When a righteous man turns from his godliness and commits iniquity, he will die for it.

Now Abimelech had not gone near her. He said, “Lord, would you really slaughter an innocent nation?

You are righteous with regard to all that has happened to us, for you have acted faithfully. It is we who have been in the wrong!

I am a laughingstock to my friends, I, who called on God and whom he answered – a righteous and blameless man is a laughingstock!

So these three men refused to answer Job further, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

Certainly you reward the godly, Lord. Like a shield you protect them in your good favor.

May lying lips be silenced – lips that speak defiantly against the innocent with arrogance and contempt!

I was once young, now I am old. I have never seen a godly man abandoned, or his children forced to search for food.

The godly will rejoice when they see vengeance carried out; they will bathe their feet in the blood of the wicked.

The godly will rejoice in the Lord and take shelter in him. All the morally upright will boast.

The father of a righteous person will rejoice greatly; whoever fathers a wise child will have joy in him.

So do not be excessively righteous or excessively wise; otherwise you might be disappointed.

For there is not one truly righteous person on the earth who continually does good and never sins.

those who bear false testimony against a person, who entrap the one who arbitrates at the city gate and deprive the innocent of justice by making false charges.

Having suffered, he will reflect on his work, he will be satisfied when he understands what he has done. “My servant will acquit many, for he carried their sins.

When a righteous person turns back from his righteousness and practices wrongdoing, he will die for it; because of the wrongdoing he has done, he will die.

Then once more you will see that I make a distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between the one who serves God and the one who does not.

This is the account of Noah. Noah was a godly man; he was blameless among his contemporaries. He walked with God.

The Lord said to Noah, “Come into the ark, you and all your household, for I consider you godly among this generation.

As for the Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. He is a reliable God who is never unjust, he is fair and upright.