- Learn to do good;
Seek justice,
Rebuke the oppressor,
Obtain justice for the orphan,
Plead for the widow’s case. - And it will be righteousness for us if we are careful to follow all this commandment before the Lord our God, just as He commanded us.
- Brothers and sisters, even if a person is caught in any wrongdoing, you who are spiritual are to restore such a person in a spirit of gentleness; each one looking to yourself, so that you are not tempted as well.
- Make me know Your ways, Lord;
Teach me Your paths. - I have seen that every labor and every skill which is done is the result of rivalry between a person and his neighbor. This too is futility and striving after wind.
- Each of us is to please his neighbor for his good, to his edification.
- Ill-gotten gains do not benefit,
But righteousness rescues from death. - Riches do not benefit on the day of wrath,
But righteousness rescues from death. - Blessed are those who have been persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
- The eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous,
And His ears are toward their cry for help. - For You created my innermost parts;
You wove me in my mother’s womb.
I will give thanks to You, because I am awesomely and wonderfully made;
Wonderful are Your works,
And my soul knows it very well. - In You, Lord, I have taken refuge;
Let me never be put to shame;
In Your righteousness rescue me. - But the one who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds will be revealed as having been performed in God.
- Who are you to judge the servant of another? To his own master he stands or falls; and he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.
- Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, so that He may exalt you at the proper time.
- Now then, do away with the foreign gods which are in your midst, and incline your hearts to the Lord, the God of Israel.
- Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him.”
- From the same mouth come both blessing and cursing. My brothers and sisters, these things should not be this way.
- Now accept the one who is weak in faith, but not to have quarrels over opinions.
- We are Jews by nature and not sinners from the Gentiles; nevertheless, knowing that a person is not justified by works of the Law but through faith in Christ Jesus, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the Law; since by works of the Law no flesh will be justified.
- Because by the works of the Law none of mankind will be justified in His sight; for through the Law comes knowledge of sin.
- He made Him who knew no sin to be sin in our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
- For with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation.
- There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and to destroy; but who are you, judging your neighbor?
- For Christ is the end of the Law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
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