The curse of the LORD [is] in the house of the wicked: but he blesseth the habitation of the just.
But the path of the just [is] as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
Give [instruction] to a wise [man], and he will be yet wiser: teach a just [man], and he will increase in learning.
Blessings [are] upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
The memory of the just [is] blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.
The tongue of the just [is as] choice silver: the heart of the wicked [is] little worth.
The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out.
A false balance [is] abomination to the LORD: but a just weight [is] his delight.
An hypocrite with [his] mouth destroyeth his neighbour: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.
The wicked is snared by the transgression of [his] lips: but the just shall come out of trouble.
There shall no evil happen to the just: but the wicked shall be filled with mischief.
A good [man] leaveth an inheritance to his children's children: and the wealth of the sinner [is] laid up for the just.
A just weight and balance [are] the LORD's: all the weights of the bag [are] his work.
He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both [are] abomination to the LORD.
Also to punish the just [is] not good, [nor] to strike princes for equity.
[He that is] first in his own cause [seemeth] just; but his neighbour cometh and searcheth him.
The just [man] walketh in his integrity: his children [are] blessed after him.
[It is] joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction [shall be] to the workers of iniquity.
For a just [man] falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.
The bloodthirsty hate the upright: but the just seek his soul.
An unjust man [is] an abomination to the just: and [he that is] upright in the way [is] abomination to the wicked.
All [things] have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just [man] that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked [man] that prolongeth [his life] in his wickedness.
For [there is] not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just [men], unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked [men], to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also [is] vanity.
The way of the just [is] uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just.
That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.
Tell ye, and bring [them] near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? [who] hath told it from that time? [have] not I the LORD? and [there is] no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; [there is] none beside me.
For the sins of her prophets, [and] the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,
But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right,
Hath walked in my statutes, and hath kept my judgments, to deal truly; he [is] just, he shall surely live, saith the Lord GOD.
Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
Who [is] wise, and he shall understand these [things]? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD [are] right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.
For I know your manifold transgressions, and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate [from their right].
Behold, his soul [which] is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.
The just LORD [is] in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame.
Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he [is] just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.
Then Joseph her husband, being a just [man], and not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away privily.
That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just,
When he was set down on the judgment seat, his wife sent unto him, saying, Have thou nothing to do with that just man: for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him.
When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but [that] rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed [his] hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye [to it].
For Herod feared John, knowing that he was a just man and an holy, and observed him; and when he heard him, he did many things, and heard him gladly.
And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.
And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name [was] Simeon; and the same man [was] just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him.
And thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.
I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.
And they watched [him], and sent forth spies, which should feign themselves just men, that they might take hold of his words, that so they might deliver him unto the power and authority of the governor.
And, behold, [there was] a man named Joseph, a counsellor; [and he was] a good man, and a just:
I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.
But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you;
Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which showed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:
And they said, Cornelius the centurion, a just man, and one that feareth God, and of good report among all the nation of the Jews, was warned from God by an holy angel to send for thee into his house, and to hear words of thee.
And he said, The God of our fathers hath chosen thee, that thou shouldest know his will, and see that Just One, and shouldest hear the voice of his mouth.
And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.
For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
(For not the hearers of the law [are] just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
And not [rather], (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.
To declare, [I say], at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
Wherefore the law [is] holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, [it is] evident: for, The just shall live by faith.
Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things [are] honest, whatsoever things [are] just, whatsoever things [are] pure, whatsoever things [are] lovely, whatsoever things [are] of good report; if [there be] any virtue, and if [there be] any praise, think on these things.
Masters, give unto [your] servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.
But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;
For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward;
Now the just shall live by faith: but if [any man] draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
Ye have condemned [and] killed the just; [and] he doth not resist you.
For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us [our] sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous [are] thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true [are] thy ways, thou King of saints.
Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified?
Behold now, I have ordered [my] cause; I know that I shall be justified.
How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean [that is] born of a woman?
Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself rather than God.
Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done [this] evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, [and] be clear when thou judgest.
And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled: who among them can declare this, and show us former things? let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified: or let them hear, and say, [It is] truth.
Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified.
In the LORD shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory.
And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah.
Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou hast multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast justified thy sisters in all thine abominations which thou hast done.
Thou also, which hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own shame for thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable than they: they are more righteous than thou: yea, be thou confounded also, and bear thy shame, in that thou hast justified thy sisters.
The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.
For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
And all the people that heard [him], and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.
But wisdom is justified of all her children.
I tell you, this man went down to his house justified [rather] than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.
(For not the hearers of the law [are] just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law [is] the knowledge of sin.
Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath [whereof] to glory; but not before God.
Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
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