The mouth of the righteous speaks wisdom, and his tongue talks of justice.

And they shall teach My people the difference between the holy and the profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.

And in a dispute they shall stand as judges, and judge it according to My judgments. They shall keep My Laws and My statutes in all My appointed times, and they shall consecrate My Sabbaths.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest to Me. Since you have forgotten the Law of your God, I also will forget your sons.

And they sent to Him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Teacher, we know that You are true, and teach the way of God in truth; nor do You care about anyone, for You do not regard the person of men.

And when they had come, they said to Him, Teacher, we know that You are true, and care about no one; for You do not regard the person of men, but teach the way of God in truth. Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not?

Then they asked Him, saying, Teacher, we know that You say and teach rightly, and You do not show personal regard, but teach the way of God in truth:

Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of Truth.

But shun profane and idle babblings, for they will proceed to more ungodliness.

For an overseer must be blameless, as a steward of God, not self-willed, not prone to anger, not given to wine, not quarrelsome, not greedy for money,

holding fast the faithful Word according to the teaching, that he may be able, by sound doctrine, both to exhort and convict those who contradict.

And in their mouth was found no deceit, for they are without blemish before the throne of God.

Enoch lived sixty-five years, and begot Methuselah.

So all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years.

These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a just man, perfect in his generation. Noah walked with God.

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

But if they had stood in My counsel and had caused My people to hear My Words, then they would have turned them from their evil way and from the evil of their doings.

And the prudent shall shine as the brightness of the firmament, and those who turn many to righteousness, as the stars forever and ever.

And he will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord their God.

He will also go before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.

to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light, and from the authority of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in Me.

For they themselves declare concerning us what manner of entry we had to you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God,

and to wait for His Son from Heaven, whom He raised from the dead, even Jesus who delivers us from the coming wrath.

Brethren, if anyone among you goes astray from the truth, and someone turns him back,

let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and conceal a multitude of sins.