Bible Verses About Uprightness

The way of the just is uprightness. You who are upright make the path of the righteous level.

He who walks righteously, and speaks blamelessly; He who despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil—

he will dwell on high. His place of defense will be the fortress of rocks. His bread will be supplied. His waters will be sure.

He enters into peace; they rest in their beds, each one who walks in his uprightness.

They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.

Shall it be said, O house of Jacob: “Is the Spirit of the LORD angry? Are these his doings? Don’t my words do good to him who walks blamelessly?”

The godly man has perished out of the earth, and there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net.

The best of them is like a brier. The most upright is worse than a thorn hedge. The day of your watchmen, even your visitation, has come; now is the time of their confusion.

Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.

But when I saw that they didn’t walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Peter before them all, “If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do?