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.
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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.
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Genesis 17:1
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord came to him, and said, I am God, Ruler of all; go in my ways and be upright in all things,
Deuteronomy 28:1
Now if you give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and keep with care all these orders which I have given you today, then the Lord your God will put you high over all the nations of the earth:
1 Kings 2:4
So that the Lord may give effect to what he said of me, If your children give attention to their ways, living uprightly before me with all their heart and their soul, you will never be without a man to be king in Israel.
1 Kings 3:6
And Solomon said, Great was your mercy to David my father, as his life before you was true and upright and his heart was true to you; and you have kept for him this greatest mercy, a son to take his place this day.
1 Kings 3:14
And if you go on in my ways, keeping my laws and my orders as your father David did, I will give you a long life.
1 Kings 8:25
So now, O Lord, the God of Israel, let your word to your servant David, my father, come true, when you said, You will never be without a man to take his place on the seat of the kingdom of Israel before me, if only your children give attention to their ways, walking before me as you have done.
1 Kings 9:4
As for you, if you will go on your way before me, as David your father did, uprightly and with a true heart, doing what I have given you orders to do, keeping my laws and my decisions;
1 Kings 11:4
For it came about that when Solomon was old, his heart was turned away to other gods by his wives; and his heart was no longer true to the Lord his God as the heart of his father David had been.
1 Kings 11:6
And Solomon did evil in the eyes of the Lord, not walking in the Lord's ways with all his heart as David his father did.
1 Kings 11:38
And if you give attention to the orders I give you, walking in my ways and doing what is right in my eyes and keeping my laws and my orders as David my servant did; then I will be with you, building up for you a safe house, as I did for David, and I will give Israel to you.
1 Kings 14:8
And took the kingdom away by force from the seed of David and gave it to you, you have not been like my servant David, who kept my orders, and was true to me with all his heart, doing only what was right in my eyes.
1 Kings 15:5
Because David did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, and never in all his life went against his orders, but only in the question of Uriah the Hittite.
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Genesis 31:42
If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, you would have sent me away with nothing in my hands. But God has seen my troubles and the work of my hands, and this night he kept you back.
Genesis 31:53
May the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, be our judge. Then Jacob took an oath by the Fear of his father Isaac.
Psalms 9:4
For you gave approval to my right and my cause; you were seated in your high place judging in righteousness.
Psalms 10:18
To give decision for the child without a father and for the broken-hearted, so that the man of the earth may no longer be feared.
Psalms 35:23
Be awake, O Lord, be moved to take up my cause, my God and my Lord.
Proverbs 23:11
For their saviour is strong, and he will take up their cause against you.
Jeremiah 50:34
Their saviour is strong; the Lord of armies is his name: he will certainly take up their cause, so that he may give rest to the earth and trouble to the people of Babylon.
Lamentations 3:59
O Lord, you have seen my wrong; be judge in my cause.
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Deuteronomy 26:13
And say before the Lord your God, I have taken all the holy things out of my house and have given them to the Levite, and the man from a strange land, and him who has no father, and the widow, as you have given me orders: I have kept in mind all your orders, in nothing have I gone against them:
1 John 3:17
But if a man has this world's goods, and sees that his brother is in need, and keeps his heart shut against his brother, how is it possible for the love of God to be in him?
1 John 3:18
My little children, do not let our love be in word and in tongue, but let it be in act and in good faith.
1 John 3:19
In this way we may be certain that we are true, and may give our heart comfort before him,
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1 Samuel 22:7
Then Saul said to his servants who were there about him, Give ear now, you Benjamites; will the son of Jesse give to every one of you fields and vine-gardens, will he make you all captains of hundreds and captains of thousands;
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1 Samuel 22:8
That all of you have made designs against me, and not one of you gave me word when my son made an agreement with the son of Jesse, and not one of you has pity for me or has made my eyes open to the fact that my servant has been moved by my son against me, as at this day?
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1 Samuel 24:9
And David said to Saul, Why do you give any attention to those who say that it is my desire to do you wrong?
1 Samuel 24:11
And see, my father, see the skirt of your robe in my hand: for the fact that I took off the skirt of your robe and did not put you to death is witness that I have no evil purpose, and I have done you no wrong, though you are waiting for my life to take it.
1 Samuel 24:12
May the Lord be judge between me and you, and may the Lord give me my rights against you, but my hand will never be lifted up against you.
1 Samuel 24:13
There is an old saying, From the evil-doer comes evil: but my hand will never be lifted up against you.
1 Samuel 24:15
So let the Lord be judge, and give a decision between me and you, and see and give support to my cause, and keep me from falling into your hands.
1 Samuel 26:23
And the Lord will give to every man the reward of his righteousness and his faith: because the Lord gave you into my hands today, and I would not put out my hand against the man who has been marked with the holy oil.
Daniel 6:22
My God has sent his angel to keep the lions' mouths shut, and they have done me no damage: because I was seen to be without sin before him; and further, before you, O King, I have done no wrong.
Acts 25:10
And Paul said, I am before the seat of Caesar's authority where it is right for me to be judged: I have done no wrong to the Jews, as you are well able to see.
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.
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2 Chronicles 7:17
And as for you, if you will go on your way before me as David your father did, doing whatever I have given you orders to do and keeping my laws and my decisions:
2 Chronicles 7:18
Then I will make strong the seat of your kingdom, as I gave my word to David your father, saying, You will never be without a man to be ruler in Israel.
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.
Job 23:12
I have never gone against the orders of his lips; the words of his mouth have been stored up in my heart.
Proverbs 19:1
Better is the poor man whose ways are upright, than the man of wealth whose ways are twisted.
Isaiah 30:21
And at your back, when you are turning to the right hand or to the left, a voice will be sounding in your ears, saying, This is the way in which you are to go.
Zechariah 3:7
These are the words of the Lord of armies: If you will go in my ways and keep what I have put in your care, then you will be judge over my Temple and have the care of my house, and I will give you the right to come in among those who are there.
1 Thessalonians 4:1
And last of all, the prayer which we make to you from our heart and in the name of the Lord Jesus, is this: that as we made clear to you what sort of behaviour is pleasing to God, as in fact you are doing now, so you will go on in these ways, but more and more.
1 Thessalonians 4:2
Because you have in mind the orders we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
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 1:21
With nothing I came out of my mother's body, and with nothing I will go back there; the Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; let the Lord's name be praised.
Job 1:22
In all this Job did no sin, and did not say that God's acts were foolish.
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Job 13:21
Take your hand far away from me; and let me not be overcome by fear of you.
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Job 13:22
Then at the sound of your voice I will give answer; or let me put forward my cause for you to give me an answer.
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Psalms 3:5
I took my rest in sleep, and then again I was awake; for the Lord was my support.
Psalms 4:8
I will take my rest on my bed in peace, because you only, Lord, keep me safe.
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Psalms 17:2
Be my judge; for your eyes see what is right.
Psalms 17:4
As for the works of men, by the word of your lips I have kept myself from the ways of the violent.
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Psalms 15:1
A Psalm. Of David. Lord, who may have a resting-place in your tent, a living-place on your holy hill?
Psalms 24:4
He who has clean hands and a true heart; whose desire has not gone out to foolish things, who has not taken a false oath.
Psalms 106:3
Happy are they whose decisions are upright, and he who does righteousness at all times.
Isaiah 1:19
If you will give ear to my word and do it, the good things of the land will be yours;
Isaiah 56:2
Happy is the man who does this, and the son of man whose behaviour is so ordered; who keeps the Sabbath holy, and his hand from doing any evil.
Malachi 2:6
True teaching was in his mouth, and no evil was seen on his lips: he was walking with me in peace and righteousness, turning numbers of people away from evil-doing.
John 7:17
If any man is ready to do God's pleasure he will have knowledge of the teaching and of where it comes from--from God or from myself.
1 Corinthians 15:58
For this cause, my dear brothers, be strong in purpose and unmoved, ever giving yourselves to the work of the Lord, because you are certain that your work is not without effect in the Lord.
Galatians 2:14
But when I saw that they were not living uprightly in agreement with the true words of the good news, I said to Cephas before them all, If you, being a Jew, are living like the Gentiles, and not like the Jews, how will you make the Gentiles do the same as the Jews?
1 Peter 2:22
Who did no evil, and there was no deceit in his mouth:
2 Peter 1:10
For this reason, my brothers, take all the more care to make your selection and approval certain; for if you do these things you will never have a fall:
1 John 3:7
My little children, let no man take you out of the true way: he who does righteousness is upright, even as he is upright;
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Psalms 26:7
That I may give out the voice of praise, and make public all the wonders which you have done.
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Psalms 26:8
Lord, your house has been dear to me, and the resting-place of your glory.
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Psalms 2:12
For fear that he may be angry, causing destruction to come on you, because he is quickly moved to wrath. Happy are all those who put their faith in him.
Psalms 7:11
God is the judge of the upright, and is angry with the evil-doers every day.
Psalms 27:1
Of David. The Lord is my light and my salvation; who is then a cause of fear to me? the Lord is the strength of my life; who is a danger to me?
Psalms 31:1
To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David. In you, O Lord, have I put my hope; let me never be shamed; keep me safe in your righteousness.
Psalms 31:14
But I had faith in you, O Lord; I said, You are my God.
Psalms 33:20
Our souls are waiting for the Lord; he is our help and our salvation.
Psalms 43:2
You are the God of my strength; why have you put me from you? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters?
Psalms 75:7
But God is the judge, putting down one, and lifting up another.
Psalms 146:6
Who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all things in them; who keeps faith for ever:
Jeremiah 17:7
A blessing is on the man who puts his faith in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is.
Jeremiah 17:8
For he will be like a tree planted by the waters, pushing out its roots by the stream; he will have no fear when the heat comes, but his leaf will be green; in a dry year he will have no care, and will go on giving fruit.
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1 Samuel 2:3
Say no more words of pride; let not uncontrolled sayings come out of your mouths: for the Lord is a God of knowledge, by him acts are judged.
1 Samuel 2:9
He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the evil-doers will come to their end in the dark night, for by strength no man will overcome.
Job 13:15
Truly, he will put an end to me; I have no hope; but I will not give way in argument before him;
Psalms 1:3
He will be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, which gives its fruit at the right time, whose leaves will ever be green; and he will do well in all his undertakings.
Psalms 1:6
Because the Lord sees the way of the upright, but the end of the sinner is destruction.
Psalms 37:37
Give attention to the good man, and take note of the upright; because the end of that man is peace.
Psalms 62:6
He only is my Rock and my salvation; he is my high tower; I will not be greatly moved.
Psalms 94:18
If I say, My foot is slipping; your mercy, O Lord, is my support.
Psalms 139:18
If I made up their number, it would be more than the grains of sand; when I am awake, I am still with you.
Isaiah 26:7
The way of the good man is straight; the road of the upright is made smooth by you.
Daniel 5:27
Tekel; you have been put in the scales and seen to be under weight.
Romans 2:7
To those who go on with good works in the hope of glory and honour and salvation from death, he will give eternal life:
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1 Samuel 30:6
And David was greatly troubled; for the people were talking of stoning him, because their hearts were bitter, every man sorrowing for his sons and his daughters: but David made himself strong in the Lord his God.
2 Chronicles 20:12
O our God, will you not be their judge? for our strength is not equal to this great army which is coming against us; and we are at a loss what to do: but our eyes are on you.
Psalms 13:5
But I have had faith in your mercy; my heart will be glad in your salvation.
Psalms 20:7
Some put their faith in carriages and some in horses; but we will be strong in the name of the Lord our God.
Psalms 20:8
They are bent down and made low; but we have been lifted up.
Psalms 61:4
I will make your tent my resting-place for ever: I will keep myself under the cover of your wings. (Selah.)
Psalms 61:6
You will give the king long life; and make his years go on through the generations.
Psalms 61:7
May the seat of his authority be before God for ever; may mercy and righteousness keep him safe.
Psalms 91:2
Who says of the Lord, He is my safe place and my tower of strength: he is my God, in whom is my hope.
Psalms 91:9
Because you have said, I am in the hands of the Lord, the Most High is my safe resting-place;
Psalms 91:10
No evil will come on you, and no disease will come near your tent.
Matthew 27:43
He put his faith in God; let God be his saviour now, if he will have him; for he said, I am the Son of God.
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Psalms 7:1
Shiggaion of David; a song which he made to the Lord, about the words of Cush the Benjamite. O Lord my God, I put my faith in you; take me out of the hands of him who is cruel to me, and make me free;
Psalms 11:1
For the chief music-maker. Of David. In the Lord put I my faith; how will you say to my soul, Go in flight like a bird to the mountain?
Psalms 32:10
The sinner will be full of trouble; but mercy will be round the man who has faith in the Lord.
Psalms 62:8
Have faith in him at all times, you people; let your hearts go flowing out before him: God is our safe place. (Selah.)
Psalms 84:11
The Lord God is our sun and our strength: the Lord will give grace and glory: he will not keep back any good thing from those whose ways are upright.
Psalms 84:12
O Lord of armies, happy is the man whose hope is in you.
Psalms 146:3
Put not your faith in rulers, or in the son of man, in whom there is no salvation.
Psalms 146:4
Man's breath goes out, he is turned back again to dust; in that day all his purposes come to an end.
Psalms 146:5
Happy is the man who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God:
Ecclesiastes 3:17
I said in my heart, God will be judge of the good and of the bad; because a time for every purpose and for every work has been fixed by him.
Isaiah 26:3
The man whose heart is unmoved you will keep in peace, because his hope is in you.
1 Peter 1:21
Who through him have faith in God who took him up again from the dead into glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God.
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Psalms 72:1
Of Solomon. Give the king your authority, O God, and your righteousness to the king's son.
Psalms 72:4
May he be a judge of the poor among the people, may he give salvation to the children of those who are in need; by him let the violent be crushed.
Psalms 99:4
The king's power is used for righteousness; you give true decisions, judging rightly in the land of Jacob.
Proverbs 16:12
Evil-doing is disgusting to kings: for the seat of the ruler is based on righteousness.
Proverbs 20:28
Mercy and good faith keep the king safe, and the seat of his power is based on upright acts.
Proverbs 29:14
The king who is a true judge in the cause of the poor, will be safe for ever on the seat of his power.
Isaiah 16:5
Then a king's seat will be based on mercy, and one will be seated on it in the tent of David for ever; judging uprightly, and quick to do righteousness.
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Psalms 119:10
I have made search for you with all my heart: O let me not go wandering far from your teaching.
Psalms 119:11
I have kept your sayings secretly in my heart, so that I might do no sin against you.
Proverbs 14:2
He who goes on his way in righteousness has before him the fear of the Lord; but he whose ways are twisted gives him no honour.
3 John 1:3
For it gave me great joy when some of the brothers came and gave witness that you had the true faith and were walking in the true way.
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Job 2:3
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? and he still keeps his righteousness, though you have been moving me to send destruction on him without cause.
Job 27:5
Let it be far from me! I will certainly not say that you are right! I will come to death before I give up my righteousness.
Job 27:6
I will keep it safe, and will not let it go: my heart has nothing to say against any part of my life.
Job 42:7
And it came about, after he had said these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, I am very angry with you and your two friends, because you have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has.
Psalms 1:2
But whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and whose mind is on his law day and night.
Psalms 121:3
May he not let your foot be moved: no need of sleep has he who keeps you.
Psalms 121:7
The Lord will keep you safe from all evil; he will take care of your soul.
Psalms 121:8
The Lord will keep watch over your going out and your coming in, from this time and for ever.
2 Corinthians 4:8
Troubles are round us on every side, but we are not shut in; things are hard for us, but we see a way out of them;
Ephesians 6:15
Be ready with the good news of peace as shoes on your feet;
1 Peter 1:5
Who, by the power of God are kept, through faith, for that salvation, which will be seen at the last day.
1 Peter 1:7
So that the true metal of your faith, being of much greater value than gold (which, though it comes to an end, is tested by fire), may come to light in praise and glory and honour, at the revelation of Jesus Christ:
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1 Chronicles 29:17
And I am conscious, my God, that you are the searcher of hearts, taking pleasure in righteousness. As for me, with an upright heart I have freely given all these things; and I have seen with joy your people who are here to make their offerings freely to you.
Job 31:14
What then will I do when God comes as my judge? and what answer may I give to his questions?
Psalms 44:21
Will not God make search for it? for he sees the secrets of the heart.
Psalms 139:2
You have knowledge when I am seated and when I get up, you see my thoughts from far away.
Psalms 139:24
See if there is any way of sorrow in me, and be my guide in the eternal way.
Jeremiah 11:20
But, O Lord of armies, judging in righteousness, testing the thoughts and the heart, let me see your punishment come on them: for I have put my cause before you.
Jeremiah 12:3
But you, O Lord, have knowledge of me; you see me, searching and testing how my heart is with you: let them be pulled out like sheep to be put to death, make them ready for the day of death.
1 Corinthians 4:3
But it is a small thing to me that I am judged by you or by man's judging; I am not even a judge of myself.
1 Corinthians 4:5
For this reason let there be no judging before the time, till the Lord comes, who will make clear the secret things of the dark, and the designs of the heart; and then will every man have his praise from God.
1 Corinthians 4:6
My brothers, it is because of you that I have taken Apollos and myself as examples of these things, so that in us you might see that it is not wise to go farther than what is in the holy Writings, so that no one of you may be lifted up against his brother.
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Psalms 139:21
Are not your haters hated by me, O Lord? are not those who are lifted up against you a cause of grief to me?
Psalms 139:22
My hate for them is complete; my thoughts of them are as if they were making war on me.
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Proverbs 16:11
True measures and scales are the Lord's: all the weights of the bag are his work.
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Ecclesiastes 4:9
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their work.
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Ecclesiastes 4:10
And if one has a fall, the other will give him a hand; but unhappy is the man who is by himself, because he has no helper.
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Ezekiel 18:15
Who has not taken the flesh with the blood for food, or given worship to the images of the children of Israel, and has not had connection with his neighbour's wife,
Ezekiel 18:16
Or done wrong to any, or taken anything from one in his debt, or taken goods by force, but has given food to him who was in need of it, and clothing to him who was without it;
Ezekiel 18:17
Who has kept his hand from evil-doing and has not taken interest or great profits, who has done my orders and been guided by my rules: he will certainly not be put to death for the evil-doing of his father; life will certainly be his.
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Micah 6:11
Is it possible for me to let wrong scales and the bag of false weights go without punishment?
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John 12:35
Jesus said to them, For a little time longer the light will be among you; while you have the light go on walking in it, so that the dark may not overtake you: one walking in the dark has no knowledge of where he is going.
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John 12:36
In so far as you have the light, put your faith in the light so that you may become sons of light. With these words Jesus went away and for a time was not seen again by them.
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1 Samuel 12:2
And now, see, the king is before you: and I am old and grey-headed, and my sons are with you: I have been living before your eyes from my early days till now.
1 Samuel 12:3
Here I am: give witness against me before the Lord and before the man on whom he has put the holy oil: whose ox or ass have I taken? to whom have I been untrue? who has been crushed down by me? from whose hand have I taken a price for the blinding of my eyes? I will give it all back to you.
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.
1 Samuel 12:5
Then he said, The Lord is witness against you, and the man on whom he has put the holy oil is witness this day that you have seen no wrong in me. And they said, He is witness.
Nehemiah 5:15
But earlier rulers who were before me made the people responsible for their upkeep, and took from them bread and wine at the rate of forty shekels of silver; and even their servants were lords over the people: but I did not do so, because of the fear of God.
Proverbs 11:6
The righteousness of the upright will be their salvation, but the false will themselves be taken in their evil designs.
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.
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Psalms 18:36
You have made my steps wide under me, so that my feet are kept from slipping.
Psalms 91:5
You will have no fear of the evil things of the night, or of the arrow in flight by day,
Hebrews 2:13
And again he says, I will put my faith in him. And again, See, I am here, and the children which God has given to me.
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Psalms 24:5
He will have blessing from the Lord, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
Isaiah 1:16
Be washed, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; let there be an end of sinning;
Isaiah 1:18
Come now, and let us have an argument together, says the Lord: how may your sins which are red like blood be white as snow? how may their dark purple seem like wool?
Isaiah 56:1
The Lord says, Let your way of life be upright, and let your behaviour be rightly ordered: for my salvation is near, and my righteousness will quickly be seen.
1 Corinthians 15:57
But praise be to God who gives us strength to overcome through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Hebrews 6:10
For God is true, and will not put away from him the memory of your work and of your love for his name, in the help which you gave and still give to the saints.
Hebrews 6:11
And it is our desire that you may all keep the same high purpose in certain hope to the end:
Hebrews 6:12
So that you may not be slow in heart, but may take as your example those to whom God has given their heritage, because of their faith and their long waiting.
1 John 1:7
But if we are walking in the light, as he is in the light, we are all united with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son makes us clean from all sin.
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Psalms 119:63
I keep company with all your worshippers, and those who have your orders in their memory.
James 1:12
There is a blessing on the man who undergoes testing; because, if he has God's approval, he will be given the crown of life, which the Lord has said he will give to those who have love for him.
1 Peter 4:19
For this reason let those who by the purpose of God undergo punishment, keep on in well-doing and put their souls into the safe hands of their Maker.
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