1 John 3:7
Little children, don't let anyone deceive you. The person who practices righteousness is righteous, just as the Messiah is righteous.
1 John 2:29
Since you know that he is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been fathered by God.
Romans 2:13
For it is not merely those who hear the Law who are righteous in God's sight. No, it is those who follow the Law, who will be justified.
1 John 2:1
My little children, I'm writing these things to you so that you might not sin. Yet if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father Jesus, the Messiah, one who is righteous.
1 John 2:26
I have written to you about those who are trying to deceive you.
1 Peter 1:15-16
Instead, be holy in every aspect of your life, just as the one who called you is holy.
Psalm 45:7
You love justice and hate wickedness. That is why God, even your God, has anointed you rather than your companions with the oil of gladness.
Psalm 72:1-7
God, endow the king with ability to render your justice, and the king's son to render your right decisions.
Psalm 106:3
How happy are those who enforce justice, who live righteously all the time.
Ezekiel 18:5-9
"If a person is righteous, and practices what's lawful and right,
Matthew 5:20
because I tell you, unless your righteousness greatly exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom from heaven!"
Luke 1:75
and be holy and righteous before him all of our days.
Acts 10:35
Indeed, whoever fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him in any nation.
Romans 2:6-8
For he will repay everyone according to what that person has done:
Romans 6:16-18
Don't you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?
1 Corinthians 6:9
You know that wicked people will not inherit the kingdom of God, don't you? Stop deceiving yourselves! Sexually immoral people, idolaters, adulterers, male prostitutes, homosexuals,
Galatians 6:7-8
Stop being deceived; God is not to be ridiculed. A person harvests whatever he plants:
Ephesians 5:6
Do not let anyone deceive you with meaningless words, for it is because of these things that God becomes angry with those who disobey.
Ephesians 5:9
for the fruit that the light produces consists of every form of goodness, righteousness, and truth.
Philippians 1:11
having been filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus the Messiah so that God will be glorified and praised.
Hebrews 1:8
But about the Son he says, "Your throne, O God, is forever and ever, and the scepter of your kingdom is a righteous scepter.
Hebrews 7:2
Abraham gave Melchizedek a tenth of everything. In the first place, his name means "king of righteousness," and then he is also king of Salem, that is, "king of peace."
James 1:22
Keep on being obedient to the word, and not merely being hearers who deceive themselves.
James 2:19
You believe that there is one God. That's fine! Even the demons believe that and tremble with fear.
1 Peter 2:24
"He himself bore our sins" in his body on the tree, so that we might die to those sins and live righteously. "By his wounds you have been healed."
1 John 3:3
And everyone who has this hope based on him keeps himself pure, just as the Messiah is pure.
James 5:1-3
Now listen, you rich people! Cry and moan over the miseries that are overtaking you.