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Psalm 37:27-29
New Catholic Bible
Psalm 37:27-29
New Catholic Bible
27 If you shun evil and do good,
you will dwell in the land forever.
28 For the Lord loves the just,[a]
and he will not forsake his faithful ones.
Those who follow evil paths will be destroyed,
and the children of the wicked will be cut off,
29 whereas the righteous will inherit the land
and dwell in it forever.[b]
Footnotes
- Psalm 37:28 The psalmist insists that the Lord loves the just (see Prov 2:8) who are his faithful ones, and he will never forsake them. Hence, Paul could say with complete confidence: “[Nothing] will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Rom 8:38f).
- Psalm 37:29 The righteous will inherit the land and dwell in it forever through their descendants (see Mt 5:5).
