Psalms 5:4

World English Bible (2000)

For you are not a God who has pleasure in wickedness. Evil can't live with you.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Chr 29:17 : 17 I know also, my God, that you try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. Now have I seen with joy your people, that are present here, offer willingly to you.
  • Ps 11:5 : 5 Yahweh examines the righteous, but the wicked and him who loves violence his soul hates.
  • Ps 50:21 : 21 You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.
  • Ps 92:15 : 15 to show that Yahweh is upright. He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
  • Ps 94:20 : 20 Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you, which brings about mischief by statute?
  • Ps 101:7 : 7 He who practices deceit won't dwell within my house. He who speaks falsehood won't be established before my eyes.
  • Ps 140:13 : 13 Surely the righteous will give thanks to your name. The upright will dwell in your presence. A Psalm by David.
  • Hab 1:13 : 13 You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously, and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,
  • Mal 2:17 : 17 You have wearied Yahweh with your words. Yet you say, 'How have we wearied him?' In that you say, 'Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of Yahweh, and he delights in them;' or 'Where is the God of justice?'
  • John 14:23 : 23 Jesus answered him, "If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.
  • Heb 12:14 : 14 Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,
  • 2 Pet 3:13 : 13 But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells.
  • Rev 21:23 : 23 The city has no need for the sun, neither of the moon, to shine, for the very glory of God illuminated it, and its lamp is the Lamb.
  • Rev 21:27 : 27 There will in no way enter into it anything profane, or one who causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb's book of life.

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    19 If only you, God, would kill the wicked. Get away from me, you bloodthirsty men!

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