Job 22:3

3Is it any pleasure to the Almighty if you are in the right,
or is it gain to him if you amake your ways blameless?

Psalms 16:2-3

2I say to the Lord, “You are my Lord;
bI have no good apart from you.”
3 As for cthe saints in the land, they are the excellent ones,
in whom is all my delight.
Or To the saints in the land, the excellent in whom is all my delight, I say:

Isaiah 64:6

6 eWe have all become like one who is unclean,
and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment.
fWe all fade like a leaf,
and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

Romans 11:35

35Or gwho has given a gift to him
that he might be repaid?”

1 Corinthians 9:16-17

16For if I preach the gospel, that gives me no ground for boasting. For hnecessity is laid upon me. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel! 17For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward, but if not of my own will, I am still entrusted with ia stewardship.
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