9 Bible Verses about Devout Men
Most Relevant Verses
And, behold, there was a man at Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and this man was righteous and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him.
NOW there was a man at Caesarea named Cornelius, a centurion of the cohort called the Italic, a man of piety, and who feared God with all his house, giving much alms to the people, and praying to God continually.
But when the angel departed who spake to Cornelius, he called two of his domestics, and a pious soldier, persons who constantly were in attendance upon him;
And one Ananias, a religious man according to the law, and in high repute with all the Jews dwelling there,
Then some pious men assembling, carried Stephen to his grave, and made great lamentation over him.
And when the synagogue was dismissed, many of the Jews and of the devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas: who, exhorting them, persuaded them to abide stedfast in the grace of God.
Then the Jews stirred up the devout women, and those who were respectable, and the principal persons of the city, and raised up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and cast them out of their borders.
And some of them believed, and associated themselves with Paul and Silas; and of the religious Greeks a vast multitude, and of the wives of the first people not a few.
Therefore he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews, and those who worshipped there, and in the forum every day with those he happened to meet.