36 Bible Verses about Righteousness

whoever says, "I am always in union with him" must live just as he lived.

Nor is there any comparison between the gift and the effects of that one man's sin. That sentence arose from the act of one man, and was for condemnation; but God's gift arose out of many offenses and results in acquittal. For if that one man's offense made death reign through that one man, all the more will those who receive God's overflowing mercy and his gift of uprightness live and reign through the one individual Jesus Christ.

But we, by the Spirit, through faith wait for the uprightness we hope for.

But you are his children, through your union with Christ Jesus, whom God has made our wisdom??ur uprightness and consecration and redemption,

If you know that he is upright, you may be sure that everyone who acts uprightly is his child.

So confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you may be cured. An upright man can do a great deal by prayer when he tries.

Then the upright will shine out like the sun, in their Father's kingdom. Let him who has ears listen!

They were both upright in the sight of God, blamelessly observing all the Lord's commands and requirements.

Therefore I strive always to have a clear conscience before God and men.

and she had been a widow until she was now eighty-four. She never left the Temple, but worshipped night and day with fasting and prayer.

Stand your ground, then, with the belt of truth around your waist, and put on uprightness as your coat of mail,

But you, man of God, must fly from these things. Strive for uprightness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, gentleness.

But as he talked of uprightness, self-control, and the coming judgment, Felix became alarmed, and said, "You may go for the present. I will find time later to send for you."

So as we have been made upright by faith, let us live in peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

So the Law has been our attendant on our way to Christ, so that we might be made upright through faith.

Some of you used to be like that; but you have washed it all away, you have been consecrated, you have become upright, by the power of our Lord Jesus Christ and through the Spirit of our God.

So as one offense meant condemnation for all men, just so one righteous act means acquittal and life for all men.

Then I saw heaven thrown open and there appeared a white horse. His rider was called Faithful and True, and he judges and wages war in uprightness.

since he has fixed a day on which he will justly judge the world through a man whom he has appointed, and whom he has guaranteed to all men by raising him from the dead."

Then I saw heaven thrown open and there appeared a white horse. His rider was called Faithful and True, and he judges and wages war in uprightness.

For the eyes of the Lord are upon upright men, And his ears are open to their entreaty, But the Lord's face is set against men that do wrong."

They were both upright in the sight of God, blamelessly observing all the Lord's commands and requirements.

Moses said that anyone who carried out the uprightness the Law prescribed would find life through it.

He made him who knew nothing of sin to be sin, for our sake, so that through union with him we might become God's uprightness.

as the Scripture says, "He scatters his gifts to the poor; His uprightness will never be forgotten."

For the eyes of the Lord are upon upright men, And his ears are open to their entreaty, But the Lord's face is set against men that do wrong."

he saved us, not for any upright actions we had performed, but from his own mercy, through the bath of regeneration and renewal by the holy Spirit,

For it is by his mercy that you have been saved through faith. It is not by your own action, it is the gift of God. It has not been earned, so that no one can boast of it.

He saved us and called us to a consecrated life, not for anything we had done, but of his own accord and out of the mercy which he bestowed upon us ages ago through Christ Jesus,

it is that on your heads may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth from the blood of Abel the upright to the blood of Zechariah, Barachiah's son, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar!

We must not be like Cain who was a child of the evil one, and butchered his brother. And why did he butcher him? Because his own actions were wicked and his brother's upright.

I am the vine, you are the branches. Anyone who remains united to me, with me united to him, will be very fruitful, for you cannot do anything apart from me.

Discipline is never pleasant at the time; it is painful; but to those who are trained by it, it afterward yields the peace of character.

But now that you have been freed from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you get is consecration, and the final result is eternal life.

He who supplies the sower with seed and so with bread to eat will supply you with seed, and multiply it and enlarge the harvest of your uprightness.

with your lives filled with the fruits which uprightness produces through Jesus Christ, to the honor and praise of God.

But of the Son he says, "God is your throne forever and ever! And a righteous scepter is the scepter of his kingdom!

For the promise made to Abraham and his descendants that the world should belong to him did not come to him or his descendants through the Law, but through the uprightness that resulted from his faith.

Does this happiness apply to those who are circumcised, or to those who are uncircumcised as well? What we say is, Abraham's faith was credited to him as uprightness.

and he was afterward given the mark of circumcision as the stamp of God's acknowledgment of the uprightness based on faith that was his before he was circumcised, so that he should be the forefather of all who, without being circumcised, have faith and so are credited with uprightness,

He did not incredulously question God's promise, but his faith gave him power and he praised God

As the Scripture says, "There is not a single man who is upright,

but self-seeking people who are disloyal to the truth and responsive only to what is wrong will experience anger and fury,

so that all who have refused to believe the truth but have preferred disobedience may be condemned.

For if that one man's offense made death reign through that one man, all the more will those who receive God's overflowing mercy and his gift of uprightness live and reign through the one individual Jesus Christ. So as one offense meant condemnation for all men, just so one righteous act means acquittal and life for all men. For just as that one man's disobedience made the mass of mankind sinners, so this one's obedience will make the mass of them upright.

And it is through his doing of God's will that we have been once for all purified from sin through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ in sacrifice. Every other priest stands officiating day after day, offering over and over again the same sacrifices, though they were powerless ever to remove people's sins. But Christ has offered for all time one sacrifice for sin, and has taken his seat at God's right hand, read more.
from that time waiting for his enemies to be made his footstool. For by that one sacrifice he has forever qualified those who are purified from sin to approach God.

with your lives filled with the fruits which uprightness produces through Jesus Christ, to the honor and praise of God.

for light leads to perfect goodness, uprightness, and truth;

Therefore, I tell you, do not worry about life, wondering what you will have to eat or drink, or about your body, wondering what you will have to wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body than clothes? Look at the wild birds. They do not sow or reap, or store their food in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more account than they? But which of you with all his worry can add a single hour to his life? read more.
Why should you worry about clothing? See how the wild flowers grow. They do not toil or spin, and yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his splendor was never dressed like one of them. But if God so beautifully dresses the wild grass, which is alive today and is thrown into the furnace tomorrow, will he not much more surely clothe you, you who have so little faith? So do not worry and say, 'What shall we have to eat?' or 'What shall we have to drink?' or 'What shall we have to wear?' For these are all things the heathen are in pursuit of, and your heavenly Father knows well that you need all this. But you must make his kingdom, and uprightness before him, your greatest care, and you will have all these other things besides.

But you, man of God, must fly from these things. Strive for uprightness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, gentleness.

Fly from the cravings of youth, and go in pursuit of uprightness, faith, love, and peace, in company with those who call upon the Lord with pure hearts.

I refuse to nullify the mercy of God. For if uprightness could be secured through law, then Christ died for nothing!

Is the Law then contrary to God's promises? By no means. For if a law had been given that could have brought life, uprightness would really have come through law.

And the passers-by jeered at him, shaking their heads and saying, "You who would tear down the sanctuary, and build one in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross!" And the high priests, too, made sport of him with the scribes and elders, and said, read more.
"He saved others, but he cannot save himself! He is King of Israel; let him come down from the cross now, and we will believe in him. He trusts in God; let God deliver him if he cares for him, for he said he was God's son." Even the robbers who were crucified with him abused him in the same way.

For no human being can be made upright in the sight of God by observing the Law. All that the Law can do is to make man conscious of sin.

while Israel, straining after a law that should bring uprightness, did not come up to it. And why? Because they did not seek it through faith, but through doing certain things. They stumbled over that stone that makes people stumble,

Do you not know that when you submit to being someone's slaves, and obeying him, you are the slaves of the one whom you obey, whether your slavery is to sin, and leads to death, or is to obedience, and leads to uprightness?

and so you have been freed from sin, and made slaves of uprightness.

He carried the burden of our sins in his own body on the cross, in order that we might die to sin and live for uprightness. By his wounds you have been healed.

training us to renounce godless ways and worldly passions, and live serious, upright, and godly lives in this world,

and he was afterward given the mark of circumcision as the stamp of God's acknowledgment of the uprightness based on faith that was his before he was circumcised, so that he should be the forefather of all who, without being circumcised, have faith and so are credited with uprightness,

That was why it was credited to him as uprightness.

You have loved right and hated wrong! That is why God, your God, has anointed you with exhilarating oil beyond all your comrades."

Dear children, let no one mislead you; whoever acts uprightly is upright, just as he is upright.

If you know that he is upright, you may be sure that everyone who acts uprightly is his child.

But when the king came in to view the guests, he saw among them a man who did not have on wedding clothes. And he said to him, 'My friend, how did you happen to come here without wedding clothes?' But he had nothing to say. Then the king said to his attendants, 'Bind him hand and foot and throw him out into the darkness, there to weep and grind his teeth.' read more.
For many are invited but few chosen."

To some who were confident of their own uprightness, and thought nothing of others, he used this illustration:

For in their ignorance of God's way of uprightness and in the attempt to set up one of their own, they refused to conform to God's way of uprightness.

So confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you may be cured. An upright man can do a great deal by prayer when he tries.

Then will not God provide protection for his chosen people, who cry out to him day and night?

Return to your sober sense as you ought, and stop sinning, for some of you are utterly ignorant about God. To your shame I say so.

Return to your sober sense as you ought, and stop sinning, for some of you are utterly ignorant about God. To your shame I say so.

But you are his children, through your union with Christ Jesus, whom God has made our wisdom??ur uprightness and consecration and redemption,

and ran through the middle of the principal street of the city. On both sides of the river grew the tree of life. It bore twelve kinds of fruit, yielding a different kind each month, and its leaves were a cure for the heathen.

Do not get into close and incongruous relations with unbelievers. What partnership can uprightness have with iniquity, or what can light have to do with darkness?

the truth of my teaching, and the power of God; with the weapons of uprightness for the right hand and the left,

But what the Spirit produces is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. There is no law against such things!

as to my zeal, I was a persecutor of the church; and by the Law's standard of uprightness, no fault could be found with me. But for the sake of Christ I have come to count my former gains as loss. Why, I count everything as loss compared with the supreme advantage of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have lost everything, and think it rubbish, in order to gain Christ

Stand your ground, then, with the belt of truth around your waist, and put on uprightness as your coat of mail,

and put on the new self which has been created in likeness to God, with all the uprightness and holiness that belong to the truth.

All Scripture is divinely inspired, and useful in teaching, in reproof, in correcting faults, and in training in uprightness,

And what was sown in good ground means the man who listens to the message and understands it, and yields one a hundred, and another sixty, and another thirty-fold."

Now the crown of uprightness awaits me, which the Lord, the upright judge, will award me on that Day, and not only me but also all who have loved and hoped for his appearing.

But we, by the Spirit, through faith wait for the uprightness we hope for.

who by their faith conquered kingdoms, attained uprightness, received new promises, shut the mouths of lions,

for light leads to perfect goodness, uprightness, and truth;

Discipline is never pleasant at the time; it is painful; but to those who are trained by it, it afterward yields the peace of character.

"Blessed are those who have endured persecution for their uprightness, for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to them!

Even if you should suffer for uprightness, you are blessed. But do not be afraid of them, nor be troubled,

Faith made Abel's sacrifice greater in the sight of God than Cain's; through faith he gained God's approval as an upright man, for God himself approved his offering, and through faith even when he was dead he still spoke.

And some fell on good soil, and yielded some a hundred, some sixty, and some thirty-fold.

But Jesus answered, "Let it be so this time, for it is right for us to do everything that God requires." Then John consented.

The Kingdom of God is not a matter of what we eat or drink, but of uprightness, peace, and happiness through the possession of the holy Spirit.

and if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others, when he brought the flood upon the godless world;

"Blessed are those who are hungry and thirsty for uprightness, for they will be satisfied!

Then what do we conclude? That heathen who were not striving for uprightness attained it, that is, an uprightness which was produced by faith;

For when you were slaves of sin, you were free as far as uprightness was concerned.

This is how the children of God and those of the devil can be distinguished: No one who does not act uprightly or who does not love his brother is a child of God.

I use these familiar human terms because of the limitations of your nature. For just as you before gave up the parts of your bodies in slavery to vice and greater and greater license, you must now give them up in slavery to uprightness, which leads to consecration.

For Christ marks the termination of law, so that now anyone who has faith may attain uprightness.

"Blessed are those who are hungry and thirsty for uprightness, for they will be satisfied!

and you must not offer the parts of your bodies to sin as the instruments of wrong, but offer yourselves to God as men brought back from death to life, and offer the parts of your bodies to him as instruments of uprightness.