But her husband, Joseph, was an upright man and did not wish to disgrace her, and he decided to break off the engagement privately.

so that you may show yourselves true sons of your Father in heaven, for he makes his sun rise on bad and good alike, and makes the rain fall on the upright and the wrongdoers.

Whoever welcomes a prophet because he is a prophet will have the same reward as a prophet, and whoever welcomes an upright man because he is upright will have the same reward as an upright man.

For I tell you, many prophets and upright men have longed to see what you see, and could not see it, and to hear what you hear, and could not hear it.

But he said, 'No, for in gathering up the weeds you may uproot the wheat.

Then the upright will shine out like the sun, in their Father's kingdom. Let him who has ears listen!

That is what will happen at the close of the age. The angels will go out and remove the wicked from among the upright,

So you outwardly appear to men to be upright, but within you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.

"Alas for you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, for you build tombs for the prophets, and decorate the monuments of the upright,

it is that on your heads may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth from the blood of Abel the upright to the blood of Zechariah, Barachiah's son, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar!

Then the upright will answer, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and give you food, or thirsty, and give you something to drink?

Then they will go away to everlasting punishment, and the upright to everlasting life."

Now while he was on the bench his wife sent to him to say, "Do not have anything to do with that upright man, for I have just had a painful experience in a dream about him."

for Herod stood in awe of John, knowing that he was an upright and holy man, and he protected him. And when he heard him talk he was very much disturbed, and yet he liked to hear him.

As he was sitting on the Mount of Olives opposite the Temple, Peter, James, John, and Andrew asked him, apart from the others,

They were both upright in the sight of God, blamelessly observing all the Lord's commands and requirements.

He will go before him with the spirit and the power of Elijah, to reconcile fathers to their children, and to bring the disobedient back to the wisdom of upright men, to make a people perfectly ready for the Lord."

Now there was a man in Jerusalem named Symeon, an upright, devout man, who was living in expectation of the comforting of Israel, and under the influence of the holy Spirit.

Then you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you; for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the upright."

I tell you, in just that way there will be more joy in heaven over one sinful person who repents, than over ninety-nine upright people who do not need any repentance.

Now there was a man named Joseph, a member of the council, a good and upright man,

Everything came into existence through him, and apart from him nothing came to be.

So they moved the stone away. And Jesus looked upward and said, "Father, I thank you for listening to me,

I am the vine, you are the branches. Anyone who remains united to me, with me united to him, will be very fruitful, for you cannot do anything apart from me.

They answered, "Cornelius, who is a captain, and an upright and God-fearing man, and who has a good reputation with the whole Jewish nation, was directed by a holy angel to send for you to come to his house, and to listen to what you have to say."

As they were engaged in worshiping the Lord and in fasting, the holy Spirit said, "Set Barnabas and Saul apart for me, for the work to which I have called them."

For all Athenians and all visitors there from abroad used to spend all their time telling or listening to something new.

and I have the same hope in God that they themselves hold, that there is to be a resurrection of the upright and the wicked.

Paul, a slave of Jesus Christ, called as an apostle, set apart to declare God's good news,

In it God's way of uprightness is disclosed through faith and for faith, just as the Scripture says, "The upright will have life because of his faith."

For merely hearing the Law read does not make a man upright in the sight of God; men must obey the Law to be made upright.

By no means! God must prove true, though every man be false; as the Scripture says, "That you may be shown to be upright in what you say, And win your case when you go into court."

As the Scripture says, "There is not a single man who is upright,

For no human being can be made upright in the sight of God by observing the Law. All that the Law can do is to make man conscious of sin.

but by his mercy they are made upright for nothing, by the deliverance secured through Christ Jesus.

For God showed him publicly dying as a sacrifice of reconciliation to be taken advantage of through faith. This was to vindicate his own justice (for in his forbearance, God passed over men's former sins)??26 to vindicate his justice at the present time, and show that he is upright himself, and that he makes those who have faith in Jesus upright also.

For we hold that a man is made upright by faith; the observance of the Law has nothing to do with it.

there is but one God, and he will make the circumcised upright on the ground of their faith and the uncircumcised upright because of theirs."

For if he was made upright by what he did, it is something to be proud of. But not to be proud of before God,

but a man who has no work to offer, but has faith in him who can make the ungodly upright, has his faith credited to him as uprightness.

who was given up to death to make up for our offenses, and raised to life to make us upright.

So as we have been made upright by faith, let us live in peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

Why, a man will hardly give his life for an upright person, though perhaps for a really good man some may be brave enough to die.

So if we have already been made upright by his death, it is far more certain that through him we shall be saved from God's anger!

For just as that one man's disobedience made the mass of mankind sinners, so this one's obedience will make the mass of them upright.

and those whom he has predestined he calls, and those whom he calls he makes upright, and those whom he makes upright he glorifies.

Who can bring any accusation against those whom God has chosen? God pronounces them upright;

For with their minds men believe and are made upright, and with their lips they make the acknowledgment and are saved.

Some of you used to be like that; but you have washed it all away, you have been consecrated, you have become upright, by the power of our Lord Jesus Christ and through the Spirit of our God.

And when God, who had set me apart from my birth and had called me in his mercy, saw fit

but who know that a man is not made upright by doing what the Law commands, but by faith in Christ Jesus??ven we believed in Christ Jesus, so as to be made upright by faith in Christ and not by doing what the Law commands??or by doing what the Law commands no one can be made upright.

If through our efforts to be made upright through Christ, we have ourselves been proved as much "sinners" as the heathen, does that make Christ encourage sin? By no means.

The Scripture foresaw that God would accept the heathen as upright in consequence of their faith, and preached the good news in advance to Abraham in the words, "All the heathen will be blessed through you."

That no one is accepted as upright by God for obeying the Law is evident because the upright will have life because of his faith,

So the Law has been our attendant on our way to Christ, so that we might be made upright through faith.

You people who propose to be made upright by law have finished with Christ; you have lost your hold upon God's favor.

For he is himself our peace. He has united the two divisions, and broken down the barrier that kept us apart,

I am pressing toward the goal, for the prize to which God through Christ Jesus calls us upward.

You will testify, and God will, how pure and upright and irreproachable our relations were with you who believed.

with the understanding that law is not intended for upright men but for the lawless and disorderly, the godless and irreligious, the irreverent and profane, men who kill their fathers or mothers, murderers,

Now the crown of uprightness awaits me, which the Lord, the upright judge, will award me on that Day, and not only me but also all who have loved and hoped for his appearing.

but hospitable, a lover of goodness, sensible, upright, of holy life, self-controlled,

training us to renounce godless ways and worldly passions, and live serious, upright, and godly lives in this world,

he saved us, not for any upright actions we had performed, but from his own mercy, through the bath of regeneration and renewal by the holy Spirit,

so that we might be made upright through his mercy and become possessors of eternal life in fulfilment of our hope.

Faith made Abel's sacrifice greater in the sight of God than Cain's; through faith he gained God's approval as an upright man, for God himself approved his offering, and through faith even when he was dead he still spoke.

to the solemn gathering of all God's elder sons, enrolled as citizens in heaven, to a judge who is the God of all, to the spirits of upright men now at last enjoying the fulfilment of their hopes,

Pray for me, for I am sure I have a clear conscience, and I mean in every way to live an upright life.

Was not our forefather Abraham made upright for his good deeds, for offering his son Isaac on the altar?

You see a man is made upright by his good deeds and not simply by having faith.

Was not even Rahab the prostitute made upright for her good deeds, in entertaining the scouts and sending them off by a different road?

You have condemned and murdered the upright. Will he make no resistance?

So confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you may be cured. An upright man can do a great deal by prayer when he tries.

Live upright lives among the heathen, so that even if they charge you with being evil-doers, they may from observing the uprightness of your conduct come to praise God on the Day of Judgment.

For the eyes of the Lord are upon upright men, And his ears are open to their entreaty, But the Lord's face is set against men that do wrong."

and keep your conscience clear, so that those who abuse your upright Christian conduct may be made ashamed of their slanders.

For Christ himself died once for all, for sin, an upright man for unrighteous men, to bring us to God, and was physically put to death, but he was made alive in the Spirit.

If it is hard for the upright man to be saved, what will become of the godless and sinful?

and saved the upright Lot who was so distressed by the immoral conduct of unprincipled men??8 for as long as that upright man lived among them, day after day his upright soul was tormented by what he saw and heard of their lawless actions??9 then the Lord knows how to rescue God-fearing people from trial and to punish wrongdoers while they are being kept for the Day of Judgment,

If we acknowledge our sins, he is upright and can be depended on to forgive our sins and cleanse us from everything wrong.

My dear children, I am writing you this so that you may not sin; yet if anyone does sin, we have in Jesus Christ one who is upright and will intercede for us with the Father.

If you know that he is upright, you may be sure that everyone who acts uprightly is his child.

Dear children, let no one mislead you; whoever acts uprightly is upright, just as he is upright.

We must not be like Cain who was a child of the evil one, and butchered his brother. And why did he butcher him? Because his own actions were wicked and his brother's upright.

the sky was torn apart and rolled up like a roll; and every mountain and island was dislodged from its place.

and they were singing the song of Moses, the slave of God, and the song of the Lamb: "Great and marvelous are your doings, Lord God Almighty! Upright and true are your ways, King of the Ages!

for his judgments are sound and upright. For he has passed judgment upon the great idolatress who corrupted the earth with her idolatry, and he has avenged the blood of his slaves upon her!"

She has been permitted to wear clean, glistening linen, for linen represents the upright deeds of God's people."

Let the evil-doer do worse and worse, let the base grow baser and baser, let the upright man be more and more upright, and the man who is holy be more and more holy."