1 Samuel 12:4
And they said, You have never been untrue to us or cruel to us; you have taken nothing from any man.
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1 Samuel 12:4
And they said, You have never been untrue to us or cruel to us; you have taken nothing from any man.
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Genesis 13:8
Then Abram said to Lot, Let there be no argument between me and you, and between my herdmen and your herdmen, for we are brothers.
Genesis 19:7
And he said, My brothers, do not this evil.
Genesis 31:23
And taking the men of his family with him, he went after him for seven days and overtook him in the hill-country of Gilead.
Joshua 7:23
And they took them from the tent and came back with them to Joshua and the children of Israel, and put them before the Lord.
Psalms 37:6
And he will make your righteousness be seen like the light, and your cause like the shining of the sun.
Matthew 18:16
But if he will not give ear to you, take with you one or two more, that by the lips of two or three witnesses every word may be made certain.
1 Corinthians 6:4
If then there are questions to be judged in connection with the things of this life, why do you put them in the hands of those who have no position in the church?
1 Corinthians 6:5
I say this to put you to shame. Is there not among you one wise man who may be able to give a decision between his brothers?
2 Corinthians 8:21
For the business has been so ordered by us as to have the approval, not only of the Lord, but of men.
Hebrews 13:18
Make prayers for us, for we are certain that our hearts are free from the sense of sin, desiring the right way of life in all things.
1 Peter 2:12
Being of good behaviour among the Gentiles; so that though they say now that you are evil-doers, they may see your good works and give glory to God when he comes to be their judge.
1 Peter 3:16
Being conscious that you have done no wrong; so that those who say evil things about your good way of life as Christians may be put to shame.
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Exodus 40:16
And Moses did this; as the Lord gave him orders, so he did.
Deuteronomy 4:5
I have been teaching you laws and decisions, as I was ordered to do by the Lord my God, so that you might keep them in the land to which you are going to take it for your heritage.
Deuteronomy 33:9
Who said of his father, Who is he? and of his mother, I have not seen her; he kept himself separate from his brothers and had no knowledge of his children: for they have given ear to your word and kept your agreement.
Psalms 99:7
His voice came to them from the pillar of cloud; they kept his witness, and the law which he gave them.
Proverbs 28:9
As for the man whose ear is turned away from hearing the law, even his prayer is disgusting.
Hebrews 3:2
Who kept faith with God who gave him his place, even as Moses did in all his house.
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Numbers 3:48
And this money, the price of those over the number of the Levites, is to be given to Aaron and his sons.
Numbers 3:51
And he gave the money to Aaron and his sons, as the Lord had said.
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Numbers 12:3
Now the man Moses was more gentle than any other man on earth.
Isaiah 1:26
And I will give you judges again as at the first, and wise guides as in the past; then you will be named, The Town of Righteousness, the true town.
Isaiah 32:1
See, a king will be ruling in righteousness, and chiefs will give right decisions.
Isaiah 32:2
And a man will be as a safe place from the wind, and a cover from the storm; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shade of a great rock in a waste land.
Isaiah 60:17
In place of brass, I will give gold, and for iron silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron: and I will make Peace your judge, and Righteousness your overseer.
Isaiah 60:18
Violent acts will no longer be seen in your land, wasting or destruction in your limits; but your walls will be named, Salvation, and your doors Praise.
Jeremiah 33:7
And I will let the fate of Judah and of Israel be changed, building them up as at first.
Jeremiah 33:15
In those days and at that time, I will let a Branch of righteousness come up for David; and he will be a judge in righteousness in the land.
Jeremiah 33:16
In those days, Judah will have salvation and Jerusalem will be safe: and this is the name which will be given to her: The Lord is our righteousness.
Jeremiah 33:17
For the Lord has said, David will never be without a man to take his place on the seat of the kingdom of Israel;
Ezekiel 34:23
And I will put over them one keeper, and he will give them food, even my servant David; he will give them food and be their keeper.
Ezekiel 34:24
And I the Lord will be their God and my servant David their ruler; I the Lord have said it.
Ezekiel 37:24
And my servant David will be king over them; and they will all have one keeper: and they will be guided by my orders and will keep my rules and do them.
Ezekiel 37:25
And they will be living in the land which I gave to Jacob, my servant, in which your fathers were living; and they will go on living there, they and their children and their children's children, for ever: and David, my servant, will be their ruler for ever.
Ezekiel 45:8
And this will be his heritage in Israel: and my rulers will no longer be cruel masters to my people; but they will give the land as a heritage to the children of Israel by their tribes.
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1 Samuel 3:19
And Samuel became older, and the Lord was with him and let not one of his words be without effect.
1 Samuel 3:20
And it was clear to all Israel from Dan to Beer-sheba that Samuel had been made a prophet of the Lord.
1 Samuel 3:21
And the Lord was seen again in Shiloh; for the Lord gave to Samuel in Shiloh the revelation of his word.
1 Samuel 4:1
Now at that time the Philistines came together to make war against Israel, and the men of Israel went out to war against the Philistines and took up their position at the side of Eben-ezer: and the Philistines put their forces in position in Aphek.
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1 Samuel 5:6
But the hand of the Lord was hard on the people of Ashdod and he sent disease on them through all the country of Ashdod.
1 Samuel 5:7
And when the men of Ashdod saw how it was, they said, Let not the ark of the God of Israel be with us, for his hand is hard on us and on Dagon our god.
1 Samuel 5:8
So they sent for all the lords of the Philistines to come together there, and said, What are we to do with the ark of the God of Israel? And their answer was, Let the ark of the God of Israel be taken away to Gath. So they took the ark of the God of Israel away.
1 Samuel 5:9
But after they had taken it away, the hand of the Lord was stretched out against the town for its destruction: and the signs of disease came out on all the men of the town, small and great.
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1 Samuel 12:19
And all the people said to Samuel, Make prayer for us to the Lord your God so that death may not overtake us: for in addition to all our sins we have done this evil, in desiring a king.
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1 Samuel 12:20
Then Samuel said to the people, Have no fear: truly you have done evil, but do not be turned away from the Lord; be his servants with all your heart;
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1 Samuel 25:1
And death came to Samuel; and all Israel came together, weeping for him, and put his body in its resting-place in his house at Ramah. Then David went down to the waste land of Maon.
Proverbs 16:31
The grey head is a crown of glory, if it is seen in the way of righteousness.
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1 Chronicles 15:14
So the priests and the Levites made themselves holy to take up the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel.
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2 Chronicles 9:8
Praise be to the Lord your God whose pleasure it was to put you on the seat of his kingdom to be king for the Lord your God: because, in his love for Israel, it was the purpose of your God to make them strong for ever, he made you king over them, to be their judge in righteousness.
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2 Chronicles 31:20
This Hezekiah did through all Judah; he did what was good and right and true before the Lord his God.
2 Chronicles 31:21
And for everything he undertook, in connection with the work of the house of God and his law and orders, he got directions from God and did it with serious purpose; and things went well for him.
Job 23:11
My feet have gone in his steps; I have kept in his way, without turning to one side or to the other.
Psalms 18:20
The Lord gives me the reward of my righteousness, because my hands are clean before him.
Psalms 18:21
For I have kept the ways of the Lord; I have not been turned away in sin from my God.
Psalms 18:22
For all his decisions were before me, and I did not put away his laws from me.
Psalms 18:23
And I was upright before him, and I kept myself from sin.
Psalms 19:13
Keep your servant back from sins of pride; let them not have rule over me: then will I be upright and free from great sin.
Psalms 26:1
Of David. O Lord, be my judge, for my behaviour has been upright: I have put my faith in the Lord, I am not in danger of slipping.
Psalms 26:11
But as for me, I will go on in my upright ways: be my saviour, and have mercy on me.
Isaiah 38:3
O Lord, keep in mind how I have been true to you with all my heart, and have done what is good in your eyes. And Hezekiah gave way to bitter weeping.
Luke 1:6
They were upright in the eyes of God, keeping all the rules and orders of God, and doing no wrong.
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Joshua 22:22
God, even God the Lord, God, even God the Lord, he sees, and Israel will see--if it is in pride or in sin against the Lord,
Job 1:1
There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. He was without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil.
Job 31:38
If my land has made an outcry against me, or the ploughed earth has been in sorrow;
Job 31:39
If I have taken its produce without payment, causing the death of its owners;
Job 31:40
Then in place of grain let thorns come up, and in place of barley evil-smelling plants.
Psalms 7:3
O Lord my God, if I have done this; if my hands have done any wrong;
Psalms 7:4
If I have given back evil to him who did evil to me, or have taken anything from him who was against me without cause;
Psalms 7:5
Let my hater go after my soul and take it; let my life be crushed to the earth, and my honour into the dust. (Selah.)
Acts 18:14
But when Paul was about to say something, Gallio said to the Jews, If this was anything to do with wrongdoing or crime, there would be a reason for me to give you a hearing:
Acts 25:11
If, then, I am a wrongdoer and there is a cause of death in me, I am ready for death: if it is not as they say against me, no man may give me up to them. Let my cause come before Caesar.
1 John 3:21
My loved ones, if our heart does not say that we have done wrong, we have no fear before him;
1 John 3:22
And he gives us all our requests, because we keep his laws and do the things which are pleasing in his eyes.
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Psalms 18:24
Because of this the Lord has given me the reward of my righteousness, because my hands are clean in his eyes.
Psalms 44:18
Our hearts have not gone back, and our steps have not been turned out of your way;
Proverbs 11:6
The righteousness of the upright will be their salvation, but the false will themselves be taken in their evil designs.
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Exodus 18:21
But for the rest, take from among the people able men, such as have the fear of God, true men hating profits wrongly made; and put such men over them, to be captains of thousands, captains of hundreds and of fifties and of tens;
Deuteronomy 16:18
You are to make judges and overseers in all your towns which the Lord your God gives you, for every tribe: and they are to be upright men, judging the people in righteousness.
Psalms 26:9
Let not my soul be numbered among sinners, or my life among men of blood;
Psalms 26:10
In whose hands are evil designs, and whose right hands take money for judging falsely.
Isaiah 1:23
Your chiefs have gone against the Lord, they have become friends of thieves; every one of them is looking for profit and going after rewards; they do not give right decisions for the child who has no father, and they do not let the cause of the widow come before them.
Isaiah 33:15
He whose ways are true, and whose words are upright; he who gives no thought to the profits of false acts, whose hands have not taken rewards, who will have no part in putting men to death, and whose eyes are shut against evil;
Zephaniah 3:3
Her rulers are like loud-voiced lions in her; her judges are wolves of the evening, crushing up the bones before the morning.
1 Timothy 3:3
Not quickly moved to wrath or blows, but gentle; no fighter, no lover of money;
1 Timothy 6:9
But those who have a desire for wealth are falling into danger, and are taken as in a net by a number of foolish and damaging desires, through which men are overtaken by death and destruction.
1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is a root of all evil: and some whose hearts were fixed on it have been turned away from the faith, and been wounded with unnumbered sorrows.
1 Timothy 6:11
But you, O man of God, keep yourself from these things, and go after righteousness, religion, faith, love, a quiet mind, gentle behaviour.
James 2:6
But you have put the poor man to shame. Are not the men of wealth rulers over you? do they not take you by force before their judges?
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Psalms 37:5
Put your life in the hands of the Lord; have faith in him and he will do it.
Daniel 6:4
Then the chief rulers and the captains were looking for some cause for putting Daniel in the wrong in connection with the kingdom, but they were unable to put forward any wrongdoing or error against him; because he was true, and no error or wrong was to be seen in him.
1 Peter 2:15
Because it is God's pleasure that foolish and narrow-minded men may be put to shame by your good behaviour:
3 John 1:12
Demetrius has the approval of all men and of what is true: and we give the same witness, and you are certain that our witness is true.
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Proverbs 30:15
The night-spirit has two daughters, Give, give. There are three things which are never full, even four which never say, Enough:
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Proverbs 30:16
The underworld, and the woman without a child; the earth which never has enough water, and the fire which never says, Enough.
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2 Corinthians 4:2
And we have given up the secret things of shame, not walking in false ways, and not making use of the word of God with deceit; but by the revelation of what is true, as before God, we have the approval of every man's sense of right and wrong.
2 Corinthians 12:15
And I will gladly give all I have for your souls. If I have the more love for you, am I to be loved the less?
2 Corinthians 12:16
But let it be so, that I was not a trouble to you myself; but (someone may say) being false, I took you with deceit.
1 Thessalonians 1:5
Because our good news came to you, not in word only, but in power, and in the Holy Spirit, so that you were completely certain of it; even as you saw what our behaviour to you was like from our love to you.
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Nehemiah 5:14
Now from the time when I was made ruler of the people in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year till the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes the king, for twelve years, I and my servants have never taken the food which was the right of the ruler.
Acts 20:19
Doing the Lord's work without pride, through all the sorrow and troubles which came on me because of the evil designs of the Jews:
Acts 20:26
And so I say to you this day that I am clean from the blood of all men.
Acts 20:35
In all things I was an example to you of how, in your lives, you are to give help to the feeble, and keep in memory the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, There is a greater blessing in giving than in getting.
Romans 4:12
And the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who keep to the way of that faith which our father Abraham had before he underwent circumcision.
1 Corinthians 9:18
What then is my reward? This, that when I am giving the good news, I may give it without payment, not making use of my rights as a preacher of the good news.
2 Corinthians 5:11
Having in mind, then, the fear of the Lord, we put these things before men, but God sees our hearts; and it is my hope that we may seem right in your eyes.
2 Corinthians 11:9
And when I was present with you, and was in need, I let no man be responsible for me; for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, gave me whatever was needed; and in everything I kept myself from being a trouble to you, and I will go on doing so.
2 Corinthians 11:11
Why? because I have no love for you? let God be judge.
2 Corinthians 11:31
The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, to whom be praise for ever, is witness that the things which I say are true.
2 Corinthians 12:19
It may seem to you that all this time we have been attempting to put ourselves in the right; but we are saying these things before God in Christ. For all things, dear brothers, are for your profit.
1 Peter 2:21
This is God's purpose for you: because Jesus himself underwent punishment for you, giving you an example, so that you might go in his footsteps:
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Ezekiel 22:27
Her rulers in her are like wolves violently taking their food; putting men to death and causing the destruction of souls, so that they may get their profit.
Hebrews 11:16
But now their desire is for a better country, that is to say, for one in heaven; and so it is no shame to God to be named their God; for he has made ready a town for them.
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Leviticus 25:17
And do no wrong, one to another, but let the fear of your God be before you; for I am the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 28:33
The fruit of your land and all the work of your hands will be food for a nation which is strange to you and to your fathers; you will only be crushed down and kept under for ever:
Job 24:3
They send away the ass of him who has no father, they take the widow's ox for debt.
Job 31:21
If my hand had been lifted up against him who had done no wrong, when I saw that I was supported by the judges;
Proverbs 22:22
Do not take away the property of the poor man because he is poor, or be cruel to the crushed ones when they come before the judge:
Jeremiah 7:6
If you are not cruel to the man from a strange country, and to the child without a father, and to the widow, and do not put the upright to death in this place, or go after other gods, causing damage to yourselves:
Amos 4:1
Give ear to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are in the hill of Samaria, by whom the poor are kept down, and those in need are crushed; who say to their lords, Get out the wine and give us drink.
Amos 5:12
For I have seen how your evil-doing is increased and how strong are your sins, you troublers of the upright, who take rewards and do wrong to the cause of the poor in the public place.
Zephaniah 3:1
Sorrow to her who is uncontrolled and unclean, the cruel town!
1 Thessalonians 4:6
And that no man may make attempts to get the better of his brother in business: for the Lord is the judge in all these things, as we said to you before and gave witness.
2 Peter 2:14
Having eyes full of evil desire, never having enough of sin; turning feeble souls out of the true way; they are children of cursing, whose hearts are well used to bitter envy;
2 Peter 2:15
Turning out of the true way, they have gone wandering in error, after the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who was pleased to take payment for wrongdoing;
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