A Righteous Man

For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.

The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.

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In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory. And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke. read more Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts. Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar: And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged. Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me. And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not. Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed. Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate, And the LORD have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land. show less

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.

And, behold, there was a man named Joseph, a counseller; and he was a good man, and a just:

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

The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.

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

And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:

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.

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

The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.

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

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