Want God's blessing and to prosper in all you undertake? Shun the ways of sinners and empty-headed scoffers: instead delight in God's law.
Published November 11th, 2018
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God knows the way of the righteous man, and blesses him so that he prospers in everything he undertakes.
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Psalms 1:1-6
Blessed is the man 1
who a walks not in b the counsel of the wicked,
nor stands in c the way of sinners,
nor d sits in e the seat of f scoffers;
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but his g delight is in the law 1 of the Lord ,
and on his h law he meditates day and night.
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He is like i a tree
planted by j streams of water
that yields its fruit in its season,
and its k leaf does not wither.
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l In all that he does, he prospers.
The wicked are not so,
but are like m chaff that the wind drives away.
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Therefore the wicked n will not stand in the judgment,
nor sinners in o the congregation of the righteous;
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for the Lord p knows q the way of the righteous,
but the way of the wicked will perish.
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