or the riches of His goodness, and forbearance, and long-suffering, dost thou despise? -- not knowing that the goodness of God doth lead thee to reformation!

And I am persuaded, my brethren -- I myself also -- concerning you, that ye yourselves also are full of goodness, having been filled with all knowledge, able also one another to admonish;

for ye were as sheep going astray, but ye turned back now to the shepherd and overseer of your souls.

Beloved, be not thou following that which is evil, but that which is good; he who is doing good, of God he is, and he who is doing evil hath not seen God;

Righteousness

being filled with the fruit of righteousness, that is through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

and thou, O man of God, these things flee, and pursue righteousness, piety, faith, love, endurance, meekness;

and unto the Son: 'Thy throne, O God, is to the age of the age; a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy reign;

who through faith did subdue kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped mouths of lions,

who our sins himself did bear in his body, upon the tree, that to the sins having died, to the righteousness we may live; by whose stripes ye were healed,

if ye know that he is righteous, know ye that every one doing the righteousness, of him hath been begotten.

every one who hath been begotten of God, sin he doth not, because his seed in him doth remain, and he is not able to sin, because of God he hath been begotten.

Truth

and, being true in love, we may increase to Him in all things, who is the head -- the Christ;

Stand, therefore, having your loins girt about in truth, and having put on the breastplate of the righteousness,

Jesus saw Nathanael coming unto him, and he saith concerning him, 'Lo, truly an Israelite, in whom guile is not;'

General references

and the owl, and the night-hawk, and the cuckoo, and the hawk after its kind,