Whoever receives a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward. Whoever ¹  receives a righteous person in the name of a righteous person will receive a righteous person’s reward.

I have not come ¹  to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.” ² 

just as it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one,

Instead he must be hospitable, devoted to what is good, sensible, upright, devout, and self-controlled.

(for while he lived among them day after day, that righteous man was tormented in his righteous soul ¹  by the lawless deeds he saw and heard ² )

Little children, let no one deceive you: The one who practices righteousness ¹  is righteous, just as Jesus ²  is righteous.

And these will depart into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

“And ¹  why don’t you judge for yourselves what is right?

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

Do not judge according to external appearance, ¹  but judge with proper ²  judgment.”

So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.

Children, ¹  obey your parents in the Lord ²  for this is right.

For it is right ¹  for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you,

You have condemned and murdered the righteous person, although he does not resist you. ¹ 

And if the righteous are barely saved, what will become of ¹  the ungodly and sinners? ² 

and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man in anguish over the debauched lifestyle of lawless ¹  men, ² 

so that on you will come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Barachiah, ¹  whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

Because Joseph, her husband to be, ¹  was a righteous man, and because he did not want to disgrace her, he intended to divorce her ²  privately.

He said to them, ‘You go into the vineyard too, and I will give you whatever is right.’

In the same way, on the outside you look righteous to people, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.