Psalm 5:4 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: Evil shall not sojourn with thee.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: Neither shall evil dwell with thee.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

For You are not a God Who takes pleasure in wickedness; neither will the evil [man] so much as dwell [temporarily] with You.

American Standard Version (1901)

For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: Evil shall not sojourn with thee.

Common English Bible

Because you aren’t a God who enjoys wickedness; evil doesn’t live with you.

Catholic Public Domain Version

For to you, I will pray. In the morning, Lord, you will hear my voice.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

For to thee will I pray: O Lord, in the morning thou shalt hear my voice.

Psalm 5:4 Cross References

1 Chronicles 29:17

I know also, my God, that thou triest the heart, and hast pleasure in uprightness, As for me, in the uprightness of mine heart I have willingly offered all these things: and now have I seen with joy thy people, which are present here, to offer willingly unto thee.

Psalm 101:7

He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: He that speaketh falsehood shall not be established before mine eyes.

Psalm 11:5

The LORD trieth the righteous: But the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.

Psalm 140:13

Surely the righteous shall give thanks unto thy name: The upright shall dwell in thy presence.

Psalm 50:21

These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: But I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.

Psalm 63:2

So have I looked upon thee in the sanctuary, To see thy power and thy glory.

Psalm 88:14

LORD, why castest thou off my soul? Why hidest thou thy face from me?

Psalm 92:15

To shew that the LORD is upright; He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

Psalm 94:20

Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with thee, Which frameth mischief by statute?

Habakkuk 1:13

Thou that art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and that canst not look on perverseness, wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy peace when the wicked swalloweth up the man that is more righteous than he;

Malachi 2:17

Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? In that ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delighteth in them; or where is the God of judgement?

John 14:23

Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my word: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

Hebrews 12:14

Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man shall see the Lord:

2 Peter 3:13

But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.

Revelation 21:23

And the city hath no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine upon it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the lamp thereof is the Lamb.

Revelation 21:27

and there shall in no wise enter into it anything unclean, or he that maketh an abomination and a lie: but only they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.