These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God.
And they were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and statutes of the Lord.
By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.
if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;
Then the Lord said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation.
Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him.
Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for “The righteous shall live by faith.”
When Abram was ninety-nine years old the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless,
Enoch walked with God after he fathered Methuselah 300 years and had other sons and daughters.
even if these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness, declares the Lord God.
There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil.
These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.
you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.
And they said, “Cornelius, a centurion, an upright and God-fearing man, who is well spoken of by the whole Jewish nation, was directed by a holy angel to send for you to come to his house and to hear what you have to say.”
even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live, declares the Lord God, they would deliver neither son nor daughter. They would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness.
And the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil?”
and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith— that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,
For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”
Now there was a man named Joseph, from the Jewish town of Arimathea. He was a member of the council, a good and righteous man,
Now there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon, and this man was righteous and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him.
“Behold, his soul is puffed up; it is not upright within him, but the righteous shall live by his faith.
But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day.
Mark the blameless and behold the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace.
But the high places were not taken out of Israel. Nevertheless, the heart of Asa was wholly true all his days.
And he blessed Joseph and said, “The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has been my shepherd all my life long to this day,
I am a laughingstock to my friends; I, who called to God and he answered me, a just and blameless man, am a laughingstock.
And Solomon said, “You have shown great and steadfast love to your servant David my father, because he walked before you in faithfulness, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart toward you. And you have kept for him this great and steadfast love and have given him a son to sit on his throne this day.
And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, yet not with a whole heart.
These are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.
This is the book of the generations of Adam. When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God.
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