39 occurrences

'Righteous Man' in the Bible

Surely, such are the dwellings of the unrighteous man, and such the place of him that knoweth not God.

For thou, Jehovah, wilt bless the righteous man; with favour wilt thou surround him as with a shield.

Oh let the wrong of the wicked come to an end, and establish thou the righteous man; even thou that triest the hearts and reins, the righteous God.

Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation; deliver me from the deceitful and unrighteous man.

Jehovah suffereth not the soul of the righteous man to famish; but he repelleth the craving of the wicked.

Blessings are upon the head of a righteous man; but the mouth of the wicked covereth violence.

The tongue of the righteous man is as choice silver; the heart of the wicked is little worth.

The righteous man shall never be moved; but the wicked shall not inhabit the land.

The mouth of a righteous man putteth forth wisdom; but the froward tongue shall be cut out.

The lips of a righteous man know what is acceptable; but the mouth of the wicked is frowardness.

In the transgression of the lips is an evil snare; but a righteous man shall go forth out of trouble.

The evil bow before the good, and the wicked at the gates of the righteous man.

To punish a righteous man is not good, nor to strike nobles because of their uprightness.

A troubled fountain, and a defiled well, is a righteous man that giveth way before the wicked.

All this have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a righteous man that perisheth by his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his days by his wickedness.

And when a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and do what is wrong, and I lay a stumbling-block before him, he shall die; because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous acts which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thy hand.

And if thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall certainly live, for he hath taken warning; and thou hast delivered thy soul.

He that receives a prophet in the name of a prophet, shall receive a prophet's reward; and he that receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man, shall receive a righteous man's reward.

But, as he was sitting on the judgment-seat, his wife sent to him, saying, Have thou nothing to do with that righteous man; for I have suffered to-day many things in a dream because of him.

And they said, Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous man, and fearing God, and borne witness to by the whole nation of the Jews, has been divinely instructed by a holy angel to send for thee to his house, and hear words from thee.

(for the righteous man through seeing and hearing, dwelling among them, tormented his righteous soul day after day with their lawless works,)