Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.
Righteousness
Bible References
Righteousness
Deuteronomy 4:6
Keep them, therefore, and do them, for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who shall hear all these statutes and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
Deuteronomy 28:1
And it shall come to pass if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God to keep and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all the Gentiles of the earth;
Judges 2:6
For Joshua had let the people go, and the sons of Israel had each gone unto his inheritance to possess the land.
Jeremiah 2:2
Go and cry out in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD: I remember thee, the mercy of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou didst go after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.
Hosea 13:1
When Ephraim spoke everyone feared, he was exalted in Israel; but he was found guilty in Baal and died.
But
Deuteronomy 28:15
And it shall come to pass if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep, to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee today, that all these curses shall come upon thee and overtake thee.
Deuteronomy 29:18
Peradventure there shall be among you 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 Gentiles; peradventure there shall be among you a root that bears poison and wormwood;
Psalm 107:34
the fruitful land into salt flats, because of the wickedness of those that dwell therein.