During his days the godly will flourish; ¹  peace will prevail as long as the moon remains in the sky. ² 

My eyes grow tired as I wait for your deliverance, ¹  for your reliable promise to be fulfilled. ² 

Do not sit in judgment on ¹  your servant, for no one alive is innocent before you. ² 

What the righteous say ¹  is like ²  the best ³  silver, but what the wicked think ⁴  is of little value. ⁵ 

It is terrible ¹  to show partiality ²  to the wicked, ³  by depriving ⁴  a righteous man of justice.

Doing ¹  justice brings ²  joy to the righteous and terror ³  to those who do evil.

Although ¹  a righteous person may fall seven times, he gets up again, but the wicked will be brought down ²  by calamity.

For ¹  there is not one truly ²  righteous person on the earth who continually does good and never sins.

Now ¹  there was a man named Joseph who was a member of the council, ²  a good and righteous man.

But you rejected ¹  the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a man who was a murderer be released to you.

The godly ¹  will rejoice when they see vengeance carried out; they will bathe their feet in the blood of the wicked.

The Lord gives sight to the blind. The Lord lifts up all who are bent over. ¹  The Lord loves the godly.

In the house ¹  of the righteous is abundant wealth, ²  but the income of the wicked brings trouble. ³ 

The heart of the righteous considers ¹  how ²  to answer, ³  but the mouth of the wicked pours out evil things. ⁴ 

Go and learn what this saying means: ‘I want mercy and not sacrifice.’ ¹  For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. ¹  The one who has ears had better listen! ² 

“Woe to you, experts in the law ¹  and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You ²  build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves ³  of the righteous.

Then the righteous will answer him, ¹  ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink?

Jesus ¹  also told this parable to some who were confident that they were righteous and looked down ²  on everyone else.

For just as through the disobedience of the one man ¹  many ²  were made sinners, so also through the obedience of one man ³  many ⁴  will be made righteous.