The righteous eateth, and is satisfied; but the belly of the ungodly hath never enough.

Fools make but a sport of sin; but there is favourable love among the righteous.

The houses of the ungodly shall be overthrown; but the tabernacles of the righteous shall flourish.

The evil shall bow themselves before the good; and the ungodly shall wait at the doors of the righteous.

The ungodly is afraid of every peril; but the righteous hath a good hope even in death.

In the house of the righteous are great riches; but the increase of the ungodly are nigh destruction.

The LORD abhorreth the sacrifice of the ungodly; but the prayer of the righteous is acceptable to him.

The way of the slothful is full of thorns; but the street of the righteous is well cleansed.

A righteous man museth in his mind how to do good; but the mind of the ungodly imagineth how he may do harm.

The LORD is far from the ungodly; but he heareth the prayer of the righteous.

Righteous lips are pleasant unto kings; and they love him that speaketh the truth.

The path of the righteous escheweth evil; and whoso looketh well to his ways, keepeth his own soul.

For the wrath of man worketh not that which is righteous before God.

Knowledge your faults one to another: and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man availeth much, if it be fervent.

And if the righteous scarcely be saved: where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?

My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye should sin not: if, though, any man sin, yet we have an Advocate with the father, even Jesus Christ, which is righteous.

If ye know that he is righteous, know also that all that work righteousness, are born of him.

and not be as Cain, which was of the devil and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? For his own deeds were evil, and his brother's righteous.

Then thought I in my mind, "God shall separate the righteous from the ungodly, and then shall be the time and judgment of all counsels and works."

for a righteous father is marvelous glad of a wise son, and delighteth in him.

Lay no privy wait wickedly upon the house of the righteous, and disquiet not his resting place.

He that sayeth unto the ungodly, "Thou art righteous," him shall the people curse; yea, the commonality shall abhor him.

A righteous man falling down before the ungodly, is like a troubled well and a spring that is destroyed.

The ungodly fleeth, no man chasing him; but the righteous standeth stiff as a lion.

Whoso leadeth the righteous in to an evil way, shall fall into his own pit; but the just shall have the good in possession.

When righteous men are in prosperity, then doth honour flourish; but when the ungodly come up, the state of men changeth.

When the ungodly are come up, men are fain to hide themselves; but when they perish, the righteous increase.

The sin of the wicked is his own snare, but the righteous shall be glad and rejoice.

The righteous considereth the cause of the poor, but the ungodly regardeth no understanding.

The bloodthirsty hate the righteous, but the just seek his soul.

When the ungodly come up, wickedness increaseth; but the righteous shall see their fall.

The righteous abhorreth the ungodly; but as for those that be in the right way, the wicked hate them.

And I heard an angel say, "Lord which art and wast, thou art righteous and holy, because thou hast given such judgments,

And I heard another out of the altar say, "Even so, Lord God almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments."

for true and righteous are his judgments, for he hath judged the great whore which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants of her hand."

I came not to call the righteous: but the sinners to repentance."

How happeneth it then that the righteous city, which was full of equity, is become unfaithful as an whore? Righteousness dwelt in it, but now murder.

and set thy judges again as they were sometime, and thy Senators as they were from the beginning. Then shalt thou be called the righteous city, the faithful city.

Bid the righteous do well, for they shall enjoy the fruits of their studies.

These give sentence with the ungodly for rewards, but condemn the just cause of the righteous.

Yet is there a vanity upon earth: there be just men, unto whom it happeneth, as though they had the works of the ungodly; Again, there be ungodly, with whom it goeth as though they had the works of the righteous. This me think also a vain thing.

For all these things purposed I in my mind to seek out. The righteous and wise, yea and their servants also are in the hand of God: and there is no man that knoweth either love or hate, but all things are before them.

It happeneth unto one as unto another; It goeth with the righteous as with the ungodly; with the good and clean as with the unclean; with him that offereth as with him that offereth not; like as it goeth with the virtuous, so goeth it also with the sinner; As it happeneth unto the perjured, so happeneth it also unto him that is afraid to be foresworn.

Draw thou me unto thee; we will run after thee. The king hath brought me into his privy chamber: We will be glad and rejoice in thee, we think more of thy love than of wine. They that be righteous love thee.

We heard songs sung to the praise of the righteous, from all the ends of the world. And I said, "O mine unfruitfulness! O my poverty! Woe is me! The transgressors have offended; the transgressors have grievously offended!"

Open ye the gates, that the righteous people which keep the truth may enter in.

Yet standeth the LORD waiting, that he may have mercy upon you, and lifteth himself up, that he may receive you to grace. For the LORD God is righteous. Happy are all they that wait for him.

Who declared this from the beginning, and we will know him; or from the old times, and we will confess and say that he is righteous? But there is none that showeth or declareth anything; there is none also that heareth your words.

Put me now in remembrance, for we will reason together, and show what thou hast for thee, to make thee righteous.

For thus sayeth the LORD, that made thee, fashioned thee, and helped thee, even from thy mother's womb: Be not afraid, O Jacob my servant, thou righteous, whom I have chosen.

I have not spoken secretly, neither in dark places of the earth. It is not for naught, that I said unto the seed of Jacob, "Seek me." I am the LORD which, when I speak, declareth the thing that is righteous and true.

And the LORD said unto me, "The shrinking Israel is more righteous than the unfaithful Judah:

They seek of me righteous judgments, and will draw nigh unto God. Why have we fasted and thou hast not looked upon it? Have humbled our souls, and thou wouldest not wit it?

And now, O LORD of Hosts, thou righteous searcher which knowest the reins and the very hearts: let me see them punished, for unto thee I commit my cause.