Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

How blessed are those who keep justice,
Who practice righteousness at all times!

King James Version

Blessed are they that keep judgment, and he that doeth righteousness at all times.

Holman Bible

How happy are those who uphold justice,
who practice righteousness at all times.

International Standard Version

How happy are those who enforce justice, who live righteously all the time.

A Conservative Version

Blessed are those who keep justice, and he who does righteousness at all times.

American Standard Version

Blessed are they that keep justice, And he that doeth righteousness at all times.

Amplified


Blessed are those who observe justice [by honoring God’s precepts],
Who practice righteousness at all times.

Bible in Basic English

Happy are they whose decisions are upright, and he who does righteousness at all times.

Darby Translation

Blessed are they that keep justice, and he that doeth righteousness at all times.

Julia Smith Translation

Happy they watching judgment, doing justice in all time.

King James 2000

Blessed are they that keep justice, and he that does righteousness at all times.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Blessed are [those who] observe justice, [he who] does righteousness at all times.

Modern King James verseion

Blessed are those who keep judgment, he who does righteousness at all times.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Blessed are they that always keep judgment, and do righteousness.

NET Bible

How blessed are those who promote justice, and do what is right all the time!

New Heart English Bible

Blessed are those who uphold justice, who practice righteousness at all times.

The Emphasized Bible

How happy! They who observe justice, He that executeth righteousness at all times.

Webster

Blessed are they that keep judgment, and he that doeth righteousness at all times.

World English Bible

Blessed are those who keep justice. Blessed is one who does what is right at all times.

Youngs Literal Translation

O the happiness of those keeping judgment, Doing righteousness at all times.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
אשׁר 
'esher 
Usage: 45

שׁמר 
Shamar 
Usage: 468

Context Readings

Praise To Yahweh For His Faithfulness In Israel's History

2 Who can utter the mighty acts of the LORD? Who can show forth all his praise? 3 How blessed are those who keep justice,
Who practice righteousness at all times!
4 Remember me, O LORD, with the favour that thou dost bear unto thy people; O visit me with thy saving health,

Cross References

Psalm 15:2

He that walks in integrity and works righteousness, and speaks the truth in his heart.

Revelation 22:14

Blessed are those who do his commandments that their power and authority might be in the tree of life and they may enter in through the gates into the city.

Galatians 6:9

And let us not be weary in well doing, for in due season we shall reap if we faint not.

James 1:25

But whosoever has looked attentively into the perfect law of liberty and has persevered in it, not being a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, the same shall be blessed in their deed.

Deuteronomy 5:19

Thou shalt not steal.

Deuteronomy 11:1

Therefore, thou shalt love the LORD thy God and keep his charge and his statutes and his rights and his commandments, always.

Psalm 1:1-3

Blessed is the man that does not walk in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stand in the way of sinners, nor sit in the seat of the scornful.

Psalm 84:11-12

For the LORD God is a sun and shield unto us; the LORD will give grace and glory; he will not withhold good from those that walk uprightly.

Psalm 119:1-3

ALEPH. Blessed are those who walk in the perfect way, who walk in the law of the LORD.

Psalm 119:20

My soul is broken from desiring thy judgments at all times.

Psalm 119:44

So shall I keep thy law continually from age to age.

Psalm 119:106

I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep the judgments of thy righteousness.

Psalm 119:112

I have inclined my heart to perform thy statutes always, even unto the end.

Isaiah 56:1-2

Thus saith the LORD, Keep ye judgment, and do righteousness: for my saving health is near to come, and my righteousness to be manifested.

Isaiah 64:5

Thou didst come out to meet him that with rejoicing had worked righteous ness. In thy ways they remembered thee. Behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: thy ways are eternal, and we shall be saved.

Jeremiah 22:15-16

Shalt thou reign, because thou dost enclose thyself in cedar? did not thy father eat and drink and do judgment and righteousness, and then it was well with him?

Ezekiel 18:21-22

But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he has committed and keep all my statutes and live according to judgment and righteousness, he shall surely live, he shall not die.

Mark 3:35

For whosoever doeth the will of God, the same is my brother and my sister and my mother.

Luke 1:74-75

that he would grant unto us, that without fear delivered out of the hand of our enemies, we might serve him

Luke 6:47-49

Whosoever comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will show you to whom he is like:

Luke 11:28

But he said, Rather, blessed are those that hear the word of God and keep it.

Luke 11:42

But woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs and pass over the judgment and the charity of God; these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

John 13:17

If ye know these things, ye shall be blessed if ye do them.

John 14:21-23

He that has my commandments and keeps them, he it is that loves me; and he that loves me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him and will manifest myself to him.

John 15:14

Ye are my friends if ye do whatsoever I command you.

Acts 24:16

And for this reason do I exercise myself to have always a conscience void of offense toward God and toward men.

Romans 2:7

to those who persevered in well doing, glory and honour and incorruption, to those who seek eternal life;

Revelation 7:15

Therefore, they are before the throne of God and serve him day and night in his temple, and he that is seated on the throne shall dwell among them.

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