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Psalms 26:9

Psalms 26:9 is verse 9 of Psalms chapter 26, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

Do not take my soul away with sinners, or my life with men of bloodshed,

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King James Version

Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:

World English Bible

Don’t gather my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloodthirsty men

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Psalms 26:7–11 · Berean Standard Bible

7 to raise my voice in thanksgiving and declare all Your wonderful works.

8 O LORD, I love the house where You dwell, the place where Your glory resides.

9 Do not take my soul away with sinners, or my life with men of bloodshed,

10 in whose hands are wicked schemes, whose right hands are full of bribes.

11 But I will walk with integrity; redeem me and be merciful to me.

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Psalms 28:1

To You, O LORD, I call; be not deaf to me, O my Rock. For if You remain silent, I will be like those descending to the Pit.

Psalms 28:2

Hear my cry for mercy when I call to You for help, when I lift up my hands toward Your holy sanctuary.

Psalms 28:3

Do not drag me away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace to their neighbors while malice is in their hearts.

1 Samuel 25:29

And should someone pursue you and seek your life, then the life of my lord will be bound securely by the LORD your God in the bundle of the living. But He shall fling away the lives of your enemies like stones from a sling.

Malachi 3:18

So you will again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.”

Matthew 24:51

Then he will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Matthew 25:32

All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate the people one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.

Matthew 25:44

And they too will reply, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to You?’

Matthew 25:46

And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

Revelation 22:14

Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by its gates.

Revelation 22:15

But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

Psalms 51:14

Deliver me from bloodguilt, O God, the God of my salvation, and my tongue will sing of Your righteousness.

Psalms 55:23

But You, O God, will bring them down to the Pit of destruction; men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days. But I will trust in You.

Psalms 139:19

O God, that You would slay the wicked— away from me, you bloodthirsty men—

1 Samuel 22:18

So the king ordered Doeg, “You turn and strike down the priests!” And Doeg the Edomite turned and struck down the priests himself. On that day he killed eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod.

1 Samuel 22:19

He also put to the sword Nob, the city of the priests, with its men and women, children and infants, oxen, donkeys, and sheep.

2 Samuel 16:7

And as he yelled curses, Shimei said, “Get out, get out, you worthless man of bloodshed!

2 Samuel 21:1

During the reign of David there was a famine for three successive years, and David sought the face of the LORD. And the LORD said, “It is because of the blood shed by Saul and his family, because he killed the Gibeonites.”

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