Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
For you [are] not a God [who] desires wickedness. Evil cannot dwell with you.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee.
Holman Bible
evil cannot dwell with You.
International Standard Version
Indeed, you aren't a God who delights in wickedness; evil will never dwell with you.
A Conservative Version
For thou are not a God who has pleasure in wickedness. Evil shall not sojourn with thee.
American Standard Version
For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: Evil shall not sojourn with thee.
Amplified
For You are not a God who takes pleasure in wickedness;
No evil [person] dwells with You.
Bible in Basic English
For you are not a God who takes pleasure in wrongdoing; there is no evil with you.
Darby Translation
For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness; evil shall not sojourn with thee.
Julia Smith Translation
For thou not a God delighting in injustice: and evil shall not dwell with thee.
King James 2000
For you are not a God that has pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with you.
Modern King James verseion
For You are not a God that enjoys wickedness; nor shall evil dwell with You.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For thou art the God that hast no pleasure in wickedness; neither shall any evil dwell with thee.
NET Bible
Certainly you are not a God who approves of evil; evil people cannot dwell with you.
New Heart English Bible
For you are not a God who has pleasure in wickedness. Evil can't live with you.
The Emphasized Bible
For, not a GOD finding pleasure in lawlessness, art thou, and wrong can be no guest of thine:
Webster
For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee.
World English Bible
For you are not a God who has pleasure in wickedness. Evil can't live with you.
Youngs Literal Translation
For not a God desiring wickedness art Thou, Evil inhabiteth Thee not.
Themes
Error » Known to God » Hateful to God
Evil » Evil not dwelling with God
Iniquity » God hating iniquity
References
Easton
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 5:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Refuge Of The Righteous
3 O Yahweh, in [the] morning you will hear my voice. In [the] morning I will set forth [my case] to you and I will watch. 4 For you [are] not a God [who] desires wickedness. Evil cannot dwell with you. 5 The boastful do not stand before your eyes. You hate all evildoers.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
1 Chronicles 29:17
And I know, my God, that you yourself test the heart and are pleased with uprightness. I, in the uprightness of my heart, have willingly offered all these [things], and now I have seen your people who are found here willingly offer to you.
Psalm 11:5
Yahweh tests [the] righteous, but [the] wicked and [the] lover of violence his soul hates.
Psalm 50:21
These [things] you have done, and I have been silent; You imagined that I was just like you. I will rebuke you and present [an argument] before your eyes.
Psalm 92:15
to declare that Yahweh [is] upright. [He is] my rock, and [there is] no injustice in him.
Psalm 94:20
Can there be allied with you a throne of destruction, one that forms trouble based on statute?
Psalm 101:7
There will not live in the midst of my house a worker of deceit. One who speaks lies will not remain before my eyes.
Psalm 140:13
Surely [the] righteous will give thanks to your name; [the] upright will dwell in your presence.
Habakkuk 1:13
Your eyes [are] too pure to see evil, and you are not able to look at wrongdoing. Why do you look at the treacherous? [Why] are you silent when the wicked swallows up [someone] more righteous than him?
Malachi 2:17
You have wearied Yahweh with your words, but you ask, "With what have we wearied [him]?" [You have done so] {when you say}, "Everyone who does evil [is] good in the {sight} of Yahweh, and in them he delights," or "Where [is] the God of justice?"
John 14:23
Jesus answered and said to him, "If anyone loves me he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and {will take up residence with him}.
Hebrews 12:14
Pursue peace with everyone, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord.
2 Peter 3:13
But according to his promise, we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness resides.
Revelation 21:23
And the city has no need of the sun or of the moon, that they shine on it, for the glory of God illuminates it, and its lamp [is] the Lamb.
Revelation 21:27
And every unclean thing and one who practices detestable things and falsehood will never enter into it, except those who are written in the book of life of the Lamb.