| The tongue of the righteous is like choice silver. The heart of the wicked is of little worth. | The tongue of the just is as choice silver: the heart of the wicked is little worth. |
| I don’t reject the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing! | I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. |
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| It shall be righteousness to us, if we observe to do all these commandments before Yahweh our God, as he has commanded us. | And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the Lord our God, as he hath commanded us. |
| Wake up righteously and don’t sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame. | Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame. |
| Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight; for through the law comes the knowledge of sin. | Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. |
| He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity. | He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly. |
| Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, and the righteous walk in them, but the rebellious stumble in them. | Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the Lord are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein. |
| Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it. | Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. |
| But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I will come out like gold. My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned away. | But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold. My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined. |
| Peter opened his mouth and said, “Truly I perceive that God doesn’t show favoritism; but in every nation he who fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to him.” | Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons: But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him. |
| I have taught you in the way of wisdom. I have led you in straight paths. | I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths. |
| The memory of the righteous is blessed, but the name of the wicked will rot. | The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot. |
| The prospect of the righteous is joy, but the hope of the wicked will perish. | The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish. |
| Yes, in the way of your judgments, Yahweh, we have waited for you. Your name and your renown are the desire of our soul. | Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O Lord, have we waited for thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee. |
| Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith. | Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith. |
| The Rock: his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he. | 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. |
| I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith. From now on, the crown of righteousness is stored up for me, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing. | I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing. |
| Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. | Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. |
| For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth. | For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth. |
| For you will bless the righteous. Yahweh, you will surround him with favor as with a shield. | For thou, Lord, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield. |
| That he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of his saints. | He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints. |
| Let your eyes look straight ahead. Fix your gaze directly before you. | Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee. |
| Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness. | Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness. |
| “For I have no pleasure in the death of him who dies,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Therefore turn yourselves, and live!” | For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye. |
| If you will diligently listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am Yahweh who heals you. | If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the Lord that healeth thee. |
