- It is better to have little and be righteous
than to acquire great riches with injustice. - Finally, brethren, let your minds be filled with whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is pleasing, whatever is commendable, whatever is excellent, whatever is worthy of praise.
- There is no one on earth who is so righteous
that he does nothing but good and never sins. - And learn to do good.
Pursue justice and rescue the oppressed;
listen to the plea of the orphan
and defend the widow. - If we are diligent in observing all of these commandments before the Lord, our God, as he commanded of us, then this will be our righteousness.
- Make your ways known to me, O Lord;
teach me your paths. - Then I came to realize that all toil and skill in work derive from one person’s envy of another. This also is vanity and a chase after the wind.
- Each of us must consider his neighbor’s good for the purpose of building him up.
- Treasures obtained by wicked means profit nothing,
but a righteous life brings delivery from death. - Riches will be of no avail on the day of wrath,
but righteousness delivers from death. - Blessed are those who are persecuted in the cause of justice,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. - The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous,
and his ears are open to their cry. - You created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you because I am wonderfully made;
awesome are your works,
as I know very well. - In you, O Lord, I have taken refuge;
let me never be put to shame;
in your righteousness deliver me. - However, whoever lives by the truth
comes to the light
so that it may be clearly seen
that his deeds have been done in God. - Therefore, humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, so that at the proper time he may exalt you.
- He continued, “Then put away the foreign gods from among you. Bend your heart to the Lord, the God of Israel.”
- And the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I wish to make another creature who will be like him.”
- Out of the same mouth flow blessings and curses. This should not be so, my brethren.
- Welcome anyone whose faith is weak, but do not get into arguments about doubts.
- We ourselves are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners, yet we know that a man is justified not by the works of the Law but through faith in Jesus Christ. So we too came to believe in Christ Jesus so that we might be justified by faith in him and not by the works of the Law, for no one will be justified by the works of the Law.
- For no one can be regarded as justified in the sight of God by keeping the Law. The Law brings only the consciousness of sin.
- He made him who did not know sin to be sin for our sake, so that through him we might become the righteousness of God.
- For one believes in the heart and so is justified, and one confesses with the mouth and so is saved.
- There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the one who is able to save or to destroy. Who then are you to pass judgment on a neighbor?
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