Righteous Man

What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be Righteous?

A little that a Righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked.

So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the Righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.

The mouth of a Righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.

A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the root of the Righteous shall not be moved.

A Righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

• Loathsome
• Character

A Righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame.

The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the Righteous is made plain.

The Righteous man wisely considereth the house of the wicked: but God overthroweth the wicked for their wickedness.

Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the Righteous; spoil not his resting place: For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief. Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth: Lest the LORD see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him. read more Fret not thyself because of evil men, neither be thou envious at the wicked; For there shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle of the wicked shall be put out. My son, fear thou the LORD and the king: and meddle not with them that are given to change: For their calamity shall rise suddenly; and who knoweth the ruin of them both? show less

• Fountain
• Corrupt
• Spring

A Righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring.

• Bold
• Character
• Fearful

The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the Righteous are bold as a lion. For the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof: but by a man of understanding and knowledge the state thereof shall be prolonged. A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food. They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them. read more Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the LORD understand all things. Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich. Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous men shameth his father. show less

When Righteous men do rejoice, there is great glory: but when the wicked rise, a man is hidden.

In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare: but the Righteous doth sing and rejoice.

For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the Righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them.

• Stubble

Who raised up the Righteous man from the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings? he gave them as the dust to his sword, and as driven stubble to his bow.

The Righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the Righteous is taken away from the evil to come.

• Stumbling-block
• Stumbling

Again, When a Righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand.

Nevertheless if thou warn the Righteous man, that the Righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul.

But when the Righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.

When a Righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity that he hath done shall he die.

Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The righteousness of the Righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the Righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth.

• Happiness

Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more Righteous than he?

He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward; and he that receiveth a Righteous man in the name of a Righteous man shall receive a Righteous man's reward.

• Armies

Now when the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, Certainly this was a Righteous man.

For scarcely for a Righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.

For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made Righteous.

Knowing this, that the law is not made for a Righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a Righteous man availeth much.

(For that Righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his Righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)

• Advocate

My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous:

Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is Righteous, even as he is Righteous.