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Psa. 125:4 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Do good, O Lord, unto those that be good, and to them that are upright in their hearts.

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Psa. 41:1‑3• ¹To the chief musician; a psalm of David.{HR}Blessed [is] he that payeth attention to the poor;{HR}In the day of evil Jehovah will deliver him.
²Jehovah will preserve him and keep him alive:{HR}He shall be prospered in the land;{HR}And do not thou give him up to the will of his enemies.
³Jehovah will hold him up on the bed of languishing:{HR}All his bed thou hast turned in his sickness. (Psa. 41:1‑3)

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Psa. 51:18• ¹⁸Do good in thy good pleasure to Zion;{HR}Build the walls of Jerusalem. (Psa. 51:18)

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Psa. 73:1• ¹A psalm of Asaph.{HR}Truly God [is] good to Israel,{HR}To the pure of heart. (Psa. 73:1)

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Isa. 58:10‑11• ¹⁰and [if] thou proffer thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in darkness, and thine obscurity [be] as the noonday:
¹¹and Jehovah will guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make strong thy bones; and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters deceive not. (Isa. 58:10‑11)

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Heb. 6:10• ¹⁰For God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the love which ye showed unto his name, in that ye ministered to his saints and do minister. (Heb. 6:10)

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1 John 3:17‑24• ¹⁷But whoso may have the world's means of living, and behold his brother having need, and shut up his bowels from him, how abideth the love of God in him?
¹⁸Dear children, let us not love with word nor with the tongue, but in deed and truth.
¹⁹And herein we shall know that we are of the truth, and shall persuade our hearts before him,
²⁰that if our heart condemn us, [it is] that God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.
²¹Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, we have boldness toward God,
²²and whatsoever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments, and do the things pleasing in his sight.
²³And this is his commandment, that we believe the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and that we love one another, even as he gave us commandment.
²⁴And he that keepeth his commandments abideth in him, and he in him. And herein we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he gave to us. (1 John 3:17‑24)

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Psa. 32:2• ²Blessed [is] the man to whom Jehovah imputeth not iniquity,{HR}And in his spirit [there is] no guile. (Psa. 32:2)

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Psa. 84:11• ¹¹For a sun and a shield [is] Jehovah God;{HR}Grace and glory will Jehovah give,{HR}No good thing will he withhold from those that walk uprightly. (Psa. 84:11)

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Psa. 119:80• ⁸⁰Let my heart be perfect in thy statutes,{HR}That I be not ashamed. (Psa. 119:80)

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Lam. 3:25• ²⁵Jehovah is good to them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. (Lam. 3:25)

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John 1:47• ⁴⁷Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile. (John 1:47)

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Rev. 14:5• ⁵and in their mouth was found no falsehood; [for] they are blameless. (Rev. 14:5)

• (vv. 4-5) The psalm closes with a prayer to the Lord, based on the known governmental ways of God (see Psa. 18:25-26). The Lord will do good to those who are good and upright in their hearts; while those who “turn aside unto their crooked ways” will at last find themselves in company with “workers of iniquity.” (“Psalm 125” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Do good, O Jehovah, unto the good, and to them that are upright in their hearts.

W. Kelly Translation

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Do good, Jehovah, to the good{HR}And to those upright in their hearts.