¹³ You are to be upright in heart before the Lord your God.

⁹ These are the generations of Noah. Noah was an upright man and without sin in his generation: he went in the ways of God.

¹ When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord came to him, and said, I am God, Ruler of all; go in my ways and be upright in all things,

⁴⁸ Be then complete in righteousness, even as your Father in heaven is complete.

¹ There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. He was without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil.

⁸ And the Lord said to the Satan, Have you taken note of my servant Job, for there is no one like him on the earth, a man without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil?

³⁷ Give attention to the good man, and take note of the upright; because the end of that man is peace.

¹² Not as if I had even now got the reward or been made complete: but I go on in the hope that I may come to the knowledge of that for which I was made the servant of Christ Jesus.

¹⁵ Then let us all, who have come to full growth, be of this mind: and if in anything you are of a different mind, even this will God make clear to you:

² Be on the watch, and make strong the rest of the things which are near to death; because as judged by me your works have not come up to God's measure.