This is the book of the generations of heaven and earth, when they were made, in the day in which the Lord God made the heaven and the earth,

This is the genealogy of men in the day in which God made Adam; in the image of God He made him:

Now these [are] the generations of the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and sons were born to them after the flood.

And the Lord God said to Noah, Enter therefore, you and all your family, into the ark, for I have seen [that] you [are] righteous before Me in this generation.

For a righteous and blameless man has become a subject for mockery.

But the ways of the righteous shine like light; they go forth and shine, until the day has fully come.

For there is not a righteous man in the earth who will do good, and not sin.

And though these three men should be in the midst of it, Noah, Daniel, and Job, they [alone] would be delivered by their righteousness, says the Lord.

and should Noah, Daniel, and Job be in the midst of it, [as] I live, says the Lord, there shall be left [them] neither sons nor daughters; [only] they by their righteousness shall deliver their souls.

If he should draw back, My soul has no pleasure in him: but the just shall live by My faith.

And behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon, and this man was just and devout, waiting for the Consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him.

And behold, there was a man named Joseph, a council member, a good and just man

And they said, "Cornelius the centurion, a just man, and fearing God, having a good reputation among all the nation of the Jews, was given a revelation by a holy angel to send for you to his house, and to hear words from you."

For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, "The just shall live by faith."

But that no one is justified by the law before God is evident, for "The just shall live by faith."

By faith Noah, having being warned [By God] concerning the things not yet seen, being reverent, prepared an ark for the salvation of his household, through which he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

and did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, [the] eighth, a preacher of righteousness, when He brought a flood upon the ungodly world;

But they removed not the high places; they still existed in Israel. Nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.

And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, but not with a perfect heart.

There was a certain man in the land of Uz, whose name [was] Job; and that man was true, blameless, righteous, and godly, abstaining from everything evil.

And the Lord said to him, Have you diligently considered My servant Job, that there is none like him on [all] the earth, a blameless man, true, godly, abstaining from everything evil?

Maintain innocence, and behold uprightness; for there is a remnant to the peaceable man.

And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.

and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through [the] faith of Christ, the righteousness [which is] from God by faith;

if in some way I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.

Brothers, I do not count myself to have laid hold; but one thing [I do], forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forward to those things which are ahead,

Therefore, as many as are mature, let us think this way; and if in anything you think otherwise, even this God will reveal to you.

And Enoch was well-pleasing to God. After his begetting [of] Methuselah, [He walked with God] two hundred years, and he begot sons and daughters.

And Enoch was well-pleasing to God, and was not found, because God translated him.

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, I am your God, be well-pleasing before Me, and be blameless.

And he blessed them and said, The God in whose sight my fathers were well pleasing, [even] Abraham and Isaac, the God who continues to feed me from my youth until this day;

And Solomon said, You have dealt very mercifully with Your servant David my father according as he walked before You in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with You, and You have kept for him this great mercy, to set his son upon his throne, as [it is] this day.

And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.

you also, as living stones, are being built [into] a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.