Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
According to thy name, O God, so [is] thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness.
And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God [is] judge himself. Selah.
Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: [and] my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.
Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.
Thou lovest evil more than good; [and] lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.
To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David. Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
[By] terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation; [who art] the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off [upon] the sea:
Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.
Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline thine ear unto me, and save me.
My mouth shall show forth thy righteousness [and] thy salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers [thereof].
I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD: I will make mention of thy righteousness, [even] of thine only.
Thy righteousness also, O God, [is] very high, who hast done great things: O God, who [is] like unto thee!
My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long: for they are confounded, for they are brought unto shame, that seek my hurt.
[A Psalm] for Solomon. Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king's son.
He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment.
The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, by righteousness.
Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed [each other].
Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven.
Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set [us] in the way of his steps.
Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
In thy name shall they rejoice all the day: and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted.
But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it.
Before the LORD: for he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth.
Clouds and darkness [are] round about him: righteousness and judgment [are] the habitation of his throne.
The heavens declare his righteousness, and all the people see his glory.
The LORD hath made known his salvation: his righteousness hath he openly showed in the sight of the heathen.
Before the LORD; for he cometh to judge the earth: with righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity.
The king's strength also loveth judgment; thou dost establish equity, thou executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob.
The LORD executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.
But the mercy of the LORD [is] from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's children;
Blessed [are] they that keep judgment, [and] he that doeth righteousness at all times.
And that was counted unto him for righteousness unto all generations for evermore.
His work [is] honourable and glorious: and his righteousness endureth for ever.
Wealth and riches [shall be] in his house: and his righteousness endureth for ever.
He hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor; his righteousness endureth for ever; his horn shall be exalted with honour.
Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, [and] I will praise the LORD:
Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.
Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of thy righteousness.
Thy righteousness [is] an everlasting righteousness, and thy law [is] the truth.
The righteousness of thy testimonies [is] everlasting: give me understanding, and I shall live.
My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments [are] righteousness.
Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness; and let thy saints shout for joy.
A Psalm of David. Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, [and] in thy righteousness.
They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness, and shall sing of thy righteousness.
Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; [yea], every good path.
All the words of my mouth [are] in righteousness; [there is] nothing froward or perverse in them.
Riches and honour [are] with me; [yea], durable riches and righteousness.
I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment:
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.
Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.
The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in [their own] naughtiness.
The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth righteousness [shall be] a sure reward.
As righteousness [tendeth] to life: so he that pursueth evil [pursueth it] to his own death.
[He that] speaketh truth showeth forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit.
In the way of righteousness [is] life; and [in] the pathway [thereof there is] no death.
Righteousness keepeth [him that is] upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.
Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin [is] a reproach to any people.
The way of the wicked [is] an abomination unto the LORD: but he loveth him that followeth after righteousness.
Better [is] a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.
[It is] an abomination to kings to commit wickedness: for the throne is established by righteousness.
The hoary head [is] a crown of glory, [if] it be found in the way of righteousness.
He that followeth after righteousness and mercy findeth life, righteousness, and honour.
Take away the wicked [from] before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.
And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, [that] wickedness [was] there; and the place of righteousness, [that] iniquity [was] there.
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.
How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.
Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness.
For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts [is] the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.
Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, [yet] a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness.
But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
And in mercy shall the throne be established: and he shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness.
With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments [are] in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
Let favour be showed to the wicked, [yet] will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.
Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment.
Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field.
And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.
The LORD is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath filled Zion with judgment and righteousness.
Fear thou not; for I [am] with thee: be not dismayed; for I [am] thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;
Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the LORD have created it.
I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, saith the LORD of hosts.
I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.
I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth [in] righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.
Surely, shall [one] say, in the LORD have I righteousness and strength: [even] to him shall [men] come; and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed.
Hearken unto me, ye stouthearted, that [are] far from righteousness:
I bring near my righteousness: it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not tarry: and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.
Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah, which swear by the name of the LORD, and make mention of the God of Israel, [but] not in truth, nor in righteousness.
O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:
Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look unto the rock [whence] ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit [whence] ye are digged.
My righteousness [is] near; my salvation is gone forth, and mine arms shall judge the people; the isles shall wait upon me, and on mine arm shall they trust.
Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart [is] my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings.
For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.
In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far from oppression; for thou shalt not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near thee.
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The First Book of Adam and Eve. Books 1 begins immediately after the expulsion from the Garden of Eden. We learn about the fall but also of the promise to save Adam and his decendents. The story depicts mans struggle against evil, the devil and sin.
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