 37:1
    72%

    1 <Of David.> Do not be angry because of the wrongdoers, or have envy of the workers of evil.

  • Prov 1:33
    72%

    33 But whoever gives ear to me will take his rest safely, living in peace without fear of evil.

  • Ps 34:16
    72%

    16 The face of the Lord is against those who do evil, to take away the memory of them from the earth.

  • Prov 12:21
    72%

    21 No trouble will come to upright men, but sinners will be full of evil.

  • Prov 3:7
    72%

    7 Put no high value on your wisdom: let the fear of the Lord be before you, and keep yourself from evil:

  • Prov 24:19
    71%

    19 Do not be troubled because of evil-doers, or have envy of sinners:

  • Ps 112:6
    71%

    6 He will not ever be moved; the memory of the upright will be living for ever.

  • Ps 92:7
    71%

    7 When the sinners come up like the grass, and all the workers of evil do well for themselves, it is so that their end may be eternal destruction.

  • Prov 24:15
    71%

    15 Do not keep a secret watch, O evil-doer, against the fields of the upright man, or send destruction on his resting-place:

  • Ps 5:4
    71%

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

  • Deut 19:20
    71%

    20 And the rest of the people, hearing of it, will be full of fear, and never again do such evil among you.

  • Ps 97:10
    71%

    10 You who are lovers of the Lord, be haters of evil; he keeps the souls of his saints; he takes them out of the hand of sinners.

  • Eccl 7:18
    71%

    18 It is good to take this in your hand and not to keep your hand from that; he who has the fear of God will be free of the two.

  • Ezek 33:19
    71%

    19 And when the evil man, turning away from his evil-doing, does what is ordered and right, he will get life by it.