Psalm 1:1

Bible in Basic English 1965

Happy is the man who does not go in the company of sinners, or take his place in the way of evil-doers, or in the seat of those who do not give honour to the Lord.

Cross References

Genesis 49:6

Take no part in their secrets, O my soul; keep far away, O my heart, from their meetings; for in their wrath they put men to death, and for their pleasure even oxen were wounded.

Genesis 5:24

And Enoch went on in God's ways: and he was not seen again, for God took him.

1 Kings 16:31

And as if copying the evil ways of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, was a small thing for him, he took as his wife Jezebel, daughter of Ethbaal, king of Zidon, and became a servant and worshipper of Baal.

2 Chronicles 22:3

He went in the ways of the family of Ahab, for his mother was his teacher in evil-doing.

Job 10:3

What profit is it to you to be cruel, to give up the work of your hands, looking kindly on the design of evil-doers?

Job 21:16

Truly, is not their well-being in their power? The purpose of the evil-doers is far from me.

Job 31:5

If I have gone in false ways, or my foot has been quick in working deceit;

Psalm 1:6

Because the Lord sees the way of the upright, but the end of the sinner is destruction.

Psalm 106:3

Happy are they whose decisions are upright, and he who does righteousness at all times.

Psalm 112:1

Let the Lord be praised. Happy is the man who gives honour to the Lord, and has great delight in his laws.

Psalm 119:115

Go far from me, you evil-doers; so that I may keep the teachings of my God.

Psalm 144:15

Happy is the nation whose ways are so ordered: yes, happy is the nation whose God is the Lord.

Psalm 146:5

Happy is the man who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God:

Psalm 146:9

The Lord takes care of those who are in a strange land; he gives help to the widow and to the child who has no father; but he sends destruction on the way of sinners.

Psalm 2:12

For fear that he may be angry, causing destruction to come on you, because he is quickly moved to wrath. Happy are all those who put their faith in him.

Psalm 26:12

I have a safe resting-place for my feet; I will give praise to the Lord in the meetings of the people.

Psalm 34:8

By experience you will see that the Lord is good; happy is the man who has faith in him.

Psalm 36:4

He gives thought to evil on his bed; he takes a way which is not good; he is not a hater of evil.

Psalm 64:2

Keep me safe from the secret purpose of wrongdoers; from the band of the workers of evil;

Psalm 81:12

So I gave them up to the desires of their hearts; that they might go after their evil purposes.

Psalm 84:12

O Lord of armies, happy is the man whose hope is in you.

Proverbs 1:15

My son, do not go with them; keep your feet from their ways:

Proverbs 1:22

How long, you simple ones, will foolish things be dear to you? and pride a delight to the haters of authority? how long will the foolish go on hating knowledge?

Proverbs 13:15

Wise behaviour gets approval, but the way of the false is their destruction.

Proverbs 13:20

Go with wise men and be wise: but he who keeps company with the foolish will be broken.

Proverbs 19:29

Rods are being made ready for the man of pride, and blows for the back of the foolish.

Proverbs 2:12

Giving you salvation from the evil man, from those whose words are false;

Proverbs 3:34

He makes sport of the men of pride, but he gives grace to the gentle-hearted.

Proverbs 4:19

The way of sinners is dark; they see not the cause of their fall.

Proverbs 9:12

If you are wise, you are wise for yourself; if your heart is full of pride, you only will have the pain of it.

Jeremiah 15:17

I did not take my seat among the band of those who are glad, and I had no joy; I kept by myself because of your hand; for you have made me full of wrath.

Jeremiah 17:7

A blessing is on the man who puts his faith in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is.

Ezekiel 20:18

And I said to their children in the waste land, Do not be guided by the rules of your fathers or keep their orders or make yourselves unclean with their images:

Matthew 16:17

And Jesus made answer and said to him, A blessing on you, Simon Bar-jonah: because this knowledge has not come to you from flesh and blood, but from my Father in heaven.

Luke 11:28

But he said, More happy are they who give hearing to the word of God and keep it.

Luke 23:51

This man went to Pilate and made a request for the body of Jesus.

John 13:17

If these things are clear to you, happy are you if you do them.

John 20:29

Jesus said to him, Because you have seen me you have belief: a blessing will be on those who have belief though they have not seen me!

Romans 5:2

Through whom, in the same way, we have been able by faith to come to this grace in which we now are; and let us have joy in hope of the glory of God.

Ephesians 6:13

For this reason take up all the arms of God, so that you may be able to be strong in the evil day, and, having done all, to keep your place.

Deuteronomy 14:6

Any beast which has a division in the horn of its foot and whose food comes back into its mouth to be crushed again, may be used for food.

Deuteronomy 33:29

Happy are you, O Israel: who is like you, a people whose saviour is the Lord, whose help is your cover, whose sword is your strength! All those who are against you will put themselves under your rule, and your feet will be planted on their high places.

1 Peter 4:3

Because for long enough, in times past, we have been living after the way of the Gentiles, given up to the desires of the flesh, to drinking and feasting and loose behaviour and unclean worship of images;

Revelation 22:14

A blessing on those whose robes are washed, so that they may have a right to the tree of life, and may go in by the doors into the town.