These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that Jehovah God was making the earth and the heavens,

This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, He made him in the likeness of God.

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

And Jehovah said to Noah, Come into the ark, you and all your house, for I have seen you as being righteous before Me in this generation.

I am one as a laughingstock to his friends; one who called upon God, and He answered him; the just and whole one is a laughingstock.

But the path of the just is as the brightness of dawn, that keeps getting brighter until it is fully daytime.

For there is not a just man on earth who does good and does not sin.

And although these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver only themselves by their righteousness, declares the Lord Jehovah.

although Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live, declares the Lord Jehovah, they would deliver neither son nor daughter; they would deliver only themselves by their righteousness.

Behold, the soul of him who is puffed up is not upright; but the just shall live by his 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, one who fears God and has a good reputation among all the nation of the Jews, was divinely instructed by a holy angel to summon you to his house, and to hear words from you.

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

But that no one is justified by the Law in the sight of God is evident; for, The just shall live by faith.

By faith Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household, by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing the flood on the world of the ungodly;

But the high places were not removed from Israel. Nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.

And he did what was right in the eyes of Jehovah, but not with a perfect heart.

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and the man was perfect and upright, and one who feared God and turned away from evil.

Then Jehovah said to Satan, Have you set your heart on My servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a perfect and upright man, one who fears God and turns away from evil?

Observe the perfect and consider the upright one; for the latter time of that man is peace.

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 from the Law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;

if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.

Brethren, I do not count myself to have laid hold; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and stretching forward to those things which are ahead,

Therefore let us, as many as are complete, be of this mind; and if in anything you think differently, God will reveal even this to you.

After he begot Methuselah, Enoch walked with God three hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.

And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God carried him away.

And when Abram was ninety-nine years old, Jehovah appeared to Abram and said to him, I am the Almighty God! Walk before Me and be perfect;

And he blessed Joseph, and said: God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has fed me since I was born to this day,

And Solomon said: You have shown great mercy to Your servant David my father, because he walked before You in truth, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with You; You have continued this great kindness for him, and You have given him a son sitting on 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 up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.