And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more than all whole burnt-offerings and sacrifices.

For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice: and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings.

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

He hath shown thee, O man, what is good; and what the LORD doth require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.

For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Spirit, and of faith: and many people were added to the Lord.

A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, who gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God always.

Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth; and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD.

That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offense till the day of Christ;

Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our manner of life in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

For we are not as many, who corrupt the word of God: but as from sincerity, but as from God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ.

And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more than all whole burnt-offerings and sacrifices.

For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice: and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings.

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

He hath shown thee, O man, what is good; and what the LORD doth require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.

And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and performed that which was good and right and truth before the LORD his God.

And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldst bless me indeed, and enlarge my border, and that thy hand might be with me, and that thou wouldst keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested.

When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.

And Enoch walked with God, and he was not: for God took him.

These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man, and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.

Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber towards Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did before.

And one Ananias, a devout man according to the law, having a good report of all the Jews who dwelt there,

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!

And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him.

And behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Spirit was upon him.

And she was a widow of about eighty four years, who departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and shunned evil.