Psalms 37:27 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁷Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell for evermore.

Psalms 37:27 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 34:14
Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.
Proverbs 16:6
By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil.
1 John 2:16-17
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. …
1 Thessalonians 5:15
See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men.
Hebrews 13:16
But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 21-33)

These verses are much to the same purport with the Ps. 37:1-20 of this psalm, for it is a subject worthy to be dwelt upon. Observe here, I. What is required of us as the way to our happiness, which we may learn both from the characters here laid down and from the directions here given. If we would be blessed of God, 1. We must make conscience of giving every body his own; for the wicked borrows an…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 27)

27-29. The exhortation is sustained by the assurance of God’s essential rectitude in that providential government which provides perpetual blessings for the good, and perpetual misery for the wicked.