Bible Verses About Righteousness

To deliver thee from an evil way, From any speaking froward things,

Who are forsaking paths of uprightness, To walk in ways of darkness,

Who are rejoicing to do evil, They delight in frowardness of the wicked,

Whose paths are crooked, Yea, they are perverted in their ways.

To deliver thee from the strange woman, From the stranger who hath made smooth her sayings,

Who is forsaking the guide of her youth, And the covenant of her God hath forgotten.

For her house hath inclined unto death, And unto Rephaim her paths.

None going in unto her turn back, Nor do they reach the paths of life.

That thou dost go in the way of the good, And the paths of the righteous dost keep.

For an abomination to Jehovah is the perverted, And with the upright is His secret counsel.

Treasures of wickedness profit not, And righteousness delivereth from death.

Jehovah causeth not the soul of the righteous to hunger, And the desire of the wicked He thrusteth away.

The wage of the righteous is for life, The increase of the wicked for sin.

The feared thing of the wicked it meeteth him, And the desire of the righteous is given.

The righteous to the age is not moved, And the wicked inhabit not the earth.

The righteousness of the perfect maketh right his way, And by his wickedness doth the wicked fall.

The righteousness of the upright delivereth them, And in mischief the treacherous are captured.

The righteous from distress is drawn out, And the wicked goeth in instead of him.

The wicked is getting a lying wage, And whoso is sowing righteousness--a true reward.

Rightly is righteousness for life, And whoso is pursuing evil--for his own death.

The desire of the righteous is only good, The hope of the wicked is transgression.

Whoso is confident in his wealth he falleth, And as a leaf, the righteous flourish.

The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, And whoso is taking souls is wise.

A man is not established by wickedness, And the root of the righteous is not moved.

The thoughts of the righteous are justice, The counsels of the wicked--deceit.