Job 17:9

KJV1611 – Modern English

The righteous also shall hold on to his way, and he that has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger.

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  • Prov 4:18 : 18 But the path of the just is like the shining light, that shines more and more unto the perfect day.
  • Job 22:30 : 30 He shall deliver the island of the innocent; and it is delivered by the purity of your hands.
  • 1 John 2:19 : 19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us.
  • Gen 20:5 : 5 Did he not say to me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself, said, He is my brother. In the integrity of my heart and innocence of my hands have I done this.
  • Ps 24:4 : 4 He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to idols, nor sworn deceitfully.
  • Ps 26:6 : 6 I will wash my hands in innocence, so I will circle Your altar, O LORD,
  • Ps 73:13 : 13 Surely I have kept my heart pure in vain, and washed my hands in innocence.
  • Ps 84:7 : 7 They go from strength to strength, each one appears before God in Zion.
  • Ps 84:11 : 11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield; the LORD will give grace and glory; no good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly.
  • Prov 14:16 : 16 A wise man fears and departs from evil, but the fool rages and is confident.
  • Isa 1:15-16 : 15 And when you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you: indeed, when you make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. 16 Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil;
  • Isa 35:8-9 : 8 And a highway shall be there, and a road, and it shall be called The Way of Holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it, but it shall be for others: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein. 9 No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up on it, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk there: 10 And the ransomed of the LORD shall return and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads; they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
  • Isa 40:29-31 : 29 He gives power to the faint, and to those who have no might he increases strength. 30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall, 31 But those who wait on the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.
  • Mark 7:2 : 2 And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is, with unwashed hands, they found fault.
  • 2 Cor 12:9-9 : 9 And He said to me, My grace is sufficient for you; for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10 Therefore, I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong.
  • 1 Pet 1:5 : 5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

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    6Righteousness guards him who is upright in the way, but wickedness overthrows the sinner.

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    4He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to idols, nor sworn deceitfully.

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    16A little that the righteous has is better than the riches of many wicked.

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  • Prov 2:20-21
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    20That you may walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.

    21For the upright will dwell in the land, and the perfect will remain in it.

  • Prov 10:29-30
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    29The way of the LORD is strength to the upright, but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.

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  • Prov 21:29
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    29A wicked man hardens his face, but as for the upright, he directs his way.

  • Prov 11:5-6
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    5The righteousness of the blameless shall direct his way, but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.

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    9He who walks uprightly walks surely, but he who perverts his ways shall be known.

  • Eccl 7:18-19
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    18It is good that you should take hold of this, and also from this do not withdraw your hand; for he who fears God will escape them all.

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  • Prov 21:8
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    8The way of the guilty is crooked and strange, but as for the pure, his work is right.

  • Job 22:30
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    30He shall deliver the island of the innocent; and it is delivered by the purity of your hands.

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    3The integrity of the upright shall guide them, but the crookedness of transgressors shall destroy them.

  • 1 Sam 2:9
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    9He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no one prevail.

  • Prov 4:18
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    18But the path of the just is like the shining light, that shines more and more unto the perfect day.

  • Ps 94:15
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    15But judgment shall return to righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it.

  • Isa 26:7
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    7The way of the just is uprightness; You, most upright, weigh the path of the just.

  • Prov 12:7
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    7The wicked are overthrown and are no more, but the house of the righteous will stand.

  • Ps 7:9
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    9Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God tries the hearts and minds.

  • Isa 33:15
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    15He who walks righteously, and speaks uprightly; he who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands from holding bribes, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed, and shuts his eyes from seeing evil;

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    16The right hand of the LORD is exalted; the right hand of the LORD does valiantly.

  • Ps 37:24
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    24Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down, for the LORD upholds him with his hand.

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    3For the scepter of the wicked shall not rest on the land allotted to the righteous, lest the righteous extend their hands to wrongdoing.

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    13Surely I have kept my heart pure in vain, and washed my hands in innocence.

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    10Even there Your hand shall lead me, and Your right hand shall hold me.

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    29The righteous shall inherit the land and live in it forever.

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    19The righteous see it and are glad, and the innocent laugh them to scorn.

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    30If I wash myself with snow water, and cleanse my hands thoroughly;

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    6The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him:

  • Hos 14:9
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    9Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.

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    11My foot has held fast to his steps; his way have I kept, and not turned aside.

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    5Hold up my steps in your paths, that my footsteps do not slip.

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    42The righteous shall see it, and rejoice: and all iniquity shall stop its mouth.