A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked person.
Parallel translations
- WEB A perverse heart will be far from me. I will have nothing to do with evil.
- BSB A perverse heart shall depart from me; I will know nothing of evil.
- NKJV A perverse heart shall depart from me; I will not know wickedness.
- NASB A perverse heart shall leave me; I will know no evil.
- NLT I will reject perverse ideas and stay away from every evil.
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Quick answer
David puts away a perverse heart and refuses to know evil. He distances himself from all crookedness.
Overview
The king resolves to keep a crooked heart far from him and to have nothing to do with evil. Inner integrity governs his outward associations and conduct. Such purity of heart is what God desires and what Christ both embodies and works in His people (Matthew 5:8).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 12
- Prov 11:20They that are of a froward heart are abomination to the LORD: but such as are upright in their way are his delight.
- 2 Cor 6:14–16Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
- Prov 9:6Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
- Prov 8:13The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
- Ps 119:115Depart from me, ye evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God.
- Prov 22:24Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:
- Matt 7:23And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
- 2 Tim 2:19Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.
- Prov 3:32For the froward is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous.
- Ps 6:8Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for the LORD hath heard the voice of my weeping.
- Prov 2:12–15To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;
- 2 Cor 11:33And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.
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