Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.

Bible References

Righteous

Matthew 5:46
For if you love only those who love you, what reward do you get for that? do not the very taxgatherers do as much?
Luke 6:32
If you love only those who love you, what credit is that to you? Why, even sinful men love those who love them.
1 Peter 2:18
Servants, be submissive to your masters with perfect respect, not simply to those who are kind and reasonable but to the surly as well ??19 for it is a merit when from a sense of God one bears the pain of unjust suffering.

But

James 1:13
Let no one who is tried by temptation say, 'My temptation comes from God'; God is incapable of being tempted by evil and he tempts no one.
2 Peter 2:18
By talking arrogant futilities they beguile with the sensual lure of fleshly passion those who are just escaping from the company of misconduct ??19 promising them freedom, when they are themselves enslaved to corruption (for a man is the slave of whatever overpowers him).
1 John 2:26
I am writing to you in this way about those who would deceive you,
Revelation 12:9
So the huge dragon was thrown down ??that old serpent called the Devil and Satan, the seducer of the whole world ??thrown down to the earth, and his angels thrown down along with him.
Revelation 13:14
and by dint of the miracles he is allowed to perform in presence of the Beast, he seduces the dwellers on earth; he bids the dwellers on earth erect a statue to the Beast who lived after being wounded by the sword,