Psalm 5:4
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4 For you are not a God who delights in wickedness;
evil will not sojourn with you.(A)
Hebrews 12:14
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Warnings against Rejecting God’s Grace
14 Pursue peace with everyone and the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.
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Psalm 50:21
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21 These things you have done, and I have been silent;
you thought that I was one just like yourself.
But now I rebuke you and lay the charge before you.(A)
Psalm 140:13
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13 Surely the righteous shall give thanks to your name;
the upright shall live in your presence.(A)
Revelation 21:27
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27 But nothing unclean will enter it, nor anyone who practices abomination or falsehood, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.(A)
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Malachi 2:17
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17 You have wearied the Lord with your words. Yet you say, “How have we wearied him?” By saying, “All who do evil are good in the sight of the Lord, and he delights in them.” Or by asking, “Where is the God of justice?”(A)
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Habakkuk 1:13
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13 Your eyes are too pure to behold evil,
and you cannot look on wrongdoing;
why do you look on the treacherous
and are silent when the wicked swallow
those more righteous than they?(A)
Psalm 11:5
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5 The Lord tests the righteous and the wicked,
and his soul hates the lover of violence.(A)
2 Peter 3:13
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13 But, in accordance with his promise, we wait for new heavens and a new earth, where righteousness is at home.(A)
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Psalm 101:7
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7 No one who practices deceit
shall remain in my house;
no one who utters lies
shall continue in my presence.
Psalm 94:20
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20 Can wicked rulers be allied with you,
those who contrive mischief by statute?(A)
Psalm 92:15
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15 showing that the Lord is upright;
he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.(A)
1 Chronicles 29:17
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17 I know, my God, that you search the heart and take pleasure in uprightness; in the uprightness of my heart I have freely offered all these things, and now I have seen your people who are present here offering freely and joyously to you.(A)
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Revelation 21:23
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23 And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God is its light, and its lamp is the Lamb.(A)
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John 14:23
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23 Jesus answered him, “Those who love me will keep my word, and my Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.(A)
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