2461 verses about Righteousness

Then I consulted with myself, and contended with the nobles and the rulers, and said to them, “You exact usury, everyone of his brother.” I held a great assembly against them.

I said to them, “We, after our ability, have redeemed our brothers the Jews that were sold to the nations; and would you even sell your brothers, and should they be sold to us?” Then they held their peace, and found not a word to say.

Also I said, “The thing that you do is not good. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?

Please restore to them, even today, their fields, their vineyards, their olive groves, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, that you are charging them.”

Then they said, “We will restore them, and will require nothing of them. We will do so, even as you say.” Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they would do according to this promise.

But the former governors who were before me were supported by the people, and took bread and wine from them, plus forty shekels of silver; yes, even their servants ruled over the people; but I didn’t do so, because of the fear of God.

These searched for their genealogical records, but couldn’t find them. Therefore were they deemed disqualified and removed from the priesthood.

All the assembly of those who had come back out of the captivity made temporary shelters, and lived in the booths; for since the days of Jeshua the son of Nun to that day the children of Israel had not done so. There was very great gladness.

found his heart faithful before you, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, to give it to his offspring, and have performed your words; for you are righteous.

“You also came down on Mount Sinai, and spoke with them from heaven, and gave them right ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments,

“So the children went in and possessed the land, and you subdued before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them into their hands, with their kings and the peoples of the land, that they might do with them as they pleased.

However you are just in all that has come on us; for you have dealt truly, but we have done wickedly.

The princes of the people lived in Jerusalem. The rest of the people also cast lots, to bring one of ten to dwell in Jerusalem the holy city, and nine parts in the other cities.

Seraiah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the ruler of God’s house,

The priests and the Levites purified themselves; and they purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.

It grieved me severely. Therefore I threw all Tobiah’s household stuff out of the room.

Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said to them, “What evil thing is this that you do, and profane the Sabbath day?

I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the Sabbath day. Remember to me, my God, this also, and spare me according to the greatness of your loving kindness.

Esther said, “An adversary and an enemy, even this wicked Haman!” Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king’s wrath pacified.

On that day, King Ahasuerus gave the house of Haman, the Jews’ enemy, to Esther the queen. Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was to her.

Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, “See, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and him they have hanged on the gallows, because he laid his hand on the Jews.

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.

It was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts.” Job did so continually.

Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant, Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil.”

In all this, Job did not sin, nor charge God with wrongdoing.

Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause.”

Isn’t your piety your confidence? Isn’t the integrity of your ways your hope?

“Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?

‘Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?

Be it still my consolation, yes, let me exult in pain that doesn’t spare, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

Please return. Let there be no injustice. Yes, return again. My cause is righteous.

Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?

If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.

“Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man, neither will he uphold the evildoers.

“Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?

Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn’t answer him. I would make supplication to my judge.

Though I am righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me. Though I am blameless, it shall prove me perverse.

If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,

There is no umpire between us, that might lay his hand on us both.

If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still shall not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction.

For you say, ‘My doctrine is pure. I am clean in your eyes.’

If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away. Don’t let unrighteousness dwell in your tents.

Surely then you shall lift up your face without spot; Yes, you shall be steadfast, and shall not fear:

Will you speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him?

Will you show partiality to him? Will you contend for God?

He will surely reprove you, if you secretly show partiality.

Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.

This also shall be my salvation, that a godless man shall not come before him.

See now, I have set my cause in order. I know that I am righteous.

What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.

that he would maintain the right of a man with God, of a son of man with his neighbor!

Upright men shall be astonished at this. The innocent shall stir up himself against the godless.

Yet shall the righteous hold on his way. He who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger.

Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous. This is the place of him who doesn’t know God.”

Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

Who shall declare his way to his face? Who shall repay him what he has done?

Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that you are righteous? Or does it benefit him, that you make your ways perfect?

Is it for your piety that he reproves you, that he enters with you into judgment?

The righteous see it, and are glad. The innocent ridicule them,

If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up, if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents.

For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty, and shall lift up your face to God.

He will even deliver him who is not innocent. Yes, he shall be delivered through the cleanness of your hands.”

I would set my cause in order before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

There the upright might reason with him, so I should be delivered forever from my judge.

My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned away.

How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?

“As God lives, who has taken away my right, the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter

surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, neither shall my tongue utter deceit.

Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.

I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.

“Let my enemy be as the wicked. Let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.

he may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.

when my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured out streams of oil for me,

when I went out to the city gate, when I prepared my seat in the street.

For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it commended me:

Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him,

I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.

I was a father to the needy. The cause of him who I didn’t know, I searched out.

I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the prey out of his teeth.

My glory is fresh in me. My bow is renewed in my hand.’

For what is the portion from God above, and the heritage from the Almighty on high?

Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?

Doesn’t he see my ways, and count all my steps?

(let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);

if my step has turned out of the way, if my heart walked after my eyes, if any defilement has stuck to my hands,

What then shall I do when God rises up? When he visits, what shall I answer him?

“If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

if I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;

if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,

“If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him

oh that I had one to hear me! Behold, here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me! Let the accuser write my indictment!

Surely I would carry it on my shoulder; and I would bind it to me as a crown.

I would declare to him the number of my steps. as a prince would I go near to him.

if I have eaten its fruits without money, or have caused its owners to lose their life,

So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

Then the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel, the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was kindled against Job. His wrath was kindled because he justified himself rather than God.

My words shall utter the uprightness of my heart. That which my lips know they shall speak sincerely.

‘I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me.