Straightness

It is not because of your righteousness or uprightness of heart that you are going in to possess their land, but it is because of their wickedness that the LORD your God is driving out these nations before you, to keep the promise He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

And as for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, with a heart of integrity and uprightness, doing all I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and ordinances,

I know, my God, that You test the heart and delight in uprightness. All these things I have given willingly and with an upright heart, and now I have seen Your people who are present here giving joyfully and willingly to You.

How painful are honest words! But what does your argument prove?

My words are from an upright heart, and my lips speak sincerely what I know.

Yet if there is a messenger on his side, one mediator in a thousand, to tell a man what is right for him,

May integrity and uprightness preserve me, because I wait for You.

I will praise You with an upright heart when I learn Your righteous judgments.

from those who leave the straight paths to walk in the ways of darkness,

I will guide you in the way of wisdom; I will lead you on straight paths.

One gives freely, yet gains even more; another withholds what is right, only to become poor.

He who walks in uprightness fears the LORD, but the one who is devious in his ways despises Him.

It is surely not good to punish the innocent or to flog a noble for his honesty.

The Teacher searched to find delightful sayings and to record accurate words of truth.

This is he who was spoken of through the prophet Isaiah: “A voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for Him.’”

“A voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for Him.’”

as it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet: “A voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for Him.

Every valley shall be filled in, and every mountain and hill made low. The crooked ways shall be made straight, and the rough ways smooth.

You have no part or share in our ministry, because your heart is not right before God.

“Get up!” the Lord told him. “Go to the house of Judas on Straight Street and ask for a man from Tarsus named Saul, for he is praying.

and said, “O child of the devil and enemy of all righteousness, you are full of all kinds of deceit and trickery! Will you never stop perverting the straight ways of the Lord?

They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Beor, who loved the wages of wickedness.