24 Bible Verses about People In Righteousness

My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.

{A Psalm of David.} Judge me, O LORD; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in the LORD; therefore I shall not slide.

But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity: redeem me, and be merciful unto me.

AIN. I have done judgment and justice: leave me not to mine oppressors.

I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.

As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.

Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.

Wealth and riches shall be in his house: and his righteousness endureth for ever.

He hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor; his righteousness endureth for ever; his horn shall be exalted with honour.

(As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the poor: his righteousness remaineth for ever.

Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.

Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself rather than God.

Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward.

Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings.

O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:

And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah.

Thou also, which hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own shame for thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable than they: they are more righteous than thou: yea, be thou confounded also, and bear thy shame, in that thou hast justified thy sisters.

Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou hast multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast justified thy sisters in all thine abominations which thou hast done.

The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.

Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth.

O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies.

They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves.

But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.

But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;