Bible on Dharma

I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.

O LORD, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us.

Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.

All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.

And he appointed, according to the order of David his father, the courses of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their charges, to praise and minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required: the porters also by their courses at every gate: for so had David the man of God commanded.

Also Jehoiada appointed the offices of the house of the LORD by the hand of the priests the Levites, whom David had distributed in the house of the LORD, to offer the burnt offerings of the LORD, as it is written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, as it was ordained by David.

And Solomon said, Thou hast shewed unto thy servant David my father great mercy, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.

And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah, and he offered upon the altar. So did he in Bethel, sacrificing unto the calves that he had made: and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places which he had made.

And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.

O LORD, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee.

And the LORD shall return his blood upon his own head, who fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the sword, my father David not knowing thereof, to wit, Abner the son of Ner, captain of the host of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of Judah.

Likewise this is the law of the trespass offering: it is most holy.

This is the law of the beasts, and of the fowl, and of every living creature that moveth in the waters, and of every creature that creepeth upon the earth:

This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD hath commanded, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein is no blemish, and upon which never came yoke:

These are the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe to do in the land, which the LORD God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth.

This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.

And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.

The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.

The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.

Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.

O let the nations be glad and sing for joy: for thou shalt judge the people righteously, and govern the nations upon earth. Selah.

Say among the heathen that the LORD reigneth: the world also shall be established that it shall not be moved: he shall judge the people righteously.

That they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Praise ye the LORD.

So shall I keep thy law continually for ever and ever.

The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver.

Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe: and I will have respect unto thy statutes continually.

Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.

For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:

Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.

He that is despised, and hath a servant, is better than he that honoureth himself, and lacketh bread.

Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.

Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife.

Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.

Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.

They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them.

Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous men shameth his father.

Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.

Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.

This is the law of the house; Upon the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.

And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.

It is also written in your law, that the testimony of two men is true.

(For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.

(For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.

Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.

Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except it be that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong.

Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.

For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;

God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.

If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:

For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.