66 Bible Verses about Righteous, The
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The wicked man borrows, and pays not again, but the righteous man deals graciously, and gives.
The mouth of a righteous man is a fountain of life, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.
The heart of a righteous man meditates to answer, but the mouth of the wicked pours out evil things.
The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor. There is he who covets greedily all the day long, but the righteous gives and does not withhold.
A righteous man takes knowledge of the cause of the poor. A wicked man has no [such] understanding to know.
But when the Son of man comes in his glory, and all the holy agents with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory. And all the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate them from each other, as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. And he will truly place the sheep at his right hand, but the goats at the left.read more.
Then the King will say to those at his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry, and ye gave me to eat. I was thirsty, and ye gave me to drink. I was a stranger, and ye took me in, naked, and ye clothed me. I was feeble, and ye came to help me. I was in prison, and ye came to me. Then the righteous will answer him, saying, Lord, when did we see thee hungering, and fed thee, or thirsting, and gave thee drink? And when did we see thee a stranger, and took thee in, or naked, and clothed thee? And when did we see thee weak, or in prison, and came to thee? And having answered, the King will say to them, Truly I say to you, inasmuch as ye did it to one of these my brothers, the least, ye did it to me.
LORD opens [the eyes of] the blind. LORD raises up those who are bowed down. LORD loves the righteous.
And LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous, I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which comes to me. And if not, I will know. And the men turned from there, and went toward Sodom, but Abraham yet stood before LORD.read more.
And Abraham drew near, and said, Will thou consume righteous men with wicked men? Perhaps there are fifty righteous men within the city. Will thou consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous men that are in it? That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay a righteous man with a wicked man, that so the righteous man should be as the wicked man. Far be it from thee. Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right? And LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous men within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sake. And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak to the Lord, who am but dust and ashes. Perhaps there shall lack five of the fifty righteous men. Will thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, I will not destroy it, if I find there forty-five. And he spoke to him yet again, and said, Perhaps there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for the forty's sake. And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak. Perhaps there shall be thirty found there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there. And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak to the Lord. Perhaps there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for the twenty's sake. And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once. Perhaps ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for the ten's sake.
Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. For LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.
Better is a little that the righteous man has than the abundance of many wicked men. For the arms of the wicked shall be broken, but LORD upholds the righteous.
(Cast thy burden upon LORD, and he will sustain thee. He will never allow the righteous man to be moved.)
The way of LORD is a stronghold to the upright, but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.
A righteous man is delivered out of trouble, and a wicked man comes in his stead.
There shall no mischief happen to a righteous man, but the wicked shall be filled with evil.
LORD will not allow the soul of a righteous man to famish, but he thrusts away the desire of the wicked.
I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen a righteous man forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
A righteous man eats to the satisfying of his soul, but the belly of the wicked shall want.
For thou will bless the righteous man, O LORD. Thou will encompass him with favor as with a shield. Selah.
He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but he sets them forever with kings upon the throne, and they are exalted.
The curse of LORD is in the house of a wicked man, but he blesses the habitation of the righteous.
Blessings are upon the head of a righteous man, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked. The memory of a righteous man is blessed, but the name of the wicked shall rot.
Because the eyes of Lord are toward the righteous, and his ears to their supplication, but the face of Lord is against men who do evil things.
They cried, and LORD heard, and delivered them out of all their troubles.
Behold, his soul is puffed up; it is not upright in him. (But the righteous man shall live by his faith.
For the righteousness of God is revealed in it from faith for faith, just as it is written, And the righteous man will live from faith.
But that no man is made righteous by law before God, is evident, because, The righteous man will live from faith.
But the righteous man will live from faith, and if he should withdraw, my soul is not pleased with him.
A man shall not be established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.
A righteous man shall never be removed, but the wicked shall not dwell in the land.
He who trusts in his riches shall fall, but the righteous shall flourish as the green leaf.
The wicked are overthrown, and are not, but the house of the righteous shall stand.
But when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that a wicked man does, shall he live? None of his righteous deeds that he has done shall be remembered. I
And thou shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight, and perverts the words of the righteous.
Thou shall not distort justice. Thou shall not respect persons, neither shall thou take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise, and perverts the words of the righteous.
For the scepter of wickedness shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous, that the righteous not put forth their hands to iniquity.
Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die. Because thou have not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which h
And thou, son of man, say to the sons of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous man shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression. And as for the wickedness of the wicked man, he shall not fall by it in the day that When I say to the righteous man, that he shall surely live, if he trusts his righteousness, and commits iniquity, none of his righteous deeds shall be remembered, but in his iniquity that he has committed, in it he shall die.
The wicked man plots against the righteous man, and gnashes upon him with his teeth. LORD will laugh at him, for he sees that his day is coming.
Let me not be put to shame, O LORD, for I have called upon thee. Let the wicked be put to shame. Let them be silent in Sheol. Let the lying lips be dumb, which speak against the righteous man insolently, with pride and contempt.
They gather themselves together against the soul of a righteous man, and condemn innocent blood.
LORD has accomplished his wrath. He has poured out his fierce anger, and he has kindled a fire in Zion, which has devoured the foundations thereof. The kings of the earth did not believe, nor all the inhabitants of the world, that the adversary and the enemy would enter into the gates of Jerusalem. [It is] because of the sins of her prophets, [and] the iniquities of her priests, who have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her.
Thus says LORD: For three transgressions of Israel, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it, because they have sold a righteous man for silver, and a needy man for a pair of shoes-- those who pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek. And a man and his father go to the [same] maiden, to profane my holy name.
For I know how manifold are your transgressions, and how mighty are your sins--ye who afflict the just man, who take a bribe, and who turn aside the needy in the gate [from their right].
Therefore the law is slacked, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked man surrounds the righteous man, therefore justice goes forth perverted.
so that ye may become sons of your Father in the heavens, because he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and makes rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.
A righteous man shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance. He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked, so that men shall say, Truly there is a reward for the righteous man. Truly there is a God who judges in the earth.
A righteous man shall flourish like the palm tree. He shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. Men who are planted in the house of LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God. They shall still bring forth fruit in old age. They shall be full of sap and greenread more.
to show that LORD is upright. He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
The desire of the righteous is only good. The expectation of the wicked is wrath.
Evil pursues sinners, but the righteous shall be recompensed with good. A good man leaves an inheritance to his son's sons, and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the righteous.
In the house of a righteous man is much treasure, but in the revenues of a wicked man is trouble.
Say ye of the righteous, that [it is] well, for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
The righteous man perishes, and no man lays it to heart. And merciful men are taken away; none considering that the righteous man is taken away from the evil [to come].
An evil man is thrust down in his evil-doing, but a righteous man has hope in his death.
And he also said to the man who invited him, When thou make a dinner or a supper, do not call thy friends, nor thy brothers, nor thy kinsmen, nor prosperous neighbors, lest they also invite thee in return, and a recompense be made But when thou make a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind, and thou will be blessed, because they do not have to recompense thee, for it will be recompensed to thee at the resurrection of the righteous.
from men by thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world whose portion is in [this] life, and whose belly thou fill with thy treasure. They are satisfied with sons, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes. As for me, I shall behold thy face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy form.
And they shall be mine, says LORD of hosts, my own possession, in the day that I make. And I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him. Then ye shall return and discern between the righteous man and the wicked man, between him who serves God and him who does not serve him.
But this I confess to thee, that according to the Way that they call a sect, so serve I the paternal God, believing all things written according to the law and the prophets, having hope toward God, which they themselves also await, to come to be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust. And in this I fashion myself, having a conscience always nonstumbling before God and men.
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He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but he sets them forever with kings upon the throne, and they are exalted.
