Bible Verses About Righteousness

to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things;

who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;

who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil;

who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths:

To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words;

who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God:

for her house leads down to death, her paths to the departed spirits.

None who go to her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life:

that you may walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.

For the perverse is an abomination to the LORD, but his friendship is with the upright.

Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death.

The LORD will not allow the soul of the righteous to go hungry, but he thrusts away the desire of the wicked.

The labor of the righteous leads to life. The increase of the wicked leads to sin.

What the wicked fear, will overtake them, but the desire of the righteous will be granted.

The righteous will never be removed, but the wicked will not dwell in the land.

The righteousness of the blameless will direct his way, but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.

The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them, but the unfaithful will be trapped by evil desires.

A righteous person is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked takes his place.

Wicked people earn deceitful wages, but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.

He who is truly righteous gets life. He who pursues evil gets death.

The desire of the righteous is only good. The expectation of the wicked is wrath.

He who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous shall flourish as the green leaf.

The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. He who is wise wins souls.

A man shall not be established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.

The thoughts of the righteous are just, but the advice of the wicked is deceitful.