Careful Words

righteous (n.)

righteous (adj.)

  The wicked flee when no man pursueth; but the righteous are bold as a lion.

Old Testament: Proverbs xxviii. 1.

  Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!

Old Testament: Numbers xxiii. 10.

  I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.

Old Testament: Psalm xxxvii. 25.

  The righteous hath hope in his death.

Old Testament: Proverbs xiv. 32.

  A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast; but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

Old Testament: Proverbs xii. 10.

  Be not righteous overmuch.

Old Testament: Ecclesiastes vii. 16.

Ay me, how many perils doe enfold

The righteous man, to make him daily fall!

Edmund Spenser (1553-1599): Faerie Queene. Book i. Canto viii. St. 1.

  The righteous shall flourish like the palm-tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

Old Testament: Psalm xcii. 12.