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Words of Wisdom
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Reference
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And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
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Genesis 7
:1
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Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
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Genesis 13
:9
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And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.
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Genesis 15
:6
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And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?
Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?
That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.
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Genesis 18
:23-26
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But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, LORD, wilt thou slay also a righteous nation?
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Genesis 20
:4
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And I bowed down my head, and worshipped the LORD, and blessed the LORD God of my master Abraham, which had led me in the right way to take my master's brother's daughter unto his son.
And now if ye will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me: and if not, tell me; that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left.
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Genesis 24
:48, 49
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And he said, Is not he rightly named Jacob? for he hath supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright; and, behold, now he hath taken away my blessing. And he said, Hast thou not reserved a blessing for me?
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Genesis 27
:36
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So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me.
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Genesis 30
:33
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And Judah acknowledged them, and said, She hath been more righteous than I; because that I gave her not to Shelah my son. And he knew her again no more.
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Genesis 38
:26
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And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel's right hand, and brought them near unto him.
And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh's head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh was the firstborn.
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Genesis 48
:13, 14
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And Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said unto them, I have sinned this time: the LORD is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.
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Exodus 9
:27
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And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
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Exodus 14
:22
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Thy right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O LORD, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.
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Exodus 15
:6
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Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.
And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.
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Exodus 23
:7, 8
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Then shalt thou kill the ram, and take of his blood, and put it upon the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and upon the tip of the right ear of his sons, and upon the thumb of their right hand, and upon the great toe of their right foot, and sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about.
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Exodus 29
:20
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And the right shoulder shall ye give unto the priest for an heave offering of the sacrifices of your peace offerings.
He among the sons of Aaron, that offereth the blood of the peace offerings, and the fat, shall have the right shoulder for his part.
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Leviticus 7
:32, 33
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And he slew it; and Moses took of the blood of it, and put it upon the tip of Aaron's right ear, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot.
And he brought Aaron's sons, and Moses put of the blood upon the tip of their right ear, and upon the thumbs of their right hands, and upon the great toes of their right feet: and Moses sprinkled the blood upon the altar round about.
And he took the fat, and the rump, and all the fat that was upon the inwards, and the caul above the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat, and the right shoulder:
And out of the basket of unleavened bread, that was before the LORD, he took one unleavened cake, and a cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, and put them on the fat, and upon the right shoulder:
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Leviticus 8
:23-26
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And the breasts and the right shoulder Aaron waved for a wave offering before the LORD; as Moses commanded.
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Leviticus 9
:21
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And the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot:
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Leviticus 14
:14
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Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbor.
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Leviticus 19
:15
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And the flesh of them shall be thine, as the wave breast and as the right shoulder are thine.
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Numbers 18
:18
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Let us pass, I pray thee, through thy country: we will not pass through the fields, or through the vineyards, neither will we drink of the water of the wells: we will go by the king's high way, we will not turn to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed thy borders.
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Numbers 20
:17
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And the angel of the LORD went further, and stood in a narrow place, where was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left.
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Numbers 22
:26
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Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!
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Numbers 23
:10
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The daughters of Zelophehad speak right: thou shalt surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father's brethren; and thou shalt cause the inheritance of their father to pass unto them.
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Numbers 27
:7
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And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.
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Deuteronomy 1
:16
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Let me pass through thy land: I will go along by the high way, I will neither turn unto the right hand nor to the left.
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Deuteronomy 2
:27
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And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?
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Deuteronomy 4
:8
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Ye shall observe to do therefore as the LORD your God hath commanded you: ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
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Deuteronomy 5
:32
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And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of the LORD: that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess the good land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers.
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Deuteronomy 6
:18
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Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the LORD thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the LORD hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive them out from before thee.
Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked people.
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Deuteronomy 9
:4-6
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Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes.
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Deuteronomy 12
:8
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When thou shalt hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep all his commandments which I command thee this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD thy God.
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Deuteronomy 13
:18
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Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
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Deuteronomy 16
:19
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According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do: thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall show thee, to the right hand, nor to the left.
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Deuteronomy 17
:11
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So shalt thou put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the LORD.
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Deuteronomy 21
:9
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In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the LORD thy God.
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Deuteronomy 24
:13
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If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.
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Deuteronomy 25
:1
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And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
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Deuteronomy 28
:14
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He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
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Deuteronomy 32
:4
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And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them.
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Deuteronomy 33
:2
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Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest.
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Joshua 1
:7
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That the waters which came down from above stood and rose up upon an heap very far from the city Adam, that is beside Zaretan: and those that came down toward the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, failed, and were cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho.
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Joshua 3
:16
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And now, behold, we are in thine hand: as it seemeth good and right unto thee to do unto us, do.
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Joshua 9
:25
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And the coast of Manasseh was from Asher to Michmethah, that lieth before Shechem; and the border went along on the right hand unto the inhabitants of Entappuah.
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Joshua 17
:7
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Be ye therefore very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that ye turn not aside therefrom to the right hand or to the left;
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Joshua 23
:6
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But Ehud made him a dagger which had two edges, of a cubit length; and he did gird it under his raiment upon his right thigh.
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Judges 3
:16
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They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the LORD, even the righteous acts toward the inhabitants of his villages in Israel: then shall the people of the LORD go down to the gates.
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Judges 5
:11
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And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon.
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Judges 7
:20
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Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.
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Judges 12
:6
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And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars upon which the house stood, and on which it was borne up, of the one with his right hand, and of the other with his left.
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Judges 16
:29
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In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
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Judges 17
:6
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In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
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Judges 21
:25
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And the kinsman said, I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I mar mine own inheritance: redeem thou my right to thyself; for I cannot redeem it.
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Ruth 4
:6
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And the kine took the straight way to the way of Bethshemesh, and went along the highway, lowing as they went, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them unto the border of Bethshemesh.
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1 Samuel 6
:12
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And Nahash the Ammonite answered them, On this condition will I make a covenant with you, that I may thrust out all your right eyes, and lay it for a reproach upon all Israel.
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1 Samuel 11
:2
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Now therefore stand still, that I may reason with you before the LORD of all the righteous acts of the LORD, which he did to you and to your fathers.
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1 Samuel 12
:7
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And he said to David, Thou art more righteous than I: for thou hast rewarded me good, whereas I have rewarded thee evil.
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1 Samuel 24
:17
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The LORD render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness; for the LORD delivered thee into my hand to day, but I would not stretch forth mine hand against the LORD's anointed.
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1 Samuel 26
:23
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And Asahel pursued after Abner; and in going he turned not to the right hand nor to the left from following Abner.
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2 Samuel 2
:19
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How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed? shall I not therefore now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?
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2 Samuel 4
:11
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And the king said, Is not the hand of Joab with thee in all this? And the woman answered and said, As thy soul liveth, my lord the king, none can turn to the right hand or to the left from ought that my lord the king hath spoken: for thy servant Joab, he bade me, and he put all these words in the mouth of thine handmaid:
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2 Samuel 14
:19
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And Absalom said unto him, See, thy matters are good and right; but there is no man deputed of the king to hear thee.
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2 Samuel 15
:3
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And he cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David: and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left.
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2 Samuel 16
:6
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For all of my father's house were but dead men before my lord the king: yet didst thou set thy servant among them that did eat at thine own table. What right therefore have I yet to cry any more unto the king?
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2 Samuel 19
:28
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And Joab said to Amasa, Art thou in health, my brother? And Joab took Amasa by the beard with the right hand to kiss him.
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2 Samuel 20
:9
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The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness: according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
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2 Samuel 22
:21
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And they passed over Jordan, and pitched in Aroer, on the right side of the city that lieth in the midst of the river of Gad, and toward Jazer:
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2 Samuel 24
:5
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Bathsheba therefore went unto king Solomon, to speak unto him for Adonijah. And the king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself unto her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a seat to be set for the king's mother; and she sat on his right hand.
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1 Kings 2
:19
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And Solomon said, Thou hast showed unto thy servant David my father great mercy, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.
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1 Kings 3
:6
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The door for the middle chamber was in the right side of the house: and they went up with winding stairs into the middle chamber, and out of the middle into the third.
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1 Kings 6
:8
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And he set up the pillars in the porch of the temple: and he set up the right pillar, and called the name thereof Jachin: and he set up the left pillar, and called the name thereof Boaz.
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1 Kings 7
:21
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Then hear thou in heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.
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1 Kings 8
:32
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Because that they have forsaken me, and have worshipped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in mine eyes, and to keep my statutes and my judgments, as did David his father.
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1 Kings 11
:33
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And rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it thee: and yet thou hast not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only which was right in mine eyes;
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1 Kings 14
:8
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Because David did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, and turned not aside from any thing that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
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1 Kings 15
:5
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And he said, Hear thou therefore the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.
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1 Kings 22
:19
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And it came to pass in the morning, that he went out, and stood, and said to all the people, Ye be righteous: behold, I conspired against my master, and slew him: but who slew all these?
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2 Kings 10
:9
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And the guard stood, every man with his weapons in his hand, round about the king, from the right corner of the temple to the left corner of the temple, along by the altar and the temple.
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2 Kings 11
:11
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And Jehoash did that which was right in the sight of the LORD all his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
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2 Kings 12
:2
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And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, yet not like David his father: he did according to all things as Joash his father did.
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2 Kings 14
:3
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And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah had done;
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2 Kings 15
:3
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Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did not that which was right in the sight of the LORD his God, like David his father.
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2 Kings 16
:2
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And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
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2 Kings 17
:9
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And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father did.
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2 Kings 18
:3
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And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left.
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2 Kings 22
:2
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And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.
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2 Kings 23
:13
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And his brother Asaph, who stood on his right hand, even Asaph the son of Berachiah, the son of Shimea,
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1 Chronicles 6
:39
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They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in hurling stones and shooting arrows out of a bow, even of Saul's brethren of Benjamin.
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1 Chronicles 12
:2
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And all the congregation said that they would do so: for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people.
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1 Chronicles 13
:4
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And he reared up the pillars before the temple, one on the right hand, and the other on the left; and called the name of that on the right hand Jachin, and the name of that on the left Boaz.
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2 Chronicles 3
:17
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He made also ten lavers, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them: such things as they offered for the burnt offering they washed in them; but the sea was for the priests to wash in.
And he made ten candlesticks of gold according to their form, and set them in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left.
He made also ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left. And he made an hundred basins of gold.
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2 Chronicles 4
:6-8
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Then hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, by requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way upon his own head; and by justifying the righteous, by giving him according to his righteousness.
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2 Chronicles 6
:23
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Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, The LORD is righteous.
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2 Chronicles 12
:6
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And Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of the LORD his God:
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2 Chronicles 14
:2
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Again he said, Therefore hear the word of the LORD; I saw the LORD sitting upon his throne, and all the host of heaven standing on his right hand and on his left.
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2 Chronicles 18
:18
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And he walked in the way of Asa his father, and departed not from it, doing that which was right in the sight of the LORD.
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2 Chronicles 20
:32
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And he set all the people, every man having his weapon in his hand, from the right side of the temple to the left side of the temple, along by the altar and the temple, by the king round about.
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2 Chronicles 23
:10
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And Joash did that which was right in the sight of the LORD all the days of Jehoiada the priest.
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2 Chronicles 24
:2
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And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, but not with a perfect heart.
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2 Chronicles 25
:2
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And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah did.
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2 Chronicles 26
:4
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And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Uzziah did: howbeit he entered not into the temple of the LORD. And the people did yet corruptly.
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2 Chronicles 27
:2
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Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: but he did not that which was right in the sight of the LORD, like David his father:
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2 Chronicles 28
:1
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And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father had done.
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2 Chronicles 29
:2
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And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and wrought that which was good and right and truth before the LORD his God.
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2 Chronicles 31
:20
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And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the ways of David his father, and declined neither to the right hand, nor to the left.
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2 Chronicles 34
:2
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Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.
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Ezra 8
:21
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O LORD God of Israel, thou art righteous: for we remain yet escaped, as it is this day: behold, we are before thee in our trespasses: for we cannot stand before thee because of this.
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Ezra 9
:15
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Then answered I them, and said unto them, The God of heaven, he will prosper us; therefore we his servants will arise and build: but ye have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem.
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Nehemiah 2
:20
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And Ezra the scribe stood upon a pulpit of wood, which they had made for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and Anaiah, and Urijah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchiah, and Hashum, and Hashbadana, Zechariah, and Meshullam.
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Nehemiah 8
:4
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And foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to give it, I say, to his seed, and hast performed thy words; for thou art righteous:
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Nehemiah 9
:8
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Then I brought up the princes of Judah upon the wall, and appointed two great companies of them that gave thanks, whereof one went on the right hand upon the wall toward the dung gate:
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Nehemiah 12
:31
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And said, If it please the king, and if I have favour in his sight, and the thing seem right before the king, and I be pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews which are in all the king's provinces:
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Esther 8
:5
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Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?
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Job 4
:7
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How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
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Job 6
:25
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If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
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Job 8
:6
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Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.
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Job 9
:15
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If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;
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Job 10
:15
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What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
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Job 15
:14
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The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
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Job 17
:9
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Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways perfect?
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Job 22
:3
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There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.
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Job 23
:7
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My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
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Job 27
:6
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I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.
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Job 29
:14
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Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
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Job 30
:12
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So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
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Job 32
:1
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He shall pray unto God, and he will be favourable unto him: and he shall see his face with joy: for he will render unto man his righteousness.
He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;
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Job 33
:26, 27
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For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.
Should I lie against my right? my wound is incurable without transgression.
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Job 34
:5, 6
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Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?
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Job 35
:2
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I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
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Job 36
:3
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Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?
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Job 40
:8
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And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.
Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.
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Job 42
:7, 8
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Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.
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Psalms 1
:5, 6
|
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Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.
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Psalms 4
:1
|
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Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face.
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Psalms 5
:8
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The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me.
Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.
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Psalms 7
:8, 9
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For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest in the throne judging right.
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Psalms 9
:4
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If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?
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Psalms 11
:3
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There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous.
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Psalms 14
:5
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He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.
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Psalms 15
:2
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I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
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Psalms 16
:8
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Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.
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Psalms 17
:1
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The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
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Psalms 18
:20
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The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.
The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.
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Psalms 19
:8, 9
|
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Now know I that the LORD saveth his anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand.
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Psalms 20
:6
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Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee.
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Psalms 21
:8
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They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done this.
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Psalms 22
:31
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He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
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Psalms 23
:3
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He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
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Psalms 24
:5
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In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes.
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Psalms 26
:10
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In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness.
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Psalms 31
:1
|
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Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart.
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Psalms 32
:11
|
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Rejoice in the LORD, O ye righteous: for praise is comely for the upright.
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Psalms 33
:1
|
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The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.
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Psalms 34
:15
|
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Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me.
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Psalms 35
:24
|
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Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.
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Psalms 36
:6
|
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And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.
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Psalms 37
:6
|
I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.
I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.
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Psalms 40
:9, 10
|
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For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.
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Psalms 44
:3
|
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And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.
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Psalms 45
:4
|
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God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early.
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Psalms 46
:5
|
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According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness.
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Psalms 48
:10
|
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And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah.
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Psalms 50
:6
|
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Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
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Psalms 51
:10
|
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Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.
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Psalms 52
:3
|
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Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.
|
Psalms 55
:22
|
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Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
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Psalms 58
:1
|
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That thy beloved may be delivered; save with thy right hand, and hear me.
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Psalms 60
:5
|
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My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me.
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Psalms 63
:8
|
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The righteous shall be glad in the LORD, and shall trust in him; and all the upright in heart shall glory.
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Psalms 64
:10
|
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By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation; who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea:
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Psalms 65
:5
|
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O let the nations be glad and sing for joy: for thou shalt judge the people righteously, and govern the nations upon earth. Selah.
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Psalms 67
:4
|
|
But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God: yea, let them exceedingly rejoice.
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Psalms 68
:3
|
Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.
Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.
|
Psalms 69
:27, 28
|
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Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline thine ear unto me, and save me.
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Psalms 71
:2
|
Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king's son.
He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment.
The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, by righteousness.
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Psalms 72
:1-3
|
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Nevertheless I am continually with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand.
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Psalms 73
:23
|
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Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom.
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Psalms 74
:11
|
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All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.
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Psalms 75
:10
|
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And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High.
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Psalms 77
:10
|
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For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.
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Psalms 78
:37
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And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.
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Psalms 80
:15
|
Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven.
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Psalms 85
:10, 11
|
|
Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
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Psalms 88
:12
|
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Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand.
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Psalms 89
:13
|
|
A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.
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Psalms 91
:7
|
|
The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
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Psalms 92
:12
|
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But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it.
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Psalms 94
:15
|
|
Say among the heathen that the LORD reigneth: the world also shall be established that it shall not be moved: he shall judge the people righteously.
|
Psalms 96
:10
|
|
Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne.
|
Psalms 97
:2
|
O sing unto the LORD a new song; for he hath done marvellous things: his right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory.
The LORD hath made known his salvation: his righteousness hath he openly shewed in the sight of the heathen.
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Psalms 98
:1, 2
|
|
The king's strength also loveth judgment; thou dost establish equity, thou executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob.
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Psalms 99
:4
|
|
The LORD executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.
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Psalms 103
:6
|
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Blessed are they that keep judgment, and he that doeth righteousness at all times.
|
Psalms 106
:3
|
|
And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.
|
Psalms 107
:7
|
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That thy beloved may be delivered: save with thy right hand, and answer me.
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Psalms 108
:6
|
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Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.
|
Psalms 109
:6
|
|
The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.
|
Psalms 110
:1
|
|
His work is honourable and glorious: and his righteousness endureth for ever.
|
Psalms 111
:3
|
Wealth and riches shall be in his house: and his righteousness endureth for ever.
Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.
|
Psalms 112
:3, 4
|
|
Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful.
|
Psalms 116
:5
|
The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous: the right hand of the LORD doeth valiantly.
The right hand of the LORD is exalted: the right hand of the LORD doeth valiantly.
|
Psalms 118
:15, 16
|
|
I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments.
|
Psalms 119
:7
|
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The LORD is thy keeper: the LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand.
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Psalms 121
:5
|
|
For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity.
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Psalms 125
:3
|
|
The LORD is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.
|
Psalms 129
:4
|
|
Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness; and let thy saints shout for joy.
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Psalms 132
:9
|
|
If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.
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Psalms 137
:5
|
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Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me: thou shalt stretch forth thine hand against the wrath of mine enemies, and thy right hand shall save me.
|
Psalms 138
:7
|
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Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.
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Psalms 139
:10
|
I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.
Surely the righteous shall give thanks unto thy name: the upright shall dwell in thy presence.
|
Psalms 140
:12, 13
|
|
Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.
|
Psalms 141
:5
|
|
I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.
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Psalms 142
:4
|
|
Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness.
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Psalms 143
:1
|
|
Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
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Psalms 144
:8
|
|
They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness, and shall sing of thy righteousness.
|
Psalms 145
:7
|
|
The LORD openeth the eyes of the blind: the LORD raiseth them that are bowed down: the LORD loveth the righteous:
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Psalms 146
:8
|
|
He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.
|
Proverbs 2
:7
|
|
Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour.
|
Proverbs 3
:16
|
|
I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths.
|
Proverbs 4
:11
|
|
Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things.
|
Proverbs 8
:6
|
|
To call passengers who go right on their ways:
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Proverbs 9
:15
|
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.
The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked.
|
Proverbs 10
:2, 3
|
Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.
The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness.
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Proverbs 11
:4-6
|
|
A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.
|
Proverbs 12
:3
|
A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame.
Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.
|
Proverbs 13
:5, 6
|
|
Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favour.
|
Proverbs 14
:9
|
|
In the house of the righteous is much treasure: but in the revenues of the wicked is trouble.
|
Proverbs 15
:6
|
|
Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.
|
Proverbs 16
:8
|
|
It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment.
|
Proverbs 18
:5
|
|
Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.
|
Proverbs 20
:11
|
|
Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD pondereth the hearts.
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Proverbs 21
:2
|
|
Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.
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Proverbs 23
:16
|
|
Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; spoil not his resting place:
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Proverbs 24
:15
|
|
Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.
|
Proverbs 25
:5
|
|
Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, which bewrayeth itself.
|
Proverbs 27
:16
|
|
The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.
|
Proverbs 28
:1
|
|
When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.
|
Proverbs 29
:2
|
|
Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.
|
Proverbs 31
:9
|
And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.
I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.
|
Ecclesiastes 3
:16, 17
|
|
Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
|
Ecclesiastes 4
:4
|
All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness.
Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself ?
|
Ecclesiastes 7
:15, 16
|
|
There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.
|
Ecclesiastes 8
:14
|
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.
All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
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Ecclesiastes 9
:1, 2
|
|
A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left.
|
Ecclesiastes 10
:2
|
|
His left hand is under my head, and his right hand doth embrace me.
|
Song of Solomon 2
:6
|
|
His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me.
|
Song of Solomon 8
:3
|
|
How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
|
Isaiah 1
:21
|
|
Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
|
Isaiah 3
:10
|
|
For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
|
Isaiah 5
:7
|
|
And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm:
|
Isaiah 9
:20
|
|
To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
|
Isaiah 10
:2
|
But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth: with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
|
Isaiah 11
:4, 5
|
|
And in mercy shall the throne be established: and he shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness.
|
Isaiah 16
:5
|
|
From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, even glory to the righteous. But I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.
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Isaiah 24
:16
|
|
Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in.
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Isaiah 26
:2
|
|
Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
|
Isaiah 28
:17
|
|
Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:
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Isaiah 30
:10
|
|
Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment.
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Isaiah 32
:1
|
|
The LORD is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath filled Zion with judgment and righteousness.
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Isaiah 33
:5
|
|
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.
|
Isaiah 41
:2
|
|
I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;
|
Isaiah 42
:6
|
|
He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?
|
Isaiah 44
:20
|
|
Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut;
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Isaiah 45
:1
|
Hearken unto me, ye stouthearted, that are far from righteousness:
I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not tarry: and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.
|
Isaiah 46
:12, 13
|
|
Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah, which swear by the name of the LORD, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness.
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Isaiah 48
:1
|
|
Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.
|
Isaiah 51
:1
|
|
He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
|
Isaiah 53
:11
|
|
For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.
|
Isaiah 54
:3
|
|
Thus saith the LORD, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.
|
Isaiah 56
:1
|
|
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.
|
Isaiah 57
:1
|
|
Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.
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Isaiah 58
:2
|
And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.
For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak.
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Isaiah 59
:16, 17
|
|
For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron: I will also make thy officers peace, and thine exactors righteousness.
|
Isaiah 60
:17
|
|
To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.
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Isaiah 61
:3
|
For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.
And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the LORD shall name.
|
Isaiah 62
:1, 2
|
|
Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.
|
Isaiah 63
:1
|
Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.
But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
|
Isaiah 64
:5, 6
|
|
Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?
|
Jeremiah 2
:21
|
|
And thou shalt swear, The LORD liveth, in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.
|
Jeremiah 4
:2
|
|
They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
|
Jeremiah 5
:28
|
|
But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the LORD.
|
Jeremiah 9
:24
|
|
But, O LORD of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause.
|
Jeremiah 11
:20
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Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
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Jeremiah 12
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As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
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Jeremiah 17
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But, O LORD of hosts, that triest the righteous, and seest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I opened my cause.
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Jeremiah 20
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Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no |
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