Verse 4

For you are not a God who takes pleasure in wickedness; nor shall evil dwell with you.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Chr 29:17 : 17 I know also, my God, that You test the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things: and now I have seen with joy Your people, who are present here, to offer willingly to You.
  • Ps 11:5 : 5 The LORD tests the righteous, but the wicked and the one who loves violence His soul hates.
  • Ps 50:21 : 21 These things you have done, and I kept silence; you thought that I was altogether like you: but I will reprove you, and set them in order before your eyes.
  • Ps 92:15 : 15 To show that the LORD is upright; he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
  • Ps 94:20 : 20 Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with you, which frames mischief by a law?
  • Ps 101:7 : 7 He who works deceit shall not dwell within my house: he who tells lies shall not remain in my presence.
  • Ps 140:13 : 13 Surely the righteous shall give thanks to your name; the upright shall dwell in your presence.
  • Hab 1:13 : 13 You are of purer eyes than to behold evil and cannot look on wickedness. Why do You look on those who deal treacherously and hold Your tongue when the wicked devours a man more righteous than he?
  • Mal 2:17 : 17 You have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet you say, How have we wearied him? When you say, Everyone that does evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delights in them; or, Where is the God of justice?
  • John 14:23 : 23 Jesus answered and said to him, If anyone loves me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.
  • Heb 12:14 : 14 Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord:
  • 2 Pet 3:13 : 13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, where righteousness dwells.
  • Rev 21:23 : 23 And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it; for the glory of God illuminated it, and the Lamb is its light.
  • Rev 21:27 : 27 And nothing unclean shall ever enter into it, nor anyone who practices abomination or a lie: but only those who are written in the Lamb's book of life.