And He said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. Because that which is exalted among men is an abomination before God.

[ 6:10] And these are the generations of Noah. Noah was a just man; being perfect in his generation; Noah was well pleasing to God.

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.

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.

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?

Truly I know it is so, for how shall a mortal man be righteous before the Lord?

What then? Are we [any] better? Not at all. For we previously charged both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin.

There is none who understands; there is none who seeks God.

"Their throat is an opened grave; with their tongues they deceived"; " [the] poison of asps is under their lips";

Their feet are swift to shed blood;

And the way of peace they did not know.

Now we know that as many things as the law says, it speaks to those under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

But now the righteousness of God apart from the law has been revealed, being witnessed to by the Law and the Prophets,

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

whom God set forth as a propitiation through faith in His blood, for a demonstration of His righteousness through the passing over of the sins having previously occurred, in the forbearance of God,

with respect to zeal, persecuting the church; with respect to righteousness which is in the law, blameless.

More than that I also consider all things to be loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have sustained the loss of all things, and I consider them to be rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ

For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, being deceived, being enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

not by works of righteousness which we did, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,

that having been justified by His grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

And if you will walk before Me as David your father walked, in holiness of heart and uprightness, and so as to do according to all that I commanded him, and shall keep My ordinances and My commandments,

O Lord, remember, I pray, how I have walked before You in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in Your eyes. And Hezekiah wept with a great weeping.

Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect to all Your commandments.

Then Paul, looking intently at the council, said, "Men, brothers, I have lived with all good conscience toward God until this day."

And in this I myself am engaging, having a conscience blameless toward God and men through everything.

Now I praise you, brothers, because you remember me in all things, and you hold fast the traditions just as I handed down to you.

For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that we have conducted ourselves in the world in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God, and especially toward you.

with respect to zeal, persecuting the church; with respect to righteousness which is in the law, blameless.

For the saving grace of God has appeared to all men,

looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,

Now by this we know that we have come to know Him, if we keep His commandments.

If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of Him.

Little children, let no one deceive you. The [one] who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous.

in order that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverted generation, among whom you shine as light bearers in the world,

in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, and blameless, and above reproach before Him--

so that He may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His saints.

Therefore, beloved, looking forward to these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, without spot or blemish;