“ Suppose a man is righteous. He practices what is just and right,

“人若是公义，且行正直与合理的事：

“人若是公义，行公平公义的事：

“人若是公义，行公平公义的事：

“倘若有义人秉公行义，

“人若是公义，又行公道和正直的事：

「人若是公義，且行正直與合理的事：

「人若是公義，行公平公義的事：

「人若是公義，行公平公義的事：

「倘若有義人秉公行義，

“人若是公義，又行公道和正直的事：

『人若是公義，行公平正義的事，

人若為義、循法合理、

如人為義行善。

人若虔誠、為義行善、

“ Suppose there is a righteous man who does what is just and right.

“ Suppose there is a godly man who does what is fair and right.

“ If a man is righteous and does what is just and right—

“ Suppose a certain man is righteous and does what is just and right.

“ Suppose a man is righteous and does what is just and right:

“ But if a man is righteous and practices justice and righteousness,

But if a man is just And does what is lawful and right;

But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right,

“ Now suppose a man is righteous and does what is just and right:

But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right,

“ But if a man is just, and does that which is lawful and right,

The one whose deeds are blameless and whose motives are pure, who does not lie, or make promises with no intention of keeping them.Such godly people are rewarded by the LORD, and vindicated by the God who delivers them.Such purity characterizes the people who seek his favor, Jacob’s descendants, who pray to him.( Selah)

eternal life to those who by perseverance in good works seek glory and honor and immortality,but wrath and anger to those who live in selfish ambition and do not obey the truth but follow unrighteousness.There will be affliction and distress on everyone who does evil, on the Jew first and also the Greek,but glory and honor and peace for everyone who does good, for the Jew first and also the Greek.

But be sure you live out the message and do not merely listen to it and so deceive yourselves.For if someone merely listens to the message and does not live it out, he is like someone who gazes at his own face in a mirror.For he gazes at himself and then goes out and immediately forgets what sort of person he was.But the one who peers into the perfect law of liberty and fixes his attention there, and does not become a forgetful listener but one who lives it out– he will be blessed in what he does.

“ Not everyone who says to me,‘ Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the kingdom of heaven– only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven.On that day, many will say to me,‘ Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in your name, and in your name cast out demons and do many powerful deeds?’Then I will declare to them,‘ I never knew you. Go away from me, you lawbreakers!’“ Everyone who hears these words of mine and does them is like a wise man who built his house on rock.The rain fell, the flood came, and the winds beat against that house, but it did not collapse because it had been founded on rock.Everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.The rain fell, the flood came, and the winds beat against that house, and it collapsed; it was utterly destroyed!”

If you know that he is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been fathered by him.

Does it make you any more of a king that you outstrip everyone else in building with cedar? Just think about your father. He was content that he had food and drink. He did what was just and right. So things went well with him.

Now by this we know that we have come to know God: if we keep his commandments.

Little children, let no one deceive you: The one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as Jesus is righteous.

I have chosen him so that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just. Then the LORD will give to Abraham what he promised him.”

Blessed are those who wash their robes so they can have access to the tree of life and can enter into the city by the gates.

Whoever lives a blameless life, does what is right, and speaks honestly.He does not slander, or do harm to others, or insult his neighbor.He despises a reprobate, but honors the LORD’s loyal followers. He makes firm commitments and does not renege on his promise.He does not charge interest when he lends his money. He does not take bribes to testify against the innocent. The one who lives like this will never be upended.

To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.

Suppose I say to the wicked,‘ You must certainly die,’ but he turns from his sin and does what is just and right.

By this we know that we love the children of God: whenever we love God and obey his commandments.For this is the love of God: that we keep his commandments. And his commandments do not weigh us down,because everyone who has been fathered by God conquers the world. This is the conquering power that has conquered the world: our faith.Now who is the person who has conquered the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Can this kind of faith save him?If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacks daily food,and one of you says to them,“ Go in peace, keep warm and eat well,” but you do not give them what the body needs, what good is it?So also faith, if it does not have works, is dead being by itself.But someone will say,“ You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith without works and I will show you faith by my works.You believe that God is one; well and good. Even the demons believe that– and tremble with fear.But would you like evidence, you empty fellow, that faith without works is useless?Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar?You see that his faith was working together with his works and his faith was perfected by works.And the scripture was fulfilled that says,“ Now Abraham believed God and it was counted to him for righteousness,” and he was called God’s friend.You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.And similarly, was not Rahab the prostitute also justified by works when she welcomed the messengers and sent them out by another way?For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.