Bible verses about "character" | Rotherham

¹ More choice, is a name, than great riches, beyond silver and gold, is pleasant grace.
² The rich and the poor, meet together, the maker of them all, is Yahweh.
³ A prudent man, seeth calamity, and hideth himself, but, the simple, pass on, and suffer.
⁴ The reward of humility, is the reverence of Yahweh, riches, and honour, and life.
⁵ Thorns and snares, are in the way of the perverse,––he that guardeth his soul, shall be far from them.
⁶ Train up a youth, in the direction of his duty, even when he becometh old, he will not depart from it.
⁷ The rich, over the poor, beareth rule,––and, slave, is the borrower to the lender.
⁸ He that soweth perversity, shall reap trouble, and, the rod of his wrath, shall be ready.
⁹ A benevolent eye, the same, shall be blessed,––because he hath given of his bread to the poor.
¹⁰ Drive away the scoffer, that strife may depart, and quarrel, and contempt may cease.
¹¹ Yahweh loveth the pure in heart, gracious are his lips, his friend is the king!
¹² The eyes of Yahweh, watch over knowledge, therefore hath he overturned the words of the treacherous.
¹³ Saith the sluggard, A lion outside! Amidst the broadways, shall I be slain.
¹⁴ A deep chasm, is the mouth of strange women, he with whom Yahweh is indignant, falleth there.
¹⁵ Foolishness, is bound up in the heart of a youth, the rod of correction, shall drive it far from him.
¹⁶ He that oppresseth the poor, to make increase for himself, giving to the rich, shall surely come to want.
¹⁷ Incline thine ear and hear the words of wise men, then, thy heart, wilt thou apply to my teaching; ¹⁸ For sweet shall they be, when thou shalt keep them in thine inmost mind, they shall fit well together, upon thy lips. ¹⁹ That in Yahweh may be thy trust, I have made them known to thee today, even to thee. ²⁰ Have I not written for thee noble things, with counsels and knowledge: ²¹ To cause thee to know the meaning of faithful sayings, that thou mayest give back faithful sayings to them who ask thee.
²² Do not rob the poor, because he is poor, neither crush thou the oppressed in the gate; ²³ For, Yahweh, will plead their cause, and will despoil their despoilers of life.
²⁴ Do not have friendship with one given to anger, and, with a wrathful man, shall thou not enter in: ²⁵ Lest thou learn his ways, and take a snare to thy soul.
²⁶ Be not of them who strike hands, of them who are sureties for debts: ²⁷ If thou hast nothing to pay, why should one take away thy bed from under thee?
²⁸ Do not move back the ancient boundary, which thy father’s made.
²⁹ Seest thou a man prompt in his business? before kings, shall he stand, he shall not stand before men who are obscure.

⁹ He that walketh uprightly, may walk securely, but, he that maketh crooked his ways, shall be found out.

² And be not configuring yourselves unto this age, but be transforming yourselves by the renewing of your mind, to the end ye may be proving what is the thing willed by God––the good and acceptable and perfect.

⁸ For the rest, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are dignified, whatsoever things are righteous, whatsoever things are chaste, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report,––if there be any virtue, and if any praise, the same, be taking into account;

³ And, not only so, but let us boast also in our tribulations; knowing that, our tribulation, worketh out endurance. ⁴ And, our endurance, a testing, and, our testing, hope, ⁵ And, our hope, putteth not to shame. Because, the love of God, hath been poured out in our hearts, through the Holy Spirit that hath been given unto us:

¹² So, then, my beloved––even as ye have always obeyed, not [as] in my presence only, but, now, much more, in my absence, with fear and trembling, your own salvation, be working out; ¹³ For it is, God, who energiseth within you, both the desiring and the energising, in behalf of his good pleasure.
¹⁴ All things, be doing, apart from murmurings and disputings; ¹⁵ In order that ye may become faultless and inviolate, children of God, blameless amidst a crooked and perverted generation, amongst whom ye appear as luminaries in the world, ¹⁶ A word of light, holding forth,––as a matter of boasting unto me, for the day of Christ,––that, not in vain, I ran, nor, in vain, I toiled:––

³ As, all things, suited for life and godliness his divine power, unto us, hath given, through the personal knowledge of him that hath called us through glory and excellence,–– ⁴ Through which, his precious, and very great, promises, have, unto us, been given, in order that, through these, ye might become sharers in a divine nature––escaping the corruption that is in the world by coveting.
⁵ And, for this very reason also––adding, on your part, all diligence, supply, in your faith, excellence, and, in your excellence, knowledge, ⁶ And, in your knowledge, self–control, and, in your self–control, endurance, and, in your endurance, godliness, ⁷ And, in your godliness, brotherly affection, and, in your brotherly affection, love. ⁸ These things, unto you, belonging and abounding, neither idle nor unfruitful, constitute you, regarding the personal knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ; ⁹ For, he to whom these things are not present, is, blind, seeing only what is near, having come, to forget, his purification from his old sins. ¹⁰ Wherefore, all the more, brethren, give diligence to be making, firm, your calling and election; for, these things, doing, in nowise shall ye stumble at any time, ¹¹ For, thus, shall richly be further supplied unto you––the entrance into the age–abiding kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

⁷ But Yahweh said unto Samuel––Do not regard his countenance, or the height of his stature, for I have rejected him,––for it is not what man looketh to but what God looketh to. For, man, looketh to the outward appearance, but, Yahweh, looketh to the heart.

¹ Having, therefore, been declared righteous by faith, let us have, peace, towards God, through our Lord Jesus Christ,–– ² Through whom also we have had, our introduction, [by our faith] into this favour wherein we stand; and let us boast in hope of the glory of God. ³ And, not only so, but let us boast also in our tribulations; knowing that, our tribulation, worketh out endurance. ⁴ And, our endurance, a testing, and, our testing, hope, ⁵ And, our hope, putteth not to shame. Because, the love of God, hath been poured out in our hearts, through the Holy Spirit that hath been given unto us: