61 Bible Verses about Righteousness, Of Believers

And it will be our righteousness if we take care to keep all this order before the Lord our God as he has given it to us.

I will keep it safe, and will not let it go: my heart has nothing to say against any part of my life.

My little children, let no man take you out of the true way: he who does righteousness is upright, even as he is upright;

These are the generations of Noah. Noah was an upright man and without sin in his generation: he went in the ways of God.

For I have made him mine so that he may give orders to his children and those of his line after him, to keep the ways of the Lord, to do what is good and right: so that the Lord may do to Abraham as he has said.

Keep with care the orders of the Lord your God, and his rules and his laws which he has given you; And do what is upright and good in the eyes of the Lord your God, so that it may be well for you and you may go in and take for your heritage that good land from which the Lord undertook by an oath to your fathers,

And Solomon said, Great was your mercy to David my father, as his life before you was true and upright and his heart was true to you; and you have kept for him this greatest mercy, a son to take his place this day.

Asa did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as David his father did.

This Hezekiah did through all Judah; he did what was good and right and true before the Lord his God.

The Lord will be judge of the peoples; give a decision for me, O Lord, because of my righteousness, and let my virtue have its reward.

Lord, who may have a resting-place in your tent, a living-place on your holy hill?

Let my cause come to your ears, O Lord, give attention to my cry; give ear to my prayer which goes not out from false lips.

Be glad in the Lord with joy, you upright men; give cries of joy, all you whose hearts are true.

You have been a lover of righteousness and a hater of evil: and so God, your God, has put the oil of joy on your head, lifting you high over all other kings.

The way of the good man is straight; the road of the upright is made smooth by you. We have been waiting for you, O Lord; the desire of our soul is for the memory of your name. In the night the desire of my soul has been for you; early will my spirit be searching for you; for when your punishments come on the earth, the people of the world will get the knowledge of righteousness.

If only you had given ear to my orders, then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness as the waves of the sea:

Give ear to me, you who are searching for righteousness, who are looking for the Lord: see the rock from which you were cut out, and the hole out of which you were taken.

He who is wise will see these things; he who has good sense will have knowledge of them. For the ways of the Lord are straight, and the upright will go in them, but sinners will be falling in them.

And there was then in Jerusalem a man whose name was Simeon; and he was an upright man, fearing God and waiting for the comfort of Israel: and the Holy Spirit was on him.

But Peter and John in answer said to them, It is for you to say if it is right in the eyes of God to give attention to you more than to God:

Do not keep company with those who have not faith: for what is there in common between righteousness and evil, or between light and dark?

And that from the time when you were a child, you have had knowledge of the holy Writings, which are able to make you wise to salvation, through faith in Christ Jesus. Every holy Writing which comes from God is of profit for teaching, for training, for guiding, for education in righteousness:

But let the right go rolling on like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

But let your first care be for his kingdom and his righteousness; and all these other things will be given to you in addition.

Be washed, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; let there be an end of sinning; Take pleasure in well-doing; let your ways be upright, keep down the cruel, give a right decision for the child who has no father, see to the cause of the widow.

The Lord says, Let your way of life be upright, and let your behaviour be rightly ordered: for my salvation is near, and my righteousness will quickly be seen.

This is what the Lord has said: Do what is right, judging uprightly, and make free from the hands of the cruel one him whose goods have been violently taken away: do no wrong and be not violent to the man from a strange country and the child without a father and the widow, and let not those who have done no wrong be put to death in this place.

Put in the seed of righteousness, get in your grain in mercy, let your unploughed earth be turned up: for it is time to make search for the Lord, till he comes and sends righteousness on you like rain.

Make search for the Lord, all you quiet ones of the earth, who have done what is right in his eyes; make search for righteousness and a quiet heart: it may be that you will be safely covered in the day of the Lord's wrath.

Happy are those whose heart's desire is for righteousness: for they will have their desire.

Take your place, then, having your body clothed with the true word, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness;

But you, O man of God, keep yourself from these things, and go after righteousness, religion, faith, love, a quiet mind, gentle behaviour.

But keep yourself from those desires of the flesh which are strong when the body is young, and go after righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those whose prayers go up to the Lord from a clean heart.

The Lord makes open the eyes of the blind; the Lord is the lifter up of those who are bent down; the Lord is a lover of the upright;

The way of the evil-doer is disgusting to the Lord, but he who goes after righteousness is dear to him.

For the righteousness of God does not come about by the wrath of man.

For this cause there will be no mercy for sinners when they are judged, and the evil-doers will have no place among the upright, Because the Lord sees the way of the upright, but the end of the sinner is destruction.

Then were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the upright.

His delight is in righteousness and wisdom; the earth is full of the mercy of the Lord.

And he will make your righteousness be seen like the light, and your cause like the shining of the sun.

Happy are they whose decisions are upright, and he who does righteousness at all times.

The work of the upright gives life: the increase of the evil-doer is a cause of sin.

In the road of righteousness is life, but the way of the evil-doer goes to death.

Then will the upright be shining as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him give ear.

For you, Lord, will send a blessing on the upright man; your grace will be round him, and you will be his strength.

The eyes of the Lord are on the upright, and his ears are open to their cry.

The little which the good man has is better than the wealth of evil-doers. For the arms of the evil-doers will be broken: but the Lord is the support of the good.

Put your cares on the Lord, and he will be your support; he will not let the upright man be moved.

For the upright there is a light shining in the dark; he is full of grace and pity.

Wealth which comes from sin is of no profit, but righteousness gives salvation from death. The Lord will not let the upright be in need of food, but he puts far from him the desire of the evil-doers.

Wealth is of no profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness keeps a man safe from death. The righteousness of the good man will make his way straight, but the sin of the evil-doer will be the cause of his fall. The righteousness of the upright will be their salvation, but the false will themselves be taken in their evil designs.

Happy is the upright man! for he will have joy of the fruit of his ways.

He whose ways are true, and whose words are upright; he who gives no thought to the profits of false acts, whose hands have not taken rewards, who will have no part in putting men to death, and whose eyes are shut against evil; He will have a place on high: he will be safely shut in by the high rocks: his bread will be given to him; his waters will be certain.

And those who are wise will be shining like the light of the outstretched sky; and those by whom numbers have been turned to righteousness will be like the stars for ever and ever.

So then, make a statement of your sins to one another, and say prayers for one another so that you may be made well. The prayer of a good man is full of power in its working.

Happy are those who are attacked on account of righteousness: for the kingdom of heaven will be theirs.

They are banded together against the soul of the upright, to give decisions against those who have done no wrong.

The upright man goes to his death, and no one gives a thought to it; and god-fearing men are taken away, and no one is troubled by it; for the upright man is taken away because of evil-doing, and goes into peace.

These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Israel, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they have given the upright man for silver, and the poor for the price of two shoes;

For I have seen how your evil-doing is increased and how strong are your sins, you troublers of the upright, who take rewards and do wrong to the cause of the poor in the public place.

But you are happy if you undergo pain because of righteousness; have no part in their fear and do not be troubled;