Psalm 5:4 {5}
Good News Translation
You are not a God who is pleased with wrongdoing; you allow no evil in your presence.

New Revised Standard Version
For you are not a God who delights in wickedness; evil will not sojourn with you.

Contemporary English Version
You are not the kind of God who is pleased with evil. Sinners can't stay with you.

New American Bible
You are not a god who delights in evil; no wicked person finds refuge with you;

Douay-Rheims Bible
In the morning I will stand before thee, and I will see: because thou art not a God that willest iniquity.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

In the morning I will stand before thee, and I will see: because thou art not a God that willest iniquity.

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Psalm 50:21 These things hast thou done, and I was silent. Thou thoughtest unjustly that I should be like to thee: but I will reprove thee, and set before thy face.

1 Chronicles 29:17 I know my God that thou provest hearts, and lovest simplicity, wherefore I also in the simplicity of my heart, have joyfully offered all these things: and I have seen with great joy thy people, which are here present, offer thee their offerings.

Habakkuk 1:13 Thy eyes are too pure to behold evil, and thou canst not look on iniquity. Why lookest thou upon them that do unjust things, and holdest thy peace when the wicked devoureth the man that is more just than himself?

Malachi 2:17 You have wearied the Lord with your words, and you said: Wherein have we wearied him? In that you say: Every one that doth evil, is good in the sight of the Lord, and such please him: or surely where is the God of judgment?

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Psalm 94:20 Doth the seat of iniquity stick to thee, who framest labour in commandment?

Psalm 101:7 He that worketh pride shall not dwell in the midst of my house: he that speaketh unjust things did not prosper before my eyes.

Psalm 140:13 But as for the just, they shall give glory to thy name: and the upright shall dwell with thy countenance.

John 14:23 Jesus answered and said to him: If any one love me, he will keep my word. And my Father will love him and we will come to him and will make our abode with him.

Hebrews 12:14 Follow peace with all men and holiness: without which no man shall see God.

2 Peter 3:13 But we look for new heavens and a new earth according to his promises, in which justice dwelleth.

Revelation 21:23,27 And the city hath no need of the sun, nor of the moon, to shine in it. For the glory of God hath enlightened it: and the Lamb is the lamp thereof. . . .

Context
Give Ear to My Words
3For to thee will I pray: O Lord, in the morning thou shalt hear my voice. 4In the morning I will stand before thee, and I will see: because thou art not a God that willest iniquity.5Neither shall the wicked dwell near thee: nor shall the unjust abide before thy eyes.…
Cross References
Psalm 11:5
The Lord is in his holy temple, the Lord's throne is in heaven. His eyes look on the poor man: his eyelids examine the sons of men.

Psalm 34:16
But the countenance of the Lord is against them that do evil things: to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

Psalm 92:15
That they may shew, That the Lord our God is righteous, and there is no iniquity in him.

Psalm 5:3
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