Job 4:7
Have you ever seen destruction come to an upright man? or when were the god-fearing ever cut off?
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Job 4:7
Have you ever seen destruction come to an upright man? or when were the god-fearing ever cut off?
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Numbers 32:12
But only Caleb, the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and Joshua, the son of Nun: because they have been true to the Lord.
Deuteronomy 1:36
But only Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, he will see it; and to him and to his children I will give the land over which his feet have gone, because he has been true to the Lord with all his heart.
Joshua 14:8
My brothers, however, who went up with me, made the heart of the people like water: but I was true to the Lord with all my heart.
Joshua 14:9
And on that day Moses took an oath, saying, Truly the land where your feet have been placed will become a heritage for you and your children for ever, because you have been true to the Lord your God with all your heart.
Psalms 37:29
The upright will have the earth for their heritage, and will go on living there for ever.
Proverbs 11:31
If the upright man is rewarded on earth, how much more the evil-doer and the sinner!
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2 Samuel 14:15
And now it is my fear of the people which has made me come to say these words to my lord the king: and your servant said, I will put my cause before the king, and it may be that he will give effect to my request.
2 Samuel 14:17
Then your servant said, May the word of my lord the king give me peace! for my lord the king is as the angel of God in his hearing of good and bad: and may the Lord your God be with you!
Psalms 44:22
Truly, because of you we are put to death every day; we are numbered like sheep for destruction.
Ezekiel 14:19
Or if I send disease into that land, letting loose my wrath on it in blood, cutting off from it man and beast:
Ezekiel 14:20
Even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, by my life, says the Lord, they would not keep son or daughter safe; only themselves would they keep safe through their righteousness.
Ezekiel 14:21
For this is what the Lord has said: How much more when I send my four bitter punishments on Jerusalem, the sword and need of food and evil beasts and disease, cutting off from it man and beast?
Hebrews 11:36
And others were tested by being laughed at or by blows, and even with chains and prisons:
Hebrews 11:37
They were stoned, they were cut up with knives, they were tested, they were put to death with the sword, they went about in sheepskins and in goatskins; being poor and in pain and cruelly attacked,
Revelation 12:11
And they overcame him through the blood of the Lamb and the word of their witness; and loving not their lives they freely gave themselves up to death.
Revelation 13:7
And it was given to him to make war on the saints and to overcome them: and there was given to him authority over every tribe and people and language and nation.
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Job 1:8
And the Lord said to the Satan, Have you taken note of my servant Job, for there is no one like him on the earth, a man without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil?
Psalms 37:24
Even if he has a fall he will not be without help: for the hand of the Lord is supporting him.
Psalms 37:25
I have been young, and now am old, but I have not seen the good man without help, or his children looking for bread.
Psalms 37:37
Give attention to the good man, and take note of the upright; because the end of that man is peace.
Psalms 94:14
The Lord will not give up his people, or take away his support from his heritage;
Ecclesiastes 9:1
All this I took to heart, and my heart saw it all: that the upright and the wise and their works are in the hand of God; and men may not be certain if it will be love or hate; all is to no purpose before them.
Ecclesiastes 9:2
Because to all there is one event, to the upright man and to the evil, to the clean and to the unclean, to him who makes an offering and to him who makes no offering; as is the good so is the sinner; he who takes an oath is as he who has fear of it.
2 Peter 2:9
The Lord is able to keep the upright safe in the time of testing, and to keep evil-doers under punishment till the day of judging;
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Job 3:26
I have no peace, no quiet, and no rest; nothing but pain comes on me.
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Job 5:4
Now his children have no safe place, and they are crushed before the judges, for no one takes up their cause.
Job 5:5
Their produce is taken by him who has no food, and their grain goes to the poor, and he who is in need of water gets it from their spring.
Job 8:4
If your children have done evil against him, then their punishment is from his hand.
Job 20:18
He is forced to give back the fruit of his work, and may not take it for food; he has no joy in the profit of his trading.
Job 20:19
Because he has been cruel to the poor, turning away from them in their trouble; because he has taken a house by force which he did not put up;
Job 21:28
For you say, Where is the house of the ruler, and where is the tent of the evil-doer?
Job 22:20
Saying, Truly, their substance is cut off, and their wealth is food for the fire.
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Job 15:14
What is man, that he may be clean? and how may the son of woman be upright?
Job 15:31
Let him not put his hope in what is false, falling into error: for he will get deceit as his reward.
Job 15:32
His branch is cut off before its time, and his leaf is no longer green.
Job 15:33
He is like a vine whose grapes do not come to full growth, or an olive-tree dropping its flowers.
Job 15:34
For the band of the evil-doers gives no fruit, and the tents of those who give wrong decisions for reward are burned with fire.
Job 32:2
And Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was angry, burning with wrath against Job, because he seemed to himself more right than God;
Job 32:3
And he was angry with his three friends, because they had been unable to give him an answer, and had not made Job's sin clear.
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Job 2:9
And his wife said to him, Are you still keeping your righteousness? Say a curse against God, and put an end to yourself.
Job 16:17
Though my hands have done no violent acts, and my prayer is clean.
Job 21:14
Though they said to God, Go away from us, for we have no desire for the knowledge of your ways.
Job 21:15
What is the Ruler of all, that we may give him worship? and what profit is it to us to make prayer to him?
Psalms 26:5
I have been a hater of the band of wrongdoers, and I will not be seated among sinners.
Psalms 26:6
I will make my hands clean from sin; so will I go round your altar, O Lord;
Proverbs 15:8
The offering of the evil-doer is disgusting to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright man is his delight.
1 Timothy 2:8
It is my desire, then, that in every place men may give themselves to prayer, lifting up holy hands, without wrath or argument.
1 John 3:19
In this way we may be certain that we are true, and may give our heart comfort before him,
1 John 3:20
When our heart says that we have done wrong; because God is greater than our heart, and has knowledge of all things.
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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Job 4:2
If one says a word, will it be a weariness to you? but who is able to keep from saying what is in his mind?
Job 6:14
He whose heart is shut against his friend has given up the fear of the Ruler of all.
Job 11:2
Are all these words to go unanswered? and is a man seen to be right because he is full of talk?
Job 11:3
Are your words of pride to make men keep quiet? and are you to make sport, with no one to put you to shame?
Job 11:4
You may say, My way is clean, and I am free from sin in your eyes.
Job 13:7
Will you say in God's name what is not right, and put false words into his mouth?
Job 17:5
As for him who is false to his friend for a reward, light will be cut off from the eyes of his children.
Job 32:21
Let me not give respect to any man, or give names of honour to any living.
Job 32:22
For I am not able to give names of honour to any man; and if I did, my Maker would quickly take me away.
Job 36:4
For truly my words are not false; one who has all knowledge is talking with you.
John 16:2
They will put you out of the Synagogues: yes, the time is coming when whoever puts you to death will have the belief that he is doing God's pleasure.
Romans 3:5
But if the righteousness of God is supported by our wrongdoing what is to be said? is it wrong for God to be angry (as men may say)?
Romans 3:6
In no way: because if it is so, how is God able to be the judge of all the world?
Romans 3:7
But if, because I am untrue, God being seen to be true gets more glory, why am I to be judged as a sinner?
Romans 3:8
Let us not do evil so that good may come (a statement which we are falsely said by some to have made), because such behaviour will have its right punishment.
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Job 22:4
Is it because you give him honour that he is sending punishment on you and is judging you?
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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.
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