#  The Righteous Shall Live By Faith

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#  Scripture

I will take my stand at my watchpost
 and station myself on the tower,
and look out to see what he will say to me,
 and what I will answer concerning my complaint.

### The Righteous Shall Live by His Faith

2 And the Lord answered me:

“Write the vision;
 make it plain on tablets,
 so he may run who reads it.
3 For still the vision awaits its appointed time;
 it hastens to the end—it will not lie.
If it seems slow, wait for it;
 it will surely come; it will not delay.

4 “Behold, his soul is puffed up; it is not upright within him,
 but the righteous shall live by his faith.\[[a](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Habakkuk+2%3A1-5&version=ESV#fen-ESV-22753a "See footnote a")\]

5 “Moreover, wine\[[b](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Habakkuk+2%3A1-5&version=ESV#fen-ESV-22754b "See footnote b")\] is a traitor,

 an arrogant man who is never at rest.\[[c](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Habakkuk+2%3A1-5&version=ESV#fen-ESV-22754c "See footnote c")\]

His greed is as wide as Sheol;
 like death he has never enough.
He gathers for himself all nations
 and collects as his own all peoples.”

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