Psalm 5:4 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

⁴ For you are not a God who delights in wickedness; evil will not sojourn with you.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: Neither shall evil dwell with thee.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ 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)

⁴ For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: Evil shall not sojourn with thee.

Common English Bible

⁴ Because you aren’t a God who enjoys wickedness; evil doesn’t live with you.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ For to you, I will pray. In the morning, Lord, you will hear my voice.

Psalm 5:4 Cross References

1 Chronicles 29:17

I know, my God, that you search the heart, and take pleasure in uprightness; in the uprightness of my heart I have freely offered all these things, and now I have seen your people, who are present here, offering freely and joyously to you.

Psalm 101:7

No one who practices deceit shall remain in my house; no one who utters lies shall continue in my presence.

Psalm 11:5

The Lord tests the righteous and the wicked, and his soul hates the lover of violence.

Psalm 140:13

Surely the righteous shall give thanks to your name; the upright shall live in your presence.

Psalm 50:21

These things you have done and I have been silent; you thought that I was one just like yourself. But now I rebuke you, and lay the charge before you.

Psalm 63:2

So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary, beholding your power and glory.

Psalm 88:14

O Lord, why do you cast me off? Why do you hide your face from me?

Psalm 92:15

showing that the Lord is upright; he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

Psalm 94:20

Can wicked rulers be allied with you, those who contrive mischief by statute?

Habakkuk 1:13

Your eyes are too pure to behold evil, and you cannot look on wrongdoing; why do you look on the treacherous, and are silent when the wicked swallow those more righteous than they?

Malachi 2:17

You have wearied the Lord with your words. Yet you say, “How have we wearied him?” By saying, “All who do evil are good in the sight of the Lord, and he delights in them.” Or by asking, “Where is the God of justice?”

John 14:23

Jesus answered him, “Those who love me will keep my word, and my Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.

Hebrews 12:14

Pursue peace with everyone, and the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.

2 Peter 3:13

But, in accordance with his promise, we wait for new heavens and a new earth, where righteousness is at home.

Revelation 21:23

And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God is its light, and its lamp is the Lamb.

Revelation 21:27

But nothing unclean will enter it, nor anyone who practices abomination or falsehood, but only those who are written in the Lamb's book of life.