Psalms 16:8
16:8 I constantly trust in the Lord;
because he is at my right hand, I will not be upended.
Psalms 55:22
55:22 Throw your burden upon the Lord,
and he will sustain you.
He will never allow the godly to be upended.
Psalms 106:3
106:3 How blessed are those who promote justice,
and do what is right all the time!
Psalms 112:6
112:6 For he will never be upended;
others will always remember one who is just.
Proverbs 12:3
12:3 No one can be established through wickedness,
but a righteous root cannot be moved.
Ezekiel 18:27
18:27 When a wicked person turns from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he will preserve his life.
Matthew 7:21-25
Judgment of Pretenders
7:21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the kingdom of heaven – only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven.
7:22 On that day, many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in your name, and in your name cast out demons and do many powerful deeds?’
7:23 Then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you. Go away from me, you lawbreakers!’
Hearing and Doing
7:24 “Everyone who hears these words of mine and does them is like a wise man who built his house on rock.
7:25 The rain fell, the flood came, and the winds beat against that house, but it did not collapse because it had been founded on rock.
John 13:17
13:17 If you understand
these things, you will be blessed if you do them.
James 1:22-25
1:22 But be sure you live out the message and do not merely listen to it and so deceive yourselves.
1:23 For if someone merely listens to the message and does not live it out, he is like someone
who gazes at his own face
in a mirror.
1:24 For he gazes at himself and then goes out and immediately forgets
what sort of person he was.
1:25 But the one who peers into the perfect law of liberty and fixes his attention there,
and does not become a forgetful listener but one who lives it out – he
will be blessed in what he does.
James 1:2
Joy in Trials
1:2 My brothers and sisters, consider it nothing but joy when you fall into all sorts of trials,
James 1:10-11
1:10 But the rich person’s pride should be in his humiliation, because he will pass away like a wildflower in the meadow.
1:11 For the sun rises with its heat and dries up the meadow; the petal of the flower falls off and its beauty is lost forever.
So also the rich person in the midst of his pursuits will wither away.