Psalms 15: The Character That Dwells with God

A short checklist of what it means to walk uprightly.

Psalms 15: Who May Dwell With God?

Following the hope expressed at the end of Psalms 14, this chapter opens with a direct question: who may abide in God's tabernacle and dwell on His holy hill? The rest of the psalm answers with a concise list of honest, upright conduct.


(大衛的 詩。)耶和華啊,誰 能寄居 你的帳幕?誰 能住 在你的聖 山?

就是行為 正直、做事 公義、心裡 說 實話的人。

他不 以 舌頭 讒謗人,不 惡 待 朋友,也不 隨夥毀謗 鄰里。

他眼中 藐視 匪類,卻尊重 那敬畏 耶和華的人。他發了誓,雖然自己吃虧 也不 更改。

他不 放 債 取利,不 受 賄賂 以害 無辜。行 這些事 的人必永 不 動搖。

David names refusing slander, keeping promises even when costly, and lending without usury as marks of such a person, an ideal expanded in <a href="/bible/chiun/psalms/chapter-24/3">Psalms 24:3-5</a>, closing with the promise that one who does these things shall never be moved, before <a href="/bible/chiun/psalms/chapter-16">Psalms 16</a>.