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One who walks with integrity, practices righteousness, And speaks truth in his heart.
Psalms 15:2 · New American Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB He who walks blamelessly does what is right, and speaks truth in his heart;
  • KJV He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the 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;
  • 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 28:18Whoever walks blamelessly is kept safe; but one with perverse ways will fall suddenly.
  • Col 3:9Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,
  • Eph 4:25Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.
  • Prov 2:7–8He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity;
  • Ps 34:12–13Who is someone who desires life, and loves many days, that he may see good?
  • 1 Jn 3:7Little children, let no one lead you astray. He who does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
  • Eph 2:10For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.
  • Acts 10:35but in every nation he who fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to him.
  • Zech 8:16–17These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates,
  • 1 Jn 2:6he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.
  • Ps 24:4He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.
  • Mic 2:7Shall it be said, O house of Jacob: “Is Yahweh’s Spirit angry? Are these his doings? Don’t my words do good to him who walks blamelessly?”
  • Heb 11:33who, through faith subdued kingdoms, worked out righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
  • Rev 22:14–15Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.
  • Isa 33:15He who walks righteously, and speaks blamelessly; He who despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil —
  • Gal 2:14But when I saw that they didn’t walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Peter before them all, “If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do?
  • Rom 2:10But glory, honor, and peace go to every man who does good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
  • Ps 84:11For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.
  • Rev 21:8But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
  • 1 Jn 2:29If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.
  • Luke 1:6They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.
  • Isa 63:8For he said, “Surely, they are my people, children who will not deal falsely;” so he became their Savior.

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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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