in holiness and righteousness before Him all the days of our life.

Is not your reverence your hope? Is not your hope the uprightness of your ways?

Yea, you do away with fear, and take away prayer before God.

But know that Jehovah has set apart the godly for Himself. Jehovah hears when I call to Him.

and with knowledge self-control, and with self-control, patience, and with patience, godliness,

and with godliness, brotherly kindness, and with brotherly kindness, love.

having a form of godliness, but denying the power of it; even turn away from these.

Will He reprove you because of your reverence, or enter into judgment with you?

For Jesus, in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and supplications with strong cryings and tears to Him who was able to save Him from death, and was heard in that He feared,

But refuse profane and old-womanish tales, and exercise yourself to godliness.

Preserve my soul; for I am holy; O You my God, save Your servant who trusts in You.

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to be godly to their own house, and give back to their forebears what is due them; for that is good and pleasing before God.

These things indeed have a reputation of wisdom in self-imposed worship and humility, and unsparing severity of the body, but are not of any value for the satisfying of the flesh.

for kings and all who are in authority, so that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence.

And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

Even so you also appear righteous to men outwardly, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

But godliness with contentment is great gain.

one devout and fearing God, with all his household, both doing many merciful deeds to the people, and praying continually to God.

And seeing this, Peter answered the people, Men, Israelites, why do you marvel at this? Or why do you stare at us, as though we had made this man to walk by our own power or holiness?

Take heed that you do not do your merciful deeds before men, to be seen by them. Otherwise you have no reward with your Father in Heaven.

Let no one defraud you, delighting in humility and worship of the angels, intruding into things which he has not seen, without a cause being vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

And when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, so that they may be seen by men. Truly I say to you, They have their reward.

For bodily exercise profits a little, but godliness is profitable to all things, having promise of the present life, and of that which is to come.

And one Ananias, a devout man according to the Law, testified to by all the Jews who lived there,

And behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. And this man was just and devout, waiting for the Consolation of Israel. And the Holy Spirit was on him.

Even so, if it does not have works, faith is dead, being by itself.

The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge; but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

The Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to reserve the unjust for a day of judgment, to be punished,

And dwelling at Jerusalem there were Jews, devout men out of every nation under heaven.

Therefore, I desire that men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.

but hospitable, a lover of good, discreet, just, holy, temperate,

And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifested in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen by angels, preached among nations, believed on in the world, and received up into glory.

But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of Heaven against men. For you neither go in, nor do you allow those entering to go in.

meddling, of men whose minds have been corrupted and deprived of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness. Withdraw from such.

but with good works, which becomes women professing godliness.

I also will clothe her priests with salvation; and her saints shall shout aloud for joy.