Psalms 37:28

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

For the LORD promotes justice, and never abandons his faithful followers. They are permanently secure, but the children of evil men are wiped out.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 21:10 : 10 You destroy their offspring from the earth, their descendants from among the human race.
  • Prov 2:22 : 22 but the wicked will be removed from the land, and the treacherous will be torn away from it.
  • Ps 11:7 : 7 Certainly the LORD is just; he rewards godly deeds; the upright will experience his favor.
  • Isa 59:21 : 21 “As for me, this is my promise to them,” says the LORD.“My Spirit, who is upon you, and my words, which I have placed in your mouth, will not depart from your mouth or from the mouths of your children and descendants from this time forward,” says the LORD.
  • Isa 61:8 : 8 For I, the LORD, love justice and hate robbery and sin. I will repay them because of my faithfulness; I will make a permanent covenant with them.
  • Jer 9:24 : 24 If people want to boast, they should boast about this: They should boast that they understand and know me. They should boast that they know and understand that I, the LORD, act out of faithfulness, fairness, and justice in the earth and that I desire people to do these things,” says the LORD.
  • Jer 32:40-41 : 40 I will make a lasting covenant with them that I will never stop doing good to them. I will fill their hearts and minds with respect for me so that they will never again turn away from me. 41 I will take delight in doing good to them. I will faithfully and wholeheartedly plant them firmly in the land.’
  • John 5:24 : 24 “I tell you the solemn truth, the one who hears my message and believes the one who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned, but has crossed over from death to life.
  • John 6:39-40 : 39 Now this is the will of the one who sent me– that I should not lose one person of every one he has given me, but raise them all up at the last day. 40 For this is the will of my Father– for everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him to have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”
  • John 10:28-30 : 28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish; no one will snatch them from my hand. 29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one can snatch them from my Father’s hand. 30 The Father and I are one.”
  • John 15:9 : 9 “Just as the Father has loved me, I have also loved you; remain in my love.
  • 1 Pet 1:5 : 5 who by God’s power are protected through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
  • 1 John 2:19 : 19 They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us, because if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But they went out from us to demonstrate that all of them do not belong to us.
  • Jude 1:1 : 1 ¶ Salutation From Jude, a slave of Jesus Christ and brother of James, to those who are called, wrapped in the love of God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ.
  • Isa 14:20-21 : 20 You will not be buried with them, because you destroyed your land and killed your people. The offspring of the wicked will never be mentioned again. 21 Prepare to execute his sons for the sins their ancestors have committed. They must not rise up and take possession of the earth, or fill the surface of the world with cities.”
  • Isa 30:18 : 18 The Lord Will Not Abandon His People For this reason the LORD is ready to show you mercy; he sits on his throne, ready to have compassion on you. Indeed, the LORD is a just God; all who wait for him in faith will be blessed.
  • Exod 20:5 : 5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I, the LORD, your God, am a jealous God, responding to the transgression of fathers by dealing with children to the third and fourth generations of those who reject me,
  • Job 18:19 : 19 He has neither children nor descendants among his people, no survivor in those places he once stayed.
  • Job 27:14 : 14 If his children increase– it is for the sword! His offspring never have enough to eat.
  • Ps 37:25 : 25 I was once young, now I am old. I have never seen a godly man abandoned, or his children forced to search for food.
  • Ps 37:40 : 40 The LORD helps them and rescues them; he rescues them from evil men and delivers them, for they seek his protection.
  • Ps 45:6-7 : 6 Your throne, O God, is permanent. The scepter of your kingdom is a scepter of justice. 7 You love justice and hate evil. For this reason God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of joy, elevating you above your companions.
  • Ps 92:13-15 : 13 Planted in the LORD’s house, they grow in the courts of our God. 14 They bear fruit even when they are old; they are filled with vitality and have many leaves. 15 So they proclaim that the LORD, my protector, is just and never unfair.
  • Ps 99:4 : 4 The king is strong; he loves justice. You ensure that legal decisions will be made fairly; you promote justice and equity in Jacob.

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    29The godly will possess the land and will dwell in it permanently.

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    27Turn away from evil! Do what is right! Then you will enjoy lasting security.

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    10You who love the LORD, hate evil! He protects the lives of his faithful followers; he delivers them from the power of the wicked.

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  • Ps 37:17-18
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    17for evil men will lose their power, but the LORD sustains the godly.

    18The LORD watches over the innocent day by day and they possess a permanent inheritance.

  • Prov 10:30
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    30The righteous will never be moved, but the wicked will not inhabit the land.

  • Ps 94:14-15
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    14Certainly the LORD does not forsake his people; he does not abandon the nation that belongs to him.

    15For justice will prevail, and all the morally upright will be vindicated.

  • Lam 3:31
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    31כ(Kaf) For the Lord will not reject us forever.

  • Ps 37:32-34
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    32Evil men set an ambush for the godly and try to kill them.

    33But the LORD does not surrender the godly, or allow them to be condemned in a court of law.

    34Rely on the LORD! Obey his commands! Then he will permit you to possess the land; you will see the demise of evil men.

  • Ps 31:23
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    23Love the LORD, all you faithful followers of his! The LORD protects those who have integrity, but he pays back in full the one who acts arrogantly.

  • Ps 37:9-10
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    9Wicked men will be wiped out, but those who rely on the LORD are the ones who will possess the land.

    10Evil men will soon disappear; you will stare at the spot where they once were, but they will be gone.

  • Ps 37:38-40
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    38Sinful rebels are totally destroyed; evil men have no future.

    39But the LORD delivers the godly; he protects them in times of trouble.

    40The LORD helps them and rescues them; he rescues them from evil men and delivers them, for they seek his protection.

  • Prov 2:8
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    8to guard the paths of the righteous and to protect the way of his pious ones.

  • Ps 37:22
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    22Surely those favored by the LORD will possess the land, but those rejected by him will be wiped out.

  • Ps 9:7
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    7But the LORD rules forever; he reigns in a just manner.

  • Ps 145:20
    73%

    20The LORD protects all those who love him, but he destroys all the wicked.

  • Ps 33:5
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    5He promotes equity and justice; the LORD’s faithfulness extends throughout the earth.

  • Prov 2:21-22
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    21For the upright will reside in the land, and those with integrity will remain in it,

    22but the wicked will be removed from the land, and the treacherous will be torn away from it.

  • Job 36:6-7
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    6He does not allow the wicked to live, but he gives justice to the poor.

    7He does not take his eyes off the righteous; but with kings on the throne he seats the righteous and exalts them forever.

  • Ps 89:30
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    30If his sons reject my law and disobey my regulations,

  • Ps 129:4
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    4The LORD is just; he cut the ropes of the wicked.”

  • Ps 11:7
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    7Certainly the LORD is just; he rewards godly deeds; the upright will experience his favor.

  • Ps 12:7
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    7You, LORD, will protect them; you will continually shelter each one from these evil people,

  • 1 Sam 2:9
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    9He watches over his holy ones, but the wicked are made speechless in the darkness, for it is not by one’s own strength that one prevails.

  • Ps 1:5-6
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    5For this reason the wicked cannot withstand judgment, nor can sinners join the assembly of the godly.

    6Certainly the LORD guards the way of the godly, but the way of the wicked ends in destruction.

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    16But the LORD opposes evildoers and wipes out all memory of them from the earth.

  • Ps 125:3
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    3Indeed, the scepter of a wicked king will not settle upon the allotted land of the godly. Otherwise the godly might do what is wrong.

  • Prov 15:9
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    9The LORD abhors the way of the wicked, but he will love those who pursue righteousness.

  • Ps 9:18
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    18for the needy are not permanently ignored, the hopes of the oppressed are not forever dashed.

  • Ps 112:6
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    6For he will never be shaken; others will always remember one who is just.

  • Prov 29:14
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    14If a king judges the poor in truth, his throne will be established forever.

  • Ps 37:25
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    25I was once young, now I am old. I have never seen a godly man abandoned, or his children forced to search for food.

  • Ps 138:8
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    8The LORD avenges me. O LORD, your loyal love endures. Do not abandon those whom you have made!

  • Ps 92:7
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    7When the wicked sprout up like grass, and all the evildoers glisten, it is so that they may be annihilated.

  • Prov 10:3
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    3The LORD satisfies the appetite of the righteous, but he thwarts the craving of the wicked.

  • Ps 19:9
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    9The commands to fear the LORD are right and endure forever. The judgments given by the LORD are trustworthy and absolutely just.

  • Ps 89:33
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    33But I will not remove my loyal love from him, nor be unfaithful to my promise.

  • Isa 61:8
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    8For I, the LORD, love justice and hate robbery and sin. I will repay them because of my faithfulness; I will make a permanent covenant with them.

  • Ps 146:9
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    9The LORD protects the resident foreigner; he lifts up the fatherless and the widow, but he opposes the wicked.

  • Ps 103:17
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    17But the LORD continually shows loyal love to his faithful followers, and is faithful to their descendants,