Thematic Bible: The righteous


Thematic Bible



For Thou blessest the righteous, O Jehovah, As a buckler with favour dost compass him!








The righteous is walking habitually in his integrity, O the happiness of his sons after him!




For an abomination to Jehovah is the perverted, And with the upright is His secret counsel.

Say ye to the righteous, that it is good, Because the fruit of their doings they eat.

He withdraweth not from the righteous His eyes, And from kings on the throne, And causeth them to sit for ever, and they are high,

In transgression of the lips is the snare of the wicked, And the righteous goeth out from distress.


And her priests I clothe with salvation, And her pious ones do sing aloud.

and the nations were angry, and Thine anger did come, and the time of the dead, to be judged, and to give the reward to Thy servants, to the prophets, and to the saints, and to those fearing Thy name, to the small and to the great, and to destroy those who are destroying the land.'

For Jehovah is loving judgment, And He doth not forsake His saintly ones, To the age they have been kept, And the seed of the wicked is cut off.

have ye not known that the saints shall judge the world? and if by you the world is judged, are ye unworthy of the smaller judgments?


and the kingdom, and the dominion, even the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heavens, is given to the people -- the saints of the Most High, His kingdom is a kingdom age-during, and all dominions do serve and obey Him.






The righteous is walking habitually in his integrity, O the happiness of his sons after him!


Hand to hand, the wicked is not acquitted, And the seed of the righteous hath escaped.

His soul in good doth remain, And his seed doth possess the land.

And the seed of His servants inherit it, And those loving His name dwell in it!

The sons of Thy servants do continue, And their seed before Thee is established!


'Do not injure the land, nor the sea, nor the trees, till we may seal the servants of our God upon their foreheads.'


And I saw, and lo, a Lamb having stood upon the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty-four thousands, having the name of his Father written upon their foreheads;

and it was said to them that they may not injure the grass of the earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree, but -- the men only who have not the seal of God upon their foreheads,

And He calleth unto the man who is clothed with linen, who hath the scribe's inkhorn at his loins, and Jehovah saith unto him, 'Pass on into the midst of the city, into the midst of Jerusalem, and thou hast made a mark on the foreheads of the men who are sighing and who are groaning for all the abominations that are done in its midst.'






But now, my steps Thou numberest, Thou dost not watch over my sin.



In thy walking thy step is not straitened, And if thou runnest, thou stumblest not.


Making my feet like hinds, And on my high places causeth me to stand,



The feet of His saints He keepeth, And the wicked in darkness are silent, For not by power doth man become mighty.




My portion is Jehovah, hath my soul said, Therefore I hope for Him.

Jehovah is the portion of my share, and of my cup, Thou -- Thou dost uphold my lot.

Cheth. My portion is Jehovah; I have said -- to keep Thy words,

I have cried unto thee, O Jehovah, I have said, 'Thou art my refuge, My portion in the land of the living.'








In faith died all these, not having received the promises, but from afar having seen them, and having been persuaded, and having saluted them, and having confessed that strangers and sojourners they are upon the earth,


Who hath counted the dust of Jacob, And the number of the fourth of Israel? Let me die the death of upright ones, And let my last end be like his!'