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Psalm 91:10

no evil shall happen to you, neither shall any plague come near your dwelling.

8You will only look with your eyes, and see the recompense of the wicked.
9Because you have made the LORD your refuge, and the Most High your dwelling place,
10no evil shall happen to you, neither shall any plague come near your dwelling.
11For he will put his angels in charge of you, to guard you in all your ways.
12They will bear you up in their hands, so that you won’t dash your foot against a stone.
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Notice

The promise that plague will not approach your dwelling brings God’s protection close to home, where fear for those you love can feel most sharp.

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Where else Scripture says this

8 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Proverbs 12:21No mischief shall happen to the righteous, but the wicked shall be filled with evil.Both passages speak in strong terms of protection from harm, with the surrounding psalm and the proverb contrasting the fate of the wicked.
Psalm 121:7The LORD will keep you from all evil. He will keep your soul.Both psalms promise protection from evil, with Psalm 91 naming the dwelling and Psalm 121 naming the soul.
Deuteronomy 7:15The LORD will take away from you all sickness; and he will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you know, on you, but will lay them on all those who …Both passages describe God’s protection from disease, with Deuteronomy naming the diseases of Egypt and Psalm 91 naming plague.
Romans 8:25But if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for it with patience.The connection is limited to future expectation: Psalm 91 promises protection, while Romans describes patient waiting for unseen hope.
Job 5:24You will know that your tent is in peace. You will visit your fold, and will miss nothing.Both passages describe safety reaching into the place a person lives, whether a dwelling or a tent.
Proverbs 3:33The LORD’s curse is in the house of the wicked, but he blesses the habitation of the righteous.Both passages speak of God’s care reaching a person’s home through protection in the psalm and blessing in the proverb.
Psalm 33:19to deliver their soul from death, to keep them alive in famine.Both psalms describe God’s protection against threats to life, naming plague in Psalm 91 and famine in Psalm 33.
Leviticus 14:35then he who owns the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, ‘There seems to me to be some sort of plague in the house.’Both mention plague in relation to a home; Psalm 91 promises protection, while Leviticus describes reporting a suspected plague.
Where this verse fits

Illness or diagnosis. fear for the future. anxiety or panic.

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One step

Something small to carry out of this verse

Name one fear for your home before God

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Encouragement

Illness is no measure of a person’s faith. This poem speaks with sweeping confidence in the Most High as refuge, grounding its promise of protection in him.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).