Those who are good travel a road that avoids evil; so watch where you are going---it may save your life.

Better to be poor and honest than rich and dishonest.

Solomon answered, "You always showed great love for my father David, your servant, and he was good, loyal, and honest in his relation with you. And you have continued to show him your great and constant love by giving him a son who today rules in his place.

There was a man named Job, living in the land of Uz, who worshiped God and was faithful to him. He was a good man, careful not to do anything evil.

God said to us humans, "To be wise, you must have reverence for the Lord. To understand, you must turn from evil."

May my goodness and honesty preserve me, because I trust in you.

Praise the LORD! Happy is the person who honors the LORD, who takes pleasure in obeying his commands.

After all this, there is only one thing to say: Have reverence for God, and obey his commands, because this is all that we were created for.

"In my covenant I promised them life and well-being, and this is what I gave them, so that they might respect me. In those days they did respect and fear me.

They taught what was right, not what was wrong. They lived in harmony with me; they not only did what was right themselves, but they also helped many others to stop doing evil.

And so it was that the church throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had a time of peace. Through the help of the Holy Spirit it was strengthened and grew in numbers, as it lived in reverence for the Lord.

"Captain Cornelius sent us," they answered. "He is a good man who worships God and is highly respected by all the Jewish people. An angel of God told him to invite you to his house, so that he could hear what you have to say."

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

It is foolish to speak scornfully of others. If you are smart, you will keep quiet.

Even my friends laugh at me now; they laugh, although I am righteous and blameless; but there was a time when God answered my prayers.

Be merciful to us, LORD, be merciful; we have been treated with so much contempt.

We have been mocked too long by the rich and scorned by proud oppressors.

Jesus said to his disciples, "Whoever listens to you listens to me; whoever rejects you rejects me; and whoever rejects me rejects the one who sent me."

When the Pharisees heard all this, they made fun of Jesus, because they loved money.

Or perhaps you despise his great kindness, tolerance, and patience. Surely you know that God is kind, because he is trying to lead you to repent.

But you have a hard and stubborn heart, and so you are making your own punishment even greater on the Day when God's anger and righteous judgments will be revealed.

People will be selfish, greedy, boastful, and conceited; they will be insulting, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, and irreligious;

they will be unkind, merciless, slanderers, violent, and fierce; they will hate the good;