24 Bible Verses about People In Righteousness

On my righteousness I have laid hold, And I do not let it go, My heart doth not reproach me while I live.

By David. Judge me, O Jehovah, for I in mine integrity have walked, And in Jehovah I have trusted, I slide not.

And I, in mine integrity I walk, Redeem me, and favour me.

Ain. I have done judgment and righteousness, Leave me not to mine oppressors.

Righteousness I have put on, and it clotheth me, As a robe and a diadem my justice.

I -- in righteousness, I see Thy face; I am satisfied, in awaking, with Thy form!

Light hath risen in darkness to the upright, Gracious, and merciful, and righteous.

Wealth and riches are in his house, And his righteousness is standing for ever.

He hath scattered -- hath given to the needy, His righteousness is standing for ever, His horn is exalted with honour.

(according as it hath been written, 'He dispersed abroad, he gave to the poor, his righteousness doth remain to the age,')

Integrity and uprightness do keep me, For I have waited on Thee.

and burn doth the anger of Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram; against Job hath his anger burned, because of his justifying himself more than God;

Then broken up as the dawn is thy light, And thy health in haste springeth up, Gone before thee hath thy righteousness, The honour of Jehovah doth gather thee.

Hearken unto Me, ye who know righteousness, A people, in whose heart is My law, Fear ye not the reproach of men, And for their reviling be not affrighted,

O that thou hadst attended to My commands, Then as a river is thy peace, And thy righteousness as billows of the sea,

And Jehovah saith unto me: 'Justified herself hath backsliding Israel, More than treacherous Judah.

Thou also -- bear thy shame, That thou hast adjudged to thy sisters, Because of thy sins that thou hast done more abominably than they, They are more righteous than thou, And thou, also, be ashamed and bear thy shame, In thy justifying thy sisters.

As to Samaria, as the half of thy sins -- she hath not sinned, And thou dost multiply thine abominations more than they, And dost justify thy sisters by all thy abominations that thou hast done.

The soul that doth sin -- it doth die. A son doth not bear of the iniquity of the father, And a father doth not bear of the iniquity of the son, The righteousness of the righteous is on him, And the wickedness of the wicked is on him.

And thou, son of man, say unto the sons of thy people: The righteousness of the righteous doth not deliver him in the day of his transgression, And the wickedness of the wicked, He doth not stumble for it in the day of his turning from his wickedness, And the righteous is not able to live in it in the day of his sinning.

Incline, O my God, Thine ear, and hear, open Thine eyes and see our desolations, and the city on which Thy name is called; for not for our righteous acts are we causing our supplications to fall before Thee, but for Thy mercies that are many.

Terrible and fearful it is, From itself its judgment and its excellency go forth.

and Israel, pursuing a law of righteousness, at a law of righteousness did not arrive;

but a lover of strangers, a lover of good men, sober-minded, righteous, kind, self-controlled,