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He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.
Psalms 15:2 · King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB He who walks blamelessly does what is right, and speaks truth in his heart;
  • BSB He who walks with integrity and practices righteousness, who speaks the truth from his heart,
  • NKJV He who walks uprightly, And works righteousness, And speaks the truth in his heart;
  • NASB One who walks with integrity, practices righteousness, And speaks truth in his heart.
  • NLT Those who lead blameless lives and do what is right, speaking the truth from sincere hearts.

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Quick answer

The one who may dwell with God walks blamelessly, does what is right, and speaks truth from the heart. It matters because true fellowship with God shows itself in sincere, righteous living.

Overview

The first answer describes the godly person by integrity of walk, righteous deeds, and inward truthfulness. Genuine fellowship with God is not mere outward ritual but a life conformed to his character from the heart. Such blamelessness finds its perfect expression in Christ, and is worked in believers by his Spirit.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 22

  • Prov 28:18Whoso walketh uprightly shall be saved: but he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.
  • Col 3:9Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;
  • Eph 4:25Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
  • Prov 2:7–8He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.
  • Ps 34:12–13What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?
  • 1 Jn 3:7Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
  • Eph 2:10For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
  • Acts 10:35But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.
  • Zech 8:16–17These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates:
  • 1 Jn 2:6He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.
  • Ps 24:4He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
  • Mic 2:7O thou that art named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the LORD straitened? are these his doings? do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly?
  • Heb 11:33Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
  • Rev 22:14–15Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
  • Isa 33:15He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;
  • Gal 2:14But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?
  • Rom 2:10But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:
  • Ps 84:11For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
  • Rev 21:8But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
  • 1 Jn 2:29If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.
  • Luke 1:6And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
  • Isa 63:8For he said, Surely they are my people, children that will not lie: so he was their Saviour.

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  • VideoBibleProject — Psalms videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

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  • ReferenceInterlinear, lexicon & Strong'sBlue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free

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Christ at the center

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.

How Psalms 15:2 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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