Good News Translation w/ Apocrypha GNTA
New International Version NIV
1 Happy are those who reject the advice of evil people, who do not follow the example of sinners or join those who have no use for God.
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Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers,
2 Instead, they find joy in obeying the Law of the Lord, and they study it day and night.
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but whose delight is in the law of the LORD, and who meditates on his law day and night.
3 They are like trees that grow beside a stream, that bear fruit at the right time, and whose leaves do not dry up. They succeed in everything they do.
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That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither— whatever they do prospers.
4 But evil people are not like this at all; they are like straw that the wind blows away.
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Not so the wicked! They are like chaff that the wind blows away.
5 Sinners will be condemned by God and kept apart from God's own people.
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Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.
6 The righteous are guided and protected by the Lord, but the evil are on the way to their doom.
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For the LORD watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked leads to destruction.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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