63 Bible Verses about Righteous, The
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The sinner takes money and does not give it back; but the upright man has mercy, and gives to others.
The mouth of the upright man is a fountain of life, but the mouth of the evil-doer is a bitter cup.
The upright man is a hater of false words: the evil-doer gets a bad name and is put to shame.
The heart of the upright gives thought to his answer; but from the mouth of the evil-doer comes a stream of evil things.
The desire of the hater of work is death to him, for his hands will do no work. All the day the sinner goes after his desire: but the upright man gives freely, keeping nothing back.
The upright man gives attention to the cause of the poor: the evil-doer gives no thought to it.
But when the Son of man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then will he be seated in his glory: And before him all the nations will come together; and they will be parted one from another, as the sheep are parted from the goats by the keeper. And he will put the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left.read more.
Then will the King say to those on his right, Come, you who have the blessing of my Father, into the kingdom made ready for you before the world was: For I was in need of food, and you gave it to me: I was in need of drink, and you gave it to me: I was wandering, and you took me in; I had no clothing, and you gave it to me: when I was ill, or in prison, you came to me. Then will the upright make answer to him, saying, Lord, when did we see you in need of food, and give it to you? or in need of drink, and give it to you? And when did we see you wandering, and take you in? or without clothing, and give it to you? And when did we see you ill, or in prison, and come to you? And the King will make answer and say to them, Truly I say to you, Because you did it to the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.
The Lord makes open the eyes of the blind; the Lord is the lifter up of those who are bent down; the Lord is a lover of the upright;
And the Lord said, Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is very great, and their sin is very evil, I will go down now, and see if their acts are as bad as they seem from the outcry which has come to me; and if they are not, I will see. And the men, turning from that place, went on to Sodom: but Abraham was still waiting before the Lord.read more.
And Abraham came near, and said, Will you let destruction come on the upright with the sinners? If by chance there are fifty upright men in the town, will you give the place to destruction and not have mercy on it because of the fifty upright men? Let such a thing be far from you, to put the upright to death with the sinner: will not the judge of all the earth do right? And the Lord said, If there are fifty upright men in the town, I will have mercy on it because of them. And Abraham answering said, Truly, I who am only dust, have undertaken to put my thoughts before the Lord: If by chance there are five less than fifty upright men, will you give up all the town to destruction because of these five? And he said, I will not give it to destruction if there are forty-five. And again he said to him, By chance there may be forty there. And he said, I will not do it if there are forty. And he said, Let not the Lord be angry with me if I say, What if there are thirty there? And he said, I will not do it if there are thirty. And he said, See now, I have undertaken to put my thoughts before the Lord: what if there are twenty there? And he said, I will have mercy because of the twenty. And he said, O let not the Lord be angry and I will say only one word more: by chance there may be ten there. And he said, I will have mercy because of the ten.
For this cause there will be no mercy for sinners when they are judged, and the evil-doers will have no place among the upright, Because the Lord sees the way of the upright, but the end of the sinner is destruction.
The little which the good man has is better than the wealth of evil-doers. For the arms of the evil-doers will be broken: but the Lord is the support of the good.
Put your cares on the Lord, and he will be your support; he will not let the upright man be moved.
The way of the Lord is a strong tower for the upright man, but destruction to the workers of evil.
The upright man is taken out of trouble, and in his place comes the sinner.
The Lord will not let the upright be in need of food, but he puts far from him the desire of the evil-doers.
I have been young, and now am old, but I have not seen the good man without help, or his children looking for bread.
The upright man has food to the full measure of his desire, but there will be no food for the stomach of evil-doers.
For you, Lord, will send a blessing on the upright man; your grace will be round him, and you will be his strength.
The curse of the Lord is on the house of the evil-doer, but his blessing is on the tent of the upright.
Blessings are on the head of the upright, but the face of sinners will be covered with sorrow. The memory of the upright is a blessing, but the name of the evil-doer will be turned to dust.
For the eyes of the Lord are on the upright, and his ears are open to their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.
The cry of the upright comes before the Lord, and he takes them out of all their troubles.
As for the man of pride, my soul has no pleasure in him; but the upright man will have life through his good faith.
For in it there is the revelation of the righteousness of God from faith to faith: as it is said in the holy Writings, The man who does righteousness will be living by his faith.
Now that no man gets righteousness by the law in the eyes of God, is clear; because, The upright will be living by faith.
But the upright man will be living by his faith; and if he goes back, my soul will have no pleasure in him.
No man will make himself safe through evil-doing; but the root of upright men will never be moved.
The upright man will never be moved, but evil-doers will not have a safe resting-place in the land.
He who puts his faith in wealth will come to nothing; but the upright man will be full of growth like the green leaf.
Evil-doers are overturned and never seen again, but the house of upright men will keep its place.
The evil man goes running away when no man is after him, but the upright are without fear, like the lion.
But when the upright man, turning away from his righteousness, does evil, like all the disgusting things which the evil man does, will he have life? Not one of his upright acts will be kept in memory: in the wrong which he has done and in his sin death will overtake him.
Take no rewards in a cause: for rewards make blind those who have eyes to see, and make the decisions of the upright false.
You are not to be moved in your judging by a man's position, you are not to take rewards; for rewards make the eyes of the wise man blind, and the decisions of the upright false.
Again, when an upright man, turning away from his righteousness, does evil, and I put a cause of falling in his way, death will overtake him: because you have given him no word of his danger, death will overtake him in his evil-doing, and there will be no memory of the upright acts which he has done; but I will make you responsible for his blood.
And you, son of man, say to the children of your people, The righteousness of the upright man will not make him safe in the day when he does wrong; and the evil-doing of the evil man will not be the cause of his fall in the day when he is turned from his evil-doing; and the upright man will not have life because of his righteousness in the day when he does evil. When I say to the upright that life will certainly be his; if he puts his faith in his righteousness and does evil, not one of his upright acts will be kept in memory; but in the evil he has done, death will overtake him.
The sinner has evil designs against the upright, lifting up the voice of wrath against him. He will be laughed at by the Lord, who sees that his day is coming.
Let me not be shamed, O Lord, for I have made my prayer to you; let the sinners be shamed, and let their mouths be shut in the underworld. Let the false lips be shut, which say evil against the upright, looking down on him in their pride.
They are banded together against the soul of the upright, to give decisions against those who have done no wrong.
The Lord has given full effect to his passion, he has let loose his burning wrath; he has made a fire in Zion, causing the destruction of its bases. To the kings of the earth and to all the people of the world it did not seem possible that the attackers and the haters would go into the doors of Jerusalem. It is because of the sins of her prophets and the evil-doing of her priests, by whom the blood of the upright has been drained out in her.
These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Israel, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they have given the upright man for silver, and the poor for the price of two shoes; Crushing the head of the poor, and turning the steps of the gentle out of the way: and a man and his father go in to the same young woman, putting shame on my holy name:
For I have seen how your evil-doing is increased and how strong are your sins, you troublers of the upright, who take rewards and do wrong to the cause of the poor in the public place.
For this reason the law is feeble and decisions are not effected: for the upright man is circled round by evil-doers; because of which right is twisted.
So that you may be the sons of your Father in heaven; for his sun gives light to the evil and to the good, and he sends rain on the upright man and on the sinner.
The upright will have the earth for their heritage, and will go on living there for ever.
The upright man will be glad when he sees their punishment; his feet will be washed in the blood of the evil-doer. So that men will say, Truly there is a reward for righteousness; truly there is a God who is judge on the earth.
The desire of the upright man is only for good, but wrath is waiting for the evil-doer.
Evil will overtake sinners, but the upright will be rewarded with good. The heritage of the good man is handed down to his children's children; and the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the upright man.
In the house of the upright man there is a great store of wealth; but in the profits of the sinner there is trouble.
Happy is the upright man! for he will have joy of the fruit of his ways.
The upright man goes to his death, and no one gives a thought to it; and god-fearing men are taken away, and no one is troubled by it; for the upright man is taken away because of evil-doing, and goes into peace.
The sinner is overturned in his evil-doing, but the upright man has hope in his righteousness.
And he said to the master of the house, When you give a feast, do not send for your friends and your brothers and your family or your neighbours who have wealth, for they may give a feast for you, and so you will get a reward. But when you give a feast, send for the poor and the blind and those who are broken in body: And you will have a blessing, because they will not be able to give you any payment, and you will get your reward when the upright come back from the dead.
And they will be mine, says the Lord, in the day when I make them my special property; and I will have mercy on them as a man has mercy on his son who is his servant. Then you will again see how the upright man is different from the sinner, and the servant of God from him who is not.
But this I will say openly to you, that I do give worship to the God of our fathers after that Way, which to them is not the true religion: but I have belief in all the things which are in the law and in the books of the prophets: Hoping in God for that which they themselves are looking for, that there will be a coming back from the dead for upright men and wrongdoers. And in this, I do my best at all times to have no reason for shame before God or men.
