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1 Happy are those who don't listen to the wicked, who don't go where sinners go, who don't do what evil people do.
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1 Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers.
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2 They love the Lord's teachings, and they think about those teachings day and night.
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2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night.
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3 They are strong, like a tree planted by a river. The tree produces fruit in season, and its leaves don't die. Everything they do will succeed.
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3 He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers.
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4 But wicked people are not like that. They are like chaff that the wind blows away.
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4 Not so the wicked! They are like chaff that the wind blows away.
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5 So the wicked will not escape God's punishment. Sinners will not worship with God's people.
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5 Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.
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6 This is because the Lord takes care of his people, but the wicked will be destroyed.
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6 For the LORD watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.
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| Scripture taken from the New Century Version. Copyright © 1987, 1988, 1991 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved. (New Century Version Online Bible) |
Scripture quoted by permission. Quotations designated (NIV) are from THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica. All rights reserved worldwide. (New International Version Bible Online) |
