Psalm 5:4

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

You are not the kind of God who is pleased with evil. Sinners can't stay with you.

Cross References

1 Chronicles 29:17

But we are happy, because everyone has voluntarily given you these things. You know what is in everyone's heart, and you are pleased when people are honest.

Psalm 101:7

No one who cheats or lies will have a position in my royal court.

Psalm 11:5

The LORD tests honest people, but despises those who are cruel and love violence.

Psalm 140:13

Your people will praise you and will live with you because they do right.

Psalm 50:21

When you did all this, I didn't say a word, and you thought, “God is just like us!” But now I will accuse you.

Psalm 63:2

I have seen your power and your glory in the place of worship.

Psalm 88:14

Why do you reject me? Why do you turn from me?

Psalm 92:15

And they will say about you, “The LORD always does right! God is our mighty rock.”

Psalm 94:20

But you are opposed to dishonest lawmakers

Habakkuk 1:13

But you can't stand sin or wrong. So don't sit by in silence while they gobble up people who are better than they are.

Malachi 2:17

You have worn out the LORD with your words. And yet, you ask, “How did we do that?” You did it by saying, “The LORD is pleased with evil and doesn't care about justice.”

John 14:23

Jesus replied: If anyone loves me, they will obey me. Then my Father will love them, and we will come to them and live in them.

Hebrews 12:14

Try to live at peace with everyone! Live a clean life. If you don't, you will never see the Lord.

2 Peter 3:13

But God has promised us a new heaven and a new earth, where justice will rule. We are really looking forward to that!

Revelation 21:23

And the city did not need the sun or the moon. The glory of God was shining on it, and the Lamb was its light.

Revelation 21:27

But nothing unworthy will be allowed to enter. No one who is dirty-minded or who tells lies will be there. Only those whose names are written in the Lamb's book of life will be in the city.