Romans 10:3
For ignoring the righteousness that comes from God, and seeking instead to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit to God's righteousness.
Romans 1:17
For the righteousness of God is revealed in the gospel from faith to faith, just as it is written, "The righteous by faith will live."
Luke 16:15
But Jesus said to them, "You are the ones who justify yourselves in men's eyes, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly prized among men is utterly detestable in God's sight.
Leviticus 26:41
(and I myself will walk in hostility against them and bring them into the land of their enemies), and then their uncircumcised hearts become humbled and they make up for their iniquity,
Nehemiah 9:33
You are righteous with regard to all that has happened to us, for you have acted faithfully. It is we who have been in the wrong!
Job 33:27
That person sings to others, saying: 'I have sinned and falsified what is right, but I was not punished according to what I deserved.
Psalm 71:15-16
I will tell about your justice, and all day long proclaim your salvation, though I cannot fathom its full extent.
Psalm 71:19
Your justice, O God, extends to the skies above; you have done great things. O God, who can compare to you?
Isaiah 51:6
Look up at the sky! Look at the earth below! For the sky will dissipate like smoke, and the earth will wear out like clothes; its residents will die like gnats. But the deliverance I give is permanent; the vindication I provide will not disappear.
Isaiah 51:8
For a moth will eat away at them like clothes; a clothes moth will devour them like wool. But the vindication I provide will be permanent; the deliverance I give will last."
Isaiah 56:1
This is what the Lord says, "Promote justice! Do what is right! For I am ready to deliver you; I am ready to vindicate you openly.
Isaiah 57:12
I will denounce your so-called righteousness and your deeds, but they will not help you.
Isaiah 64:6
We are all like one who is unclean, all our so-called righteous acts are like a menstrual rag in your sight. We all wither like a leaf; our sins carry us away like the wind.
Jeremiah 23:5-6
"I, the Lord, promise that a new time will certainly come when I will raise up for them a righteous branch, a descendant of David. He will rule over them with wisdom and understanding and will do what is just and right in the land.
Lamentations 3:22
(Khet) The Lord's loyal kindness never ceases; his compassions never end.
Daniel 9:6-9
We have not paid attention to your servants the prophets, who spoke by your authority to our kings, our leaders, and our ancestors, and to all the inhabitants of the land as well.
Daniel 9:24
"Seventy weeks have been determined concerning your people and your holy city to put an end to rebellion, to bring sin to completion, to atone for iniquity, to bring in perpetual righteousness, to seal up the prophetic vision, and to anoint a most holy place.
Luke 10:29
But the expert, wanting to justify himself, said to Jesus, "And who is my neighbor?"
Luke 15:17-21
But when he came to his senses he said, 'How many of my father's hired workers have food enough to spare, but here I am dying from hunger!
Luke 18:9-12
Jesus also told this parable to some who were confident that they were righteous and looked down on everyone else.
John 16:9-10
concerning sin, because they do not believe in me;
Romans 3:22
namely, the righteousness of God through the faithfulness of Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction,
Romans 3:26
This was also to demonstrate his righteousness in the present time, so that he would be just and the justifier of the one who lives because of Jesus' faithfulness.
Romans 5:19
For just as through the disobedience of the one man many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of one man many will be made righteous.
Romans 9:30-32
What shall we say then? -- that the Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness obtained it, that is, a righteousness that is by faith,
2 Corinthians 5:21
God made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that in him we would become the righteousness of God.
Galatians 5:3-4
And I testify again to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law.
Philippians 3:9
and be found in him, not because I have my own righteousness derived from the law, but because I have the righteousness that comes by way of Christ's faithfulness -- a righteousness from God that is in fact based on Christ's faithfulness.
2 Peter 1:1
From Simeon Peter, a slave and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who through the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ, have been granted a faith just as precious as ours.
Revelation 3:17-18
Because you say, "I am rich and have acquired great wealth, and need nothing," but do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked,