Psalm 125:4 {124:4}
Good News Translation
LORD, do good to those who are good, to those who obey your commands.

New Revised Standard Version
Do good, O LORD, to those who are good, and to those who are upright in their hearts.

Contemporary English Version
Let's ask the LORD to be kind to everyone who is good and completely obeys him.

New American Bible
Do good, LORD, to the good, to those who are upright of heart.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Do good, O Lord, to those that are good, and to the upright of heart.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Do good, O Lord, to those that are good, and to the upright of heart.

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Psalm 41:1-3 Unto the end, a psalm for David himself. [2] Blessed is he that understandeth concerning the needy and the poor: the Lord will deliver him in the evil day. . . .

Psalm 51:18 Deal favourably, O Lord, in thy good will with Sion; that the walls of Jerusalem may be built up.

Psalm 73:1 A psalm for Asaph. How good is God to Israel, to them that are of a right heart!

Isaiah 58:10,11 When thou shalt pour out thy soul to the hungry, and shalt satisfy the afflicted soul, then shall thy light rise up in darkness, and thy darkness shall be as the noonday. . . .

Hebrews 6:10 For God is not unjust, that he should forget your work and the love which you have shewn in his name, you who have ministered and do minister to the saints.

1 John 3:17-24 He that hath the substance of this world and shall see his brother in need and shall shut up his bowels from him: how doth the charity of God abide in him? . . .

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Psalm 32:2 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord hath not imputed sin, and in whose spirit there is no guile.

Psalm 84:11 For God loveth mercy and truth: the Lord will give grace and glory.

Psalm 119:80 Let my heart be undefiled in thy justifications, that I may not be confounded.

Lamentations 3:25 Teth. The Lord is good to them that hope in him, to the soul that seeketh him.

John 1:47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him and he saith of him: Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no guile.

Revelation 14:5 And in their mouth there was found no lie: for they are without spot before the throne of God.

Context
The LORD Surrounds His People
3For the Lord will not leave the rod of sinners upon the lot of the just: that the just may not stretch forth their hands to iniquity. 4Do good, O Lord, to those that are good, and to the upright of heart.5But such as turn aside into bonds, the Lord shall lead out with the workers of iniquity: peace upon Israel.…
Cross References
Psalm 7:10
Is my help from the Lord; who saveth the upright of heart.

Psalm 11:2
In the Lord I put my trust: how then do you say to my soul: Get thee away from hence to the mountain, like a sparrow.

Psalm 32:11
Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, ye just, and glory, all ye right of heart.

Psalm 36:10
Extend thy mercy to them that know thee, and thy justice to them that are right in heart.

Psalm 94:15
Until justice be turned into judgment: and they that are near it are all the upright in heart.

Psalm 119:68
Thou art good; and in thy goodness teach me thy justifications.

Psalm 125:3
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