Psalms 26:11

though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver only their own souls by their righteousness,” says the Lord Yahweh.

He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “they would deliver neither son nor daughter; they would deliver only their own souls by their righteousness.”

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

Don’t be wise in your own eyes. Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

Yahweh said to Noah, “Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless.

Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.

I will ransom them from the power of Sheol. I will redeem them from death! Death, where are your plagues? Sheol, where is your destruction? “Compassion will be hidden from my eyes.

even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

and that our Good News came to you not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and with much assurance. You know what kind of men we showed ourselves to be among you for your sake.

This is the history of the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.

For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant, Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil.”

For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption.

Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.

For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.

His offspring will be mighty in the land. The generation of the upright will be blessed.

Better is the poor who walks in his integrity, than he who is perverse in his ways, and he is rich.

Behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. This man was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him.

“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days,” says the Lord; “I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

Solomon said, “You have shown to your servant David my father great loving kindness, because he walked before you in truth, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with you. You have kept for him this great loving kindness, that you have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is today.

When Solomon was old, his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with Yahweh his God, as the heart of David his father was.

Solomon did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and didn’t go fully after Yahweh, as David his father did.

because David did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, and didn’t turn away from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, except only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

“Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

We, the priests, the Levites, and the people, cast lots for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, according to our fathers’ houses, at times appointed, year by year, to burn on Yahweh our God’s altar, as it is written in the law;

The priests and the Levites purified themselves; and they purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.

Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause.”

Isn’t your piety your confidence? Isn’t the integrity of your ways your hope?

Trust in Yahweh, and do good. Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture.

All day long he deals graciously, and lends. His offspring is blessed.

As for me, you uphold me in my integrity, and set me in your presence forever.

For you have delivered my soul from death, and prevented my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living.

Because your loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise you.

You will guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.

So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.

You will arise and have mercy on Zion; for it is time to have pity on her. Yes, the set time has come.

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law.

He will redeem Israel from all their sins.

He who walks blamelessly walks surely, but he who perverts his ways will be found out.

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.

and all the mixed people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, all the kings of the Philistines, Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod;

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,

This saying is faithful, and concerning these things I desire that you affirm confidently, so that those who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men;

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit,

He said, “Don’t lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”

Joseph said to them the third day, “Do this, and live, for I fear God.

If you will walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days.”

It shall be, if you will listen to all that I command you, and will walk in my ways, and do that which is right in my eyes, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did; that I will be with you, and will build you a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel to you.

Also I said, “The thing that you do is not good. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?

Remember me, my God, for good, all that I have done for this people.

Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh.

Yahweh is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices. With my song I will thank him.

Draw near to my soul and redeem it. Ransom me because of my enemies.

But deal with me, Yahweh the Lord, for your name’s sake, because your loving kindness is good, deliver me;

The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.

Rejoice and be glad, daughter of Edom, that dwells in the land of Uz. The cup will pass through to you also. You will be drunken, and will make yourself naked.

As for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances;

Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for you.

Judge me, Yahweh, for I have walked in my integrity. I have trusted also in Yahweh without wavering.

But the former governors who were before me were supported by the people, and took bread and wine from them, plus forty shekels of silver; yes, even their servants ruled over the people; but I didn’t do so, because of the fear of God.

Remember me, my God, concerning this, and don’t wipe out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for its observances.

I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the Sabbath day. Remember to me, my God, this also, and spare me according to the greatness of your loving kindness.

and for the wood offering, at times appointed, and for the first fruits. Remember me, my God, for good.

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

Yahweh administers judgment to the peoples. Judge me, Yahweh, according to my righteousness, and to my integrity that is in me.

Rise up to help us. Redeem us for your loving kindness’ sake.

none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give God a ransom for him.

But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me.

Answer me, Yahweh, for your loving kindness is good. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, turn to me.

Better is the poor who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his lips and is a fool.

A righteous man walks in integrity. Blessed are his children after him.

Whoever walks blamelessly is kept safe; but one with perverse ways will fall suddenly.

and said, “Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” Then Hezekiah wept bitterly.

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

You are witnesses with God how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe.

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.

After Methuselah’s birth, Enoch walked with God for three hundred years, and became the father of more sons and daughters.