Bible Verses About Righteousness

to deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perversity,

from those who leave the straight paths to walk in the ways of darkness,

from those who enjoy doing evil and rejoice in the twistedness of evil,

whose paths are crooked and whose ways are devious.

It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words

who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.

For her house sinks down to death, and her tracks to the departed spirits.

None who go to her return or negotiate the paths of life.

So you will follow in the ways of the good, and keep to the paths of the righteous.

for the LORD detests the perverse, but He is a friend to the upright.

Ill-gotten treasures profit nothing, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.

The LORD does not let the righteous go hungry, but He denies the craving of the wicked.

The labor of the righteous leads to life, but the gain of the wicked brings punishment.

What the wicked man dreads will overtake him, but the desire of the righteous will be granted.

The righteous will never be shaken, but the wicked will not inhabit the land.

The righteousness of the blameless directs their path, but the wicked fall by their own wickedness.

The righteousness of the upright delivers them, but the faithless are trapped by their own desires.

The righteous man is delivered from trouble; in his place the wicked man goes in.

The wicked man earns an empty wage, but he who sows righteousness reaps a true reward.

Genuine righteousness leads to life, but the pursuit of evil brings death.

The desire of the righteous leads only to good, but the hope of the wicked brings wrath.

He who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous will thrive like foliage.

The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and he who wins souls is wise.

A man cannot be established through wickedness, but the righteous cannot be uprooted.

The plans of the righteous are just, but the counsel of the wicked leads to deceit.