Bible Verses about βwalking uprightβ
The Bible contains 50 verses about walking upright across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
βAll scripture [is] given by inspiration of God, and [is] profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:β
βFor men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,β
βThat the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.β
βHaving a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.β
βΒΆ This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.β
βTraitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;β
βWithout natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,β
βHe hath shewed thee, O man, what [is] good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?β
βΒΆ I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,β
βAnd that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.β
βEver learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.β
βFor of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,β
βBut continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned [them];β
βYea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.β
βNow as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.β
βBut evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.β
βBut they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all [men], as theirs also was.β
βΒΆ But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience,β
βPersecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of [them] all the Lord delivered me.β
βΒΆ He that walketh uprightly walketh surely: but he that perverteth his ways shall be known.β
βΒΆ The just [man] walketh in his integrity: his children [are] blessed after him.β
βFor the LORD God [is] a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good [thing] will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.β
βHe layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: [he is] a buckler to them that walk uprightly.β
βAnd said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.β
βHe shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, [each one] walking [in] his uprightness.β
βAnd it was so, when the days of [their] feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings [according] to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.β
βΒΆ 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 eschewed evil.β
βHast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.β
βΒΆ Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,β
βΒΆ And his sons went and feasted [in their] houses, every one his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.β
βIn all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.β
βHe that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.β
βΒΆ [A Psalm] of David. Judge me, O LORD; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in the LORD; [therefore] I shall not slide.β
βΒΆ Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them.β
βΒΆ And there was a day when his sons and his daughters [were] eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:β
βAnd there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:β
βAnd the Sabeans fell [upon them], and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.β
βWhile he [was] yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.β
βWhile he [was] yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.β
βWhile he [was] yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters [were] eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:β
βAnd, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.β
βAnd they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.β
βAnd the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.β
βAnd the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that [there is] none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?β
βAnd the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath [is] in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD.β
βΒΆ And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I [am] the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.β
βAnd there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters.β
βHis substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.β
βThen Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought?β
βBut put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.β
