'Unrighteous' in the Bible
“You shall not give a false report; you shall not join hands with the wicked to be a malicious witness [promoting wrong and violence].
“May my enemy be as the wicked,And he who rises up against me be as the unrighteous (unjust).
“And I smashed the jaws of the wickedAnd snatched the prey from his teeth.
“Does not tragedy fall [justly] on the unjustAnd disaster to those who work wickedness?
Malicious witnesses rise up;They ask me of things that I do not know.
Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked (godless),From the grasp of the unrighteous and ruthless man.
Can a throne of destruction be allied with You,One which frames and devises mischief by decree [under the sacred name of law]?
A false balance and dishonest business practices are extremely offensive to the Lord,But an accurate scale is His delight.
Woe (judgment is coming) to those [judges] who issue evil statutes,And to those [magistrates] who constantly record unjust and oppressive decisions,
Let the wicked leave (behind) his wayAnd the unrighteous man his thoughts;And let him return to the Lord,And He will have compassion (mercy) on him,And to our God,For He will abundantly pardon.
And I tell you [learn from this], make friends for yourselves [for eternity] by means of the wealth of unrighteousness [that is, use material resources as a way to further the work of God], so that when it runs out, they will welcome you into the eternal dwellings.
Therefore if you have not been faithful in the use of earthly wealth, who will entrust the true riches to you?
The Pharisee stood [ostentatiously] and began praying to himself [in a self-righteous way, saying]: ‘God, I thank You that I am not like the rest of men—swindlers, unjust (dishonest), adulterers—or even like this tax collector.
having [the same] hope in God which these men cherish themselves, that there shall certainly be a resurrection of [the dead], both of the righteous and of the wicked.
Does any one of you, when he has a complaint (civil dispute) with another [believer], dare to go to law before unrighteous men (non-believers) instead of [placing the issue] before the saints (God’s people)?
Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit or have any share in the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate [by perversion], nor those who participate in homosexuality,
and [pray] that we will be rescued from perverse and evil men; for not everyone has the faith.
For God is not unjust so as to forget your work and the love which you have shown for His name in ministering to [the needs of] the saints (God’s people), as you do.
For indeed Christ died for sins once for all, the Just and Righteous for the unjust and unrighteous [the Innocent for the guilty] so that He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit;
Let the one who does wrong, still do wrong; and the one who is filthy (vile, impure), still be filthy; and the one who is righteous (just, upright), still be righteous; and the one who is holy, still be holy.”
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