Psalms 1 - 18

To Abraham, the Lord revealed one of the purposes of life -

"...we will prove them herewith, to see if they will do all things whatsoever the Lord their God shall command them..." (Pearl of Great Price Abraham 3:25)

Part of that process is -

"...The LORD trieth the righteous..." (Old Testament Psalms 11:5)

"For the righteous LORD loveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold the upright." (Old Testament Psalms 11:7)

David asks -

"LORD, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill?" (Old Testament Psalms 15:1)

The answer being -

"He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness..." (Old Testament Psalms 15:2)

What is righteousness? He who -

"...speaketh the truth in his heart." (Old Testament Psalms 15:2)

"...lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net..." (Old Testament Psalms 10:9)

"...he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble..." (Old Testament Psalms 9:12)

"...that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour." (Old Testament Psalms 15:3)

"...putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent." (Old Testament Psalms 15:5)

And -

"...BLESSED is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night." (Old Testament Psalms 1:1 - 2)

Paul taught that righteousness or -

"...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." (New Testament James 1:27)

The scriptures are very clear -

"...who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill?" (Old Testament Psalms 15:1)