Bible Verses About Righteousness

They will save you from the way of evil and from those who speak deceitfully,

who leave the paths of honesty to walk the ways of darkness,

who delight in doing evil and take joy in being stubbornly deceitful,

from those whose tracks are twisted and whose paths are perverse.

They will save you from a woman who is a stranger, from a loose woman with smooth talk,

who abandons the ruler she had in her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.

Her house is sinking toward death, her paths lead to the dead.

None who go to her return; they never regain the path to life.

Thus you will walk on the way of good people and keep to the paths of the righteous.

for the perverse is an abomination to ADONAI, but he shares his secret counsel with the upright.

No good comes from ill-gotten wealth, but righteousness rescues from death.

ADONAI does not let the righteous go hungry, but he thwarts the craving of the wicked.

The activity of the righteous is for life; the income of the wicked is for sin.

What a fool dreads will overtake him, but the righteous will be given his desire.

The righteous will never be moved, but the wicked will not remain in the land.

The righteousness of the innocent levels their way, but wickedness of the wicked makes them fall.

The righteousness of the upright rescues them, but the treacherous are trapped by their own intrigues.

The righteous is delivered from trouble, and the wicked comes to take his place.

The profits of the wicked are illusory; but those who sow righteousness gain a true reward.

Genuine righteousness leads to life, but the pursuer of evil goes to his own death.

The righteous desire only good, but what the wicked hope for brings wrath.

He who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous will flourish like sprouting leaves.

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

No one is made secure by wickedness, but the roots of the righteous will never be moved.

The plans of the righteous are just, but the schemes of the wicked are deceitful.