33 Bible Verses about Fruits Of Righteousness

For I say to you, That, unless your righteousness excel that of the scribes and Pharisees, you can by no means enter into the kingdom of heaven.

The good man, out of his good treasury, brings forth good things; and the evil man, out of his evil treasury, brings forth evil things.

He that is of God, hears God's words. For this reason you do not hear them, because you are not of God.

Jesus answered and said to him: If any one loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our abode with him.

Abide in me, and I will abide in you. As the branch can not bear fruit of itself, unless it abide in the vine, so neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine, you are the branches. He that abides in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; for apart from me you can do nothing.

I speak of what is common among men, oil account of the weakness of your flesh: for as you have presented your members as servants to uncleanness, and to lawlessness, in order to lawlessness, so now present your members as servants to righteousness, in order to holiness. For when you were the servants of sin, you were free with respect to righteousness. What fruit, therefore, had you at that time, in those things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.read more.
But now, since you have been made free from sin, and have become servants to God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, eternal life.

that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

For the mind of the flesh is death; but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace.

For the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. For he who serves the Christ in these things is acceptable to God, and approved by men.

So, then, if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

Now, he that furnishes seed to the sower will both furnish bread for food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;

overthrowing reasonings and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and leading captive every thought to the obedience of the Christ,

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, self-control. Against such there is no law.

Be not deceived; God is not mocked. For whatever a man sows, that also shall he reap. For he that sows for his flesh shall from the flesh, reap corruption; but he that sows for his spirit shall from the Spirit reap life eternal.

(for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)

being filled with the fruit of righteousness, which fruit is by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

Only conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of the Christ, that, whether I come and see you, or be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one soul striving together for the faith of the gospel, and in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of destruction, but to you of salvation, and that from God.

for it is God, who, of his good pleasure, works in you both the will and the power to perform.

and have put on the new man, which is renewed for knowledge, ac cording to the image of him that created him;

Shun youthful desires, and follow righteousness, faithfulness, love, peace, with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give me at that day; and not to me only, but to all those who love his appearing.

that your participation in the faith may be active in the acknowledgment of every good thing that is in us, to the honor of Christ Jesus.

Does a fountain send forth from the same cavern sweet water and bitter? Can the fig-tree, my brethren, bear olives, or the vine, figs? So no fountain can produce salt water and fresh. Who is wise and discreet among you? Let him show, by a good behavior, his works, with the meekness of wisdom.read more.
But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom comes not from above, but is earthly, animal, demoniac. For where envy and strife are, there is commotion, and every evil work. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. And those who cultivate peace, sow for themselves a harvest of righteousness in peace.

so, even for this very purpose, uniting to these things all diligence, add to your faith, virtue; and to virtue, knowledge; and to knowledge, temperance; and to temperance, patience; and to patience, godliness; and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love.read more.
For if these things be in you, and abound, they cause you to be neither idle, nor unfruitful as it respects the acknowledgment of our Lord Jesus Christ. But he who is wanting in these things is blind, and closes his eyes, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.

And by this we know that we do know him, if we keep his commandments. He that says, I know him, and keeps not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoever keeps his word, in him truly is the love of God perfected: by this we know that we are in him.read more.
He that says, he abides in him, ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.

He that loves his brother abides in the light, and there is in him no cause for offense. He that hates his brother is in darkness, and walks in darkness; and he knows not whither he goes, because darkness has blinded his eyes.

Let that, therefore, abide in you which you have heard from the beginning. If that abide in you which you have heard from the beginning, you also shall abide in the Son and in the Father.

If you know that he is righteous, you know that every one that works righteousness has been begotten by him.

And every one that has this hope in Him purifies himself, even as He is pure.

Whoever abides in him, sins not. Whoever sins, has neither seen him nor known him. Little children, let no one deceive you: he that works righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

Whoever has been begotten of God does not work sin; because his seed remains in him: and he can not sin, because he has been begotten of God.

We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren: he that loves not his brother, abides in death.

and whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments, and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.