Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.

Bible References

Righteousness

Deuteronomy 4:6
So keep and do them, for that is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who will hear all these statutes and say, ‘Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.’
Deuteronomy 28:1
Now it shall be, if you diligently obey the Lord your God, being careful to do all His commandments which I command you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
Judges 2:6
When Joshua had dismissed the people, the sons of Israel went each to his inheritance to possess the land.
Jeremiah 2:2
“Go and proclaim in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord,
“I remember concerning you the devotion of your youth,
The love of your betrothals,
Your following after Me in the wilderness,
Through a land not sown.
Hosea 13:1
When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling.
He exalted himself in Israel,
But through Baal he did wrong and died.

But

Deuteronomy 28:15
But it shall come about, if you do not obey the Lord your God, to observe to do all His commandments and His statutes with which I charge you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:
Deuteronomy 29:18
so that there will not be among you a man or woman, or family or tribe, whose heart turns away today from the Lord our God, to go and serve the gods of those nations; that there will not be among you a root bearing poisonous fruit and wormwood.
Psalm 107:34
A fruitful land into a salt waste,
Because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it.