For you are not a God who is pleased with wickedness;
    with you, evil people(A) are not welcome.

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

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The Lord examines the righteous,(A)
    but the wicked, those who love violence,
    he hates with a passion.(B)

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The Lord trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.

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Warning and Encouragement

14 Make every effort to live in peace with everyone(A) and to be holy;(B) without holiness no one will see the Lord.(C)

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

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13 Surely the righteous will praise your name,(A)
    and the upright will live(B) in your presence.(C)

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

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21 When you did these things and I kept silent,(A)
    you thought I was exactly[a] like you.
But I now arraign(B) you
    and set my accusations(C) before you.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 50:21 Or thought the ‘I am’ was

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.

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27 Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful,(A) but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.(B)

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27 And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.

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Breaking Covenant Through Injustice

17 You have wearied(A) the Lord with your words.

“How have we wearied him?” you ask.(B)

By saying, “All who do evil are good in the eyes of the Lord, and he is pleased(C) with them” or “Where is the God of justice?(D)

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17 Ye have wearied the Lord with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When 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 judgment?

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13 Your eyes are too pure(A) to look on evil;
    you cannot tolerate wrongdoing.(B)
Why then do you tolerate(C) the treacherous?(D)
    Why are you silent while the wicked
    swallow up those more righteous than themselves?(E)

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13 Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he?

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15 proclaiming, “The Lord is upright;
    he is my Rock, and there is no wickedness in him.(A)

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15 To shew that the Lord is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

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13 But in keeping with his promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth,(A) where righteousness dwells.

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

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No one who practices deceit
    will dwell in my house;
no one who speaks falsely
    will stand in my presence.

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He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.

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20 Can a corrupt throne(A) be allied with you—
    a throne that brings on misery by its decrees?(B)

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20 Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?

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23 The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God(A) gives it light,(B) and the Lamb(C) is its lamp.

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23 And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.

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