Bible Verses About Uprightness

I know my God that thou provest hearts, and lovest simplicity, wherefore I also in the simplicity of my heart, have joyfully offered all these things: and I have seen with great joy thy people, which are here present, offer thee their offerings.

But the priests were few, and were not enough to flay the holocausts: wherefore the Levites their brethren helped them, till the work was ended, and priests were sanctified, for the Levites are sanctified with an easier rite than the priests.

If thou wilt walk clean and upright, he will presently awake unto thee, and will make the dwelling of thy justice peaceable:

He that is mocked by his friends as I, shall call upon God and he will hear him: for the simplicity of the just man is laughed to scorn.

The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried by the fire, purged from the earth, refined seven times.

I have said to the Lord, thou art my God, for thou hast no need of my goods.

I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity.

Therefore hath the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.

Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.

Set me, O Lord, a law in thy way, and guide me in the right path, because of my enemies.

For David, when he changed his countenance before Achimelech, who dismissed him, and he went his way.

But I, as a deaf man, heard not: and as a dumb man not opening his mouth.

For I am ready for scourges: and my sorrow is continually before me.

Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.

Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why dost thou disquiet me? Hope thou in God, for I will still give praise to him: the salvation of my countenance, and my God.

Offer to God the sacrifice of praise: and pay thy vows to the most High.

Unto the end, destroy not, for David for an inscription of a title, when Saul sent and watched his house to kill him.

In Judea God is known: his name is great in Israel.

So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.

Mercy and truth have met each other: justice and peace have kissed.

Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord: he shall delight exceedingly in his commandments.

Blessed be the name of the Lord, from henceforth now and for ever.

The Lord is high above all nations; and his glory above the heavens.

Turn again our captivity, O Lord, as a stream in the south.

Surely the righteous shall give thanks unto thy name: the upright shall dwell in thy presence.