10 Bible Verses about A Righteous People

For I tell you, unless your goodness excels that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never get into the Realm of heaven.

But Jesus answered him, "Come now, this is how we should fulfil all our duty to God." Then John gave in to him.

The Reign of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, it means righteousness, peace, and joy in the holy Spirit;

putting on the new nature, that divine pattern which has been created in the upright and pious character of the Truth.

your life covered with that harvest of righteousness which Jesus Christ produces to the glory and the praise of God.

and it schools us to renounce irreligion and worldly passions and to live a life of self-mastery, of integrity, and of piety in this present world,

He who furnishes the sower with seed and with bread to eat will supply seed for you and multiply it; he will increase the crop of your charities ??11 you will be enriched on all hands, so that you can be generous on all occasions, and your generosity, of which I am the agent, will make men give thanks to God;

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for goodness! they will be satisfied.

Discipline always seems for the time to be a thing of pain, not of joy; but those who are trained by it reap the fruit of it afterwards in the peace of an upright life.

and the peacemakers who sow in peace reap righteousness.