Bible Verses About Righteousness: Fruits of

Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:

To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;

Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;

Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;

Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:

To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;

Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.

For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.

None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.

That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.

¶ Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.

¶ The labour of the righteous tendeth to life: the fruit of the wicked to sin.

¶ The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.

The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness.

¶ The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward.

¶ As righteousness tendeth to life: so he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death.

¶ The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise.

¶ In the way of righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof there is no death.

¶ Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.

¶ Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.

¶ To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.

¶ The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it.

Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.

Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field.

And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.