Psalm 37:37 {36:37}
Good News Translation
Notice good people, observe the righteous; peaceful people have descendants,

New Revised Standard Version
Mark the blameless, and behold the upright, for there is posterity for the peaceable.

Contemporary English Version
Think of the bright future waiting for all the families of honest, innocent, and peace-loving people.

New American Bible
Observe the person of integrity and mark the upright; Because there is a future for a man of peace.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Keep innocence, and behold justice: for there are remnants for the peaceable man.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Keep innocence, and behold justice: for there are remnants for the peaceable man.

Job 1:1 There was a man in the land of Hus, whose name was Job, and that man was simple and upright, and fearing God, and avoiding evil.

Job 42:12-17 And the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. And he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses. . . .

Proverbs 14:32 The wicked man shall be driven out in his wickedness: but the just hath hope in his death.

Isaiah 32:17 And the work of justice shall be peace, and the service of justice quietness, and security for ever.

Isaiah 57:2 Let peace come, let him rest in his bed that hath walked in his uprightness.

Luke 2:25-29 And behold there was a man in Jerusalem named Simeon: and this man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel. And the Holy Ghost was in him. . . .

Acts 7:59,60 And they stoned Stephen, invoking and saying: Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. . . .

2 Timothy 4:6-8 For I am even now ready to be sacrificed: and the time of my dissolution is at hand. . . .

2 Peter 1:14 Being assured that the laying away of this my tabernacle is at hand, according as our Lord Jesus Christ also hath signified to me.

Context
Do Not Envy Those who Do Wrong
36And I passed by, and lo, he was not: and I sought him and his place was not found. 37Keep innocence, and behold justice: for there are remnants for the peaceable man.38But the unjust shall be destroyed together: the remnants of the wicked shall perish.…
Cross References
Numbers 6:26
The Lord turn his countenance to thee, and give thee peace.

Numbers 23:10
Who can count the dust of Jacob, and know the number of the stock of Israel? Let my soul die the death of the just, and my last end be like to them.

Psalm 7:10
Is my help from the Lord; who saveth the upright of heart.

Psalm 37:18
The Lord knoweth the days of the undefiled; and their inheritance shall be for ever.

Proverbs 14:32
The wicked man shall be driven out in his wickedness: but the just hath hope in his death.

Isaiah 57:1
The just perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart, and men of mercy are taken away, because there is none that understandeth; for the just man is taken away from before the face of evil.

Isaiah 57:2
Let peace come, let him rest in his bed that hath walked in his uprightness.

Malachi 2:6
The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace, and in equity, and turned many away from iniquity.

Psalm 37:36
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