Good News Translation GNT
World English Bible WEB
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 man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;
2 Instead, they find joy in obeying the Law of the Lord, and they study it day and night.
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but his delight is in the LORD’s law. On his law he meditates 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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He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that produces its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.
4 But evil people are not like this at all; they are like straw that the wind blows away.
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The wicked are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.
5 Sinners will be condemned by God and kept apart from God's own people.
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Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation 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 knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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