Whoever receives a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward. Whoever receives a righteous person in the name of a righteous person will receive a righteous person’s reward.

I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

just as it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one,

Instead he must be hospitable, devoted to what is good, sensible, upright, devout, and self-controlled.

(for while he lived among them day after day, that righteous man was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)

Little children, let no one deceive you: The one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as Jesus is righteous.

And these will depart into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

“And why don’t you judge for yourselves what is right?

Now there was a man named Joseph who was a member of the council, a good and righteous man.

Do not judge according to external appearance, but judge with proper judgment.”

So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord for this is right.

For it is right for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you,

You have condemned and murdered the righteous person, although he does not resist you.

And if the righteous are barely saved, what will become of the ungodly and sinners?

and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man in anguish over the debauched lifestyle of lawless men,

so that on you will come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

Because Joseph, her husband to be, was a righteous man, and because he did not want to disgrace her, he intended to divorce her privately.

He said to them, ‘You go into the vineyard too, and I will give you whatever is right.’

In the same way, on the outside you look righteous to people, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.