24 Bible Verses about People In Righteousness

On my righteousness, have I taken fast hold, and will not give it up, My heart shall not reproach any of my days.

Do me justice, O Yahweh, For, I, in my blamelessness, have walked, and, in Yahweh, have I trusted, I will not waver.

But, I, in my blamelessness, will walk, Redeem me and show me favour.

[AYIN] I have done justice and righteousness, - Do not leave me to mine oppressors.

Righteousness, I put on, and it clothed me, Like a robe and turban, was my, justice;

I, in righteousness, shall behold thy face, Shall be satisfied when awakened by a vision of thee.

Risen - in darkness, is light to the upright, The gracious and compassionate and righteous.

Wealth and riches, shall be in his house, and, his righteousness, standeth for aye.

He hath scattered abroad, he hath given to the needy, His righteousness, standeth for aye, His horn, shall be exalted in honour.

Even as it is written - He hath scattered abroad, he hath given to the needy, - his righteousness, abideth to futurity.

Let, blamelessness and uprightness, watch over me, because I have waited for thee.

Then was kindled the anger of Elihu, son of Barachel the Buzite of the family of Ram, - against Job, was kindled his anger, because he justified his own soul rather than God;

Then, shall break forth, as the dawn, thy light, And thy new flesh shall speedily grow, - Then shall go before thee, thy righteousness, the glory of Yahweh shall bring up thy rear:

Hearken unto me ye who discern righteousness, The people in whose heart is my law, - Do not fear the reproach of frail men, Nor at their revilings, be dismayed;

Oh! that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments, - Then had been, like a river, thy prosperity, And, thy righteousness, like the waves of the sea:

Then said Yahweh unto me, - Apostate Israel, hath justified herself, - more than treacherous Judah.

Thou also bear thine own reproach, which thou didst adjudge to thy sisters, by thy sins in which thou wast more abominable than they, thou didst make them appear more righteous than thou, - Thou also, therefore turn thou pale and bear thine own reproach, for making thy sisters appear righteous!

Nor did Samaria commit lone-half thy sins, - But thou didst multiply thine abominations more than they, And didst cause thy sisters to appear righteous I by all the abominations which thou didst commit.

The person that sinneth, the same, shall die, - the son shall not bear a part of the iniquity of, the father, neither shall a father bear a part of the iniquity of the son, the righteousness of the righteous upon himself, shall be. And the lawlessness of a lawless man upon himself, shall be.

Thou, therefore, Son of man Say unto the sons of thy people - The righteousness of the righteous man, shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression, And as for the lawlessness of the lawless man, He shall not stumble thereby, in the day of his return from his lawlessness,- Nor shall the righteous man be able to live thereby, in the day of his sin.

Incline, O my God, thine ear, and hearken, open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city on which hath been called thy name; for, not on the ground of our own righteousnesses, are we causing our supplications to fall down before thee, but on the ground of thine abounding compassions.

Awful and fearful, is he, - from himself, his decision and his uprising, proceed.

Whereas, Israel, though in pursuit of a law of righteousness, unto a law, have not attained.

But hospitable, a lover of what is good, sober-minded, just, kind, possessing self-control,