And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?
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Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?
Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.
And Judah acknowledged them, and said, She hath been more righteous than I; because that I gave her not to Shelah my son. And he knew her again no more.
If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;
What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn.
So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?
If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?
Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.
I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.
Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.
O continue thy lovingkindness unto them that know thee; and thy righteousness to the upright in heart.
The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein for ever.
The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.
Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.
Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.
Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high, who hast done great things: O God, who is like unto thee!
Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set us in the way of his steps.
Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
And that was counted unto him for righteousness unto all generations for evermore.
Surely he shall not be moved for ever: the righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance.
Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.
For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity.
That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.
The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise.
A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.
The wicked are overthrown, and are not: but the house of the righteous shall stand.
A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
The wicked desireth the net of evil men: but the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit.
The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.
A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame.
The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soul: but the belly of the wicked shall want.
The evil bow before the good; and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.
In the house of the righteous is much treasure: but in the revenues of the wicked is trouble.
The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain.
Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.
The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright.
He coveteth greedily all the day long: but the righteous giveth and spareth not.
Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; spoil not his resting place:
A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring.
The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.
Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good things in possession.
Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself?
Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;
He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;
Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know? and beforetime, that we may say, He is righteous? yea, there is none that sheweth, yea, there is none that declareth, yea, there is none that heareth your words.
I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.
Hearken unto me, ye stouthearted, that are far from righteousness:
The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.
I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee.
But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that useth his neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him not for his work;
All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live.
O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies.
In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.
And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.
Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more;
O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.
As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.
For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.
If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.
Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.
Nevertheless one of them thou leftest, namely, Noah with his household, of whom came all righteous men.
One land also shall ask another, and say, Is righteousness that maketh a man righteous gone through thee? And it shall say, No.
Moreover they have trodden down his righteous,
Therefore he that speaketh unrighteous things cannot be hid: neither shall vengeance, when it punisheth, pass by him.
(For righteousness is immortal:)
But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and there shall no torment touch them.
As for the children of adulterers, they shall not come to their perfection, and the seed of an unrighteous bed shall be rooted out.
For horrible is the end of the unrighteous generation.
Then shall the righteous man stand in great boldness before the face of such as have afflicted him, and made no account of his labours.
For to know thee is perfect righteousness: yea, to know thy power is the root of immortality.
My son, sow not upon the furrows of unrighteousness, and thou shalt not reap them sevenfold.
If thou followest righteousness, thou shalt obtain her, and put her on, as a glorious long robe.
But these were merciful men, whose righteousness hath not been forgotten.
And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.
And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.
That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.
And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place:
And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law.
But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, Lord, wilt thou slay also a righteous nation?
So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me.
Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter in law, Remain a widow at thy father's house, till Shelah my son be grown: for he said, Lest peradventure he die also, as his brethren did. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house.
And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold thy father in law goeth up to Timnath to shear his sheep.
And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter in law hath played the harlot; and also, behold, she is with child by whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt.
And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth part; except the land of the priests only, which became not Pharaoh's.
The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.