Romans 10:3
For they are ignorant of the righteousness that comes from God while they try to establish their own, and they have not submitted to God's means to attain righteousness.
Romans 1:17
For in the gospel God's righteousness is being revealed from faith to faith, as it is written, "The righteous will live by faith."
Luke 16:15
So he told them, "You try to justify yourselves in front of people, but God knows your hearts, because what is highly valued by people is detestable to God.
Leviticus 26:41
causing me to oppose them and take them to the land of their enemies so that the uncircumcised foreskin of their hearts can be humbled and so that they accept the punishment of their iniquity
Nehemiah 9:33
You are righteous in all that is happening to us, because you have acted faithfully while we have practiced evil.
Job 33:27
"He'll sing to mankind with these words: "I've sinned. I have twisted what is right. Yet he has not repaid me like I deserve.
Psalm 71:15-16
I will declare your righteousness and your salvation every day, though I do not fully understand what the outcome will be.
Psalm 71:19
Your many righteous deeds, God, are great,
Isaiah 51:6
"Lift up your eyes, you heavens and look to the earth beneath; and see who created these. Its inhabitants will die just like this; but my salvation will be forever, and my deliverance will never fail.
Isaiah 51:8
For moths will eat them up just like a garment, and worms will devour them like wool; but my deliverance will last forever, and my salvation to all generations.
Isaiah 56:1
For this is what the LORD says: "Maintain justice, and do what is right, for soon my salvation will come, and soon my deliverance will be revealed.
Isaiah 57:12
"I will denounce your righteousness and your works, for your collections of idols will not benefit you.
Isaiah 64:6
All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like a filthy rag; we all shrivel up like a leaf, and like the wind, our iniquities sweep us away.
Jeremiah 23:5-6
"The time is coming," declares the LORD, "when I'll raise up a righteous branch for David. He will be a king who rules wisely, and he will administer justice and righteousness in the land.
Lamentations 3:22
Because of the LORD's gracious love we are not consumed, since his compassions never end.
Daniel 9:6-9
Furthermore, we haven't listened to your servants, the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, to our officials, to our ancestors, and to all of the people of the land.
Daniel 9:24
Seventy weeks have been decreed concerning your people and your holy city: to restrain transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for lawlessness, to establish everlasting righteousness, to conclude vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.
Luke 10:29
But the man wanted to justify himself, so he asked Jesus, "And who is my neighbor?"
Luke 15:17-21
"Then he came to his senses and said, "How many of my father's hired men have more food than they can eat, and here I am starving to death!
Luke 18:9-12
Jesus also told this parable to some people who trusted in themselves, thinking they were righteous, but who looked down on everyone else:
John 16:9-10
of sin, because they don't believe in me;
Romans 3:22
God's righteousness through the faithfulness of Jesus the Messiah for all who believe. For there is no distinction among people,
Romans 3:26
He wanted to demonstrate at the present time that he himself is righteous and that he justifies anyone who has the faithfulness of Jesus.
Romans 5:19
For just as through one man's disobedience many people were made sinners, so also through one man's obedience many people will be made righteous.
Romans 9:30-32
What can we say, then? Gentiles, who were not pursuing righteousness, have attained righteousness, a righteousness that comes through faith.
2 Corinthians 5:21
God made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that God's righteousness would be produced in us.
Galatians 5:3-4
Again, I insist that everyone who allows himself to be circumcised is obligated to obey the entire Law.
Philippians 3:9
and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the Law, but one that comes through the faithfulness of the Messiah, the righteousness that comes from God and that depends on faith.
2 Peter 1:1
From: Simeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus, the Messiah. To: Those who have received faith that is as valuable as ours through the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus the Messiah.
Revelation 3:17-18
You say, "I am rich. I have become wealthy. I don't need anything." Yet you don't realize that you are miserable, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked.