Salvation is far from the wicked, for they don’t seek your statutes.
Parallel translations
- KJV Salvation is far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes.
- BSB Salvation is far from the wicked because they do not seek Your statutes.
- NKJV Salvation is far from the wicked, For they do not seek Your statutes.
- NASB Salvation is far from the wicked, For they do not seek Your statutes.
- NLT The wicked are far from rescue, for they do not bother with your decrees.
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Quick answer
Salvation is far from the wicked because they do not seek God's statutes. Rejecting God's Word leaves a person far from deliverance.
Overview
The psalmist observes that the wicked forfeit salvation by their refusal to seek God's ways. Their distance from rescue flows from their distance from God's revealed will. The verse warns that to ignore God's Word is to remain outside the salvation freely offered in Christ to all who seek Him.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 10
- Job 5:4His children are far from safety. They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,
- Eph 2:17–18He came and preached peace to you who were far off and to those who were near.
- Rom 3:11There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God.
- Ps 18:27For you will save the afflicted people, but the haughty eyes you will bring down.
- Ps 10:4The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.
- Isa 46:12Listen to me, you stubborn-hearted, who are far from righteousness!
- Prov 1:7The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
- Isa 57:19I create the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace, to him who is far off and to him who is near,” says Yahweh; “and I will heal them.”
- Luke 16:24He cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue! For I am in anguish in this flame.’
- Job 21:14–15They tell God, ‘Depart from us, for we don’t want to know about your ways.
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The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.
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