Then Achish called David, and said to him, "As the LORD lives, you have been upright, and your going out and your coming in with me in the army is good in my sight; for I have not found evil in you since the day of your coming to me to this day. Nevertheless, the lords don't favor you.
But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt offerings: therefore their brothers the Levites helped them, until the work was ended, and until the priests had sanctified themselves; for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.
said with a loud voice, "Stand upright on your feet!" He leaped up and walked.
He said to me, Daniel, you man greatly beloved, understand the words that I speak to you, and stand upright; for am I now sent to you. When he had spoken this word to me, I stood trembling.
Now as he was speaking with me, I fell into a deep sleep with my face toward the ground; but he touched me, and set me upright.
Behold, this only have I found: that God made man upright; but they search for many schemes."
"'Even those who serve them are ashamed, for if they fall to the ground at any time, they cannot rise up again of themselves; neither, if one sets them upright, can they move of themselves; neither, if they are bowed down, can they make themselves straight; yet they set gifts before them as before dead men.
With the blast of your nostrils, the waters were piled up. The floods stood upright as a heap. The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea.
for behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and behold, your sheaves came around, and bowed down to my sheaf."
Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.
The way of the just is uprightness. You who are upright make the path of the righteous level.
There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.
Upright men shall be astonished at this. The innocent shall stir up himself against the godless.
the LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant, Job? For there is none like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil."
the LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? For there is none like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause."
There the upright might reason with him, so I should be delivered forever from my judge.
"Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?
If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.
I am the LORD your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves; and I have broken the bars of your yoke, and made you go upright.
The godly man has perished out of the earth, and there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net.
The best of them is like a brier. The most upright is worse than a thorn hedge. The day of your watchmen, even your visitation, has come; now is the time of their confusion.
The way of the LORD is a stronghold to the upright, but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.
By the blessing of the upright, the city is exalted, but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.
The integrity of the upright shall guide them, but the perverseness of the treacherous shall destroy them.
The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them, but the unfaithful will be trapped by evil desires.
The words of the wicked are about lying in wait for blood, but the speech of the upright rescues them.
The house of the wicked will be overthrown, but the tent of the upright will flourish.
Fools mock at making atonement for sins, but among the upright there is good will.
The way of the sluggard is like a thorn patch, but the path of the upright is a highway.
The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
The highway of the upright is to depart from evil. He who keeps his way preserves his soul.
The wicked is a ransom for the righteous; the treacherous for the upright.
A wicked man hardens his face; but as for the upright, he establishes his ways.
The way of the guilty is devious, but the conduct of the innocent is upright.
For the upright will dwell in the land. The perfect will remain in it.
He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity;
Whoever causes the upright to go astray in an evil way, he will fall into his own trap; but the blameless will inherit good.
The bloodthirsty hate a man of integrity; and they seek the life of the upright.
A dishonest man detests the righteous, and the upright in their ways detest the wicked.
For the perverse is an abomination to the LORD, but his friendship is with the upright.
The upright will see it, and be glad. All the wicked will shut their mouths.
Praise Yah! I will give thanks to the LORD with my whole heart, in the council of the upright, and in the congregation.
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