100 Bible Verses About Living Righteously

All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them.

The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence;

Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.

They shall call the people unto the mountain; there they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness: for they shall suck of the abundance of the seas, and of treasures hid in the sand.

Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again.

Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the Lord, mercy shall compass him about.

Thou shalt not steal.

Shall they escape by iniquity? in thine anger cast down the people, O God.

Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:

I opened my mouth, and panted: for I longed for thy commandments.

He hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor; his righteousness endureth for ever; his horn shall be exalted with honour.

Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the Lord of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.

Arise, O Lord; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight.

Hear the right, O Lord, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.

And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city, for the which thou hast spoken.

Who said unto his father and to his mother, I have not seen him; neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own children: for they have observed thy word, and kept thy covenant.

And if a stranger sojourn with you, or whosoever be among you in your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the Lord; as ye do, so he shall do.

What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?

For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods.

Thou shalt not eat it; that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the Lord.

To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.

Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the Lord, the rebuke of thy God.

And Moses told the children of Israel according to all that the Lord commanded Moses.

I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.

Therefore the Lord will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day.

For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse;

And he cried against the altar in the word of the Lord, and said, O altar, altar, thus saith the Lord; Behold, a child shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he offer the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men’s bones shall be burnt upon thee.

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.

The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.

O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!

And David’s anger was greatly kindled against the man; and he said to Nathan, As the Lord liveth, the man that hath done this thing shall surely die:

Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil.

Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword.

For the indignation of the Lord is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter.

Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned.

Ye shall observe to do therefore as the Lord your God hath commanded you: ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.

And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.

All the males among the children of Aaron shall eat of it. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations concerning the offerings of the Lord made by fire: every one that toucheth them shall be holy.

He gave them hail for rain, and flaming fire in their land.

Then the angel of the Lord went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.

All fowls that creep, going upon all four, shall be an abomination unto you.

His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.

The Lord shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;

Now therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by the Lord, since I have shewed you kindness, that ye will also shew kindness unto my father’s house, and give me a true token:

I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.

He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.

For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the Lord; and the Lord hath sent us to destroy it.

And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door.

Let us choose to us judgment: let us know among ourselves what is good.

Who smote great nations, and slew mighty kings;

They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.

And he called the name of the place Taberah: because the fire of the Lord burnt among them.

For such as be blessed of him shall inherit the earth; and they that be cursed of him shall be cut off.

And thou shalt take the ram of the consecration, and seethe his flesh in the holy place.

He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination.

If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from among you.

They shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy unto his God.

For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest in the throne judging right.

For the Lord will judge his people, and he will repent himself concerning his servants.

That thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?

Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments.

For there were many in the congregation that were not sanctified: therefore the Levites had the charge of the killing of the passovers for every one that was not clean, to sanctify them unto the Lord.

But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off.

The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.

My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord: and let all flesh bless his holy name for ever and ever.

Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.

Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.

That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

And when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable, and said, Amalek was the first of the nations; but his latter end shall be that he perish for ever.

And Moses gathered all the congregation of the children of Israel together, and said unto them, These are the words which the Lord hath commanded, that ye should do them.

Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man’s heart discerneth both time and judgment.

And when he came to Samaria, he slew all that remained unto Ahab in Samaria, till he had destroyed him, according to the saying of the Lord, which he spake to Elijah.

Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?

Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?

And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.

For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:

The Lord shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone.

The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the Lord of hosts.

This I had, because I kept thy precepts.

The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide.

Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day long.

Turn away my reproach which I fear: for thy judgments are good.

The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.

Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand.

And there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there was none like it, nor shall be like it any more.

Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish:

The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.

The Lord render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness: for the Lord delivered thee into my hand to day, but I would not stretch forth mine hand against the Lord’s anointed.

And therefore will the Lord wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the Lord is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.

So now the Lord God of Israel hath dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and shouldest thou possess it?

Ye have been rebellious against the Lord from the day that I knew you.

And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.

The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.

And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.

Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the Lord.

And the Lord said unto me, They have well spoken that which they have spoken.