The LORD is our protector and glorious king, blessing us with kindness and honor. He does not refuse any good thing to those who do what is right.

He provides help and protection for those who are righteous and honest.

He protects those who treat others fairly, and guards those who are devoted to him.

Be honest and you will be safe. If you are dishonest, you will suddenly fall.

You can survive if you say and do what is right. Don't use your power to cheat the poor and don't accept bribes. Don't join with those who plan to commit murder or to do other evil things.

Do you think the people of Israel are under a curse? Has the LORD lost his patience? Would he really do such things? Doesn't he speak kindly to those who do right?"

They both lived good lives in God's sight and obeyed fully all the Lord's laws and commands.

When I saw that they were not walking a straight path in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter in front of them all, "You are a Jew, yet you have been living like a Gentile, not like a Jew. How, then, can you try to force Gentiles to live like Jews?"

if we say that we remain in union with God, we should live just as Jesus Christ did.

Those who fear him and do what is right are acceptable to him, no matter what race they belong to.

But God will give glory, honor, and peace to all who do what is good, to the Jews first and also to the Gentiles.

God has made us what we are, and in our union with Christ Jesus he has created us for a life of good deeds, which he has already prepared for us to do.

Through faith they fought whole countries and won. They did what was right and received what God had promised. They shut the mouths of lions,

You know that Christ is righteous; you should know, then, that everyone who does what is right is God's child.

Let no one deceive you, my children! Whoever does what is right is righteous, just as Christ is righteous.

Happy are those who wash their robes clean and so have the right to eat the fruit from the tree of life and to go through the gates into the city.

But outside the city are the perverts and those who practice magic, the immoral and the murderers, those who worship idols and those who are liars both in words and deeds.

Would you like to enjoy life? Do you want long life and happiness?

Then keep from speaking evil and from telling lies.

The LORD said, "They are my people; they will not deceive me." And so he saved them

These are the things you should do: Speak the truth to one another. In the courts give real justice---the kind that brings peace.

Do not plan ways of harming one another. Do not give false testimony under oath. I hate lying, injustice, and violence."

No more lying, then! Each of you must tell the truth to the other believer, because we are all members together in the body of Christ.

Do not lie to one another, for you have put off the old self with its habits

But cowards, traitors, perverts, murderers, the immoral, those who practice magic, those who worship idols, and all liars---the place for them is the lake burning with fire and sulfur, which is the second death."