Bible Verses About Righteousness

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.

For the froward is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous.

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

The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked.

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

¶ The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him: but the desire of the righteous shall be granted.

The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth.

¶ 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 righteous is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked cometh in his stead.

¶ 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 desire of the righteous is only good: but the expectation of the wicked is wrath.

¶ He that trusteth in his riches shall fall: but the righteous shall flourish as a branch.

¶ 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 thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.