We were binding sheaves of grain out in the field when suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around mine and bowed down to it.”

“Make upright frames of acacia wood for the tabernacle.

They made upright frames of acacia wood for the tabernacle.

He is the Rock, his works are perfect, and all his ways are just. A faithful God who does no wrong, upright and just is he.

The Lord will repay him for the blood he shed, because without my father David knowing it he attacked two men and killed them with the sword. Both of them—Abner son of Ner, commander of Israel’s army, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of Judah’s army—were better men and more upright than he.

Solomon answered, “You have shown great kindness to your servant, my father David, because he was faithful to you and righteous and upright in heart. You have continued this great kindness to him and have given him a son to sit on his throne this very day.

This is how the stands were made: They had side panels attached to uprights.

On the panels between the uprights were lions, bulls and cherubim—and on the uprights as well. Above and below the lions and bulls were wreaths of hammered work.

“As for you, if you walk before me faithfully with integrity of heart and uprightness, as David your father did, and do all I command and observe my decrees and laws,

Prologue

In the land of Uz there lived a man whose name was Job. This man was blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil.

Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil.”

Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil. And he still maintains his integrity, though you incited me against him to ruin him without any reason.”

“Consider now: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Where were the upright ever destroyed?

if you are pure and upright, even now he will rouse himself on your behalf and restore you to your prosperous state.

The upright are appalled at this; the innocent are aroused against the ungodly.

There the upright can establish their innocence before him, and there I would be delivered forever from my judge.

My words come from an upright heart; my lips sincerely speak what I know.

Yet if there is an angel at their side, a messenger, one out of a thousand, sent to tell them how to be upright,

My shield is God Most High, who saves the upright in heart.

For look, the wicked bend their bows; they set their arrows against the strings to shoot from the shadows at the upright in heart.

For the Lord is righteous, he loves justice; the upright will see his face.

Good and upright is the Lord; therefore he instructs sinners in his ways.

May integrity and uprightness protect me, because my hope, Lord, is in you.

Rejoice in the Lord and be glad, you righteous; sing, all you who are upright in heart!

Psalm 33

Sing joyfully to the Lord, you righteous; it is fitting for the upright to praise him.