Romans 10:3
They are ignorant of God's righteousness. They seek to establish their own righteousness and have not submitted to the righteousness of God.
Romans 1:17
It reveals the righteousness of God from faith-to-faith for it is written: The righteous shall live by faith.
Luke 16:15
Jesus said: You make yourselves look righteous to other people. God knows your hearts. The things considered of great value by people are worth nothing in God's sight.
Leviticus 26:41
I will oppose them and bring them into the lands of their enemies. Then, if they humble their uncircumcised hearts and accept their guilt,
Nehemiah 9:33
You have been in the right in everything that happened to us. You have been true to us, but we have done evil!
Job 33:27
He comes to men and says: 'I sinned, and perverted what was right, but I did not get what I deserved.'
Psalm 71:15-16
All day long my mouth will tell of your righteousness and of your salvation. I do not know the number.
Psalm 71:19
Your righteousness also, God, reaches to the heavens. You have done great things. God, who is like you?
Isaiah 51:6
Lift up your eyes to the heavens. Look at the earth below. The heavens will vanish like smoke and the earth will wear out like a garment. Its inhabitants die like flies (gnats). But my salvation will last forever! My righteousness will never fail.
Isaiah 51:8
The moth will eat them up like a garment. The worm will devour them like wool. But my righteousness will last forever! My salvation will last through all generations.
Isaiah 56:1
Jehovah says: Maintain justice and do what is right, for my salvation is close at hand and my righteousness will soon be revealed.
Isaiah 57:12
I will declare your righteousness and your works, yet they will not profit you.
Isaiah 64:6
All of us have become unclean, and all our righteous acts are like permanently stained rags. All of us wither like leaves, and our sins carry us away like the wind.
Jeremiah 23:5-6
The days are coming, declares Jehovah, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch. He will reign as king and act wisely and do justice and righteousness in the land.
Lamentations 3:22
We have not come to destruction because of Jehovah's loving kindness. His mercies are without end.
Daniel 9:6-9
We have not listened to your servants the prophets who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.
Daniel 9:24
Seventy weeks (seventy sets of seven time periods) are decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish transgression and to make an end of sin, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.
Luke 10:29
Desiring to justify himself, he said to Jesus: Who is my neighbor?
Luke 15:17-21
Finally it dawned on him, my father's hired workers have more than they can eat and I am about to starve!
Luke 18:9-12
He then spoke this illustration to some who trusted in themselves. They were very self-righteous. They looked down on others:
John 16:9-10
First of sin because they do not practice active faith in me.
Romans 3:22
God makes people righteous through their active faith in Jesus Christ. God does this to all who believe in Christ, because there is no difference at all.
Romans 3:26
It showed his righteousness at this present season that he might himself be righteous, and the justifier of he who has faith in Jesus.
Romans 5:19
Through the disobedience of one man many have been made sinners. Yet through the obedience of one man many will be made righteous.
Romans 9:30-32
What shall we say? The nations did not pursue righteousness. Yet they have attained to righteousness, the righteousness that is based on the principle of faith.
2 Corinthians 5:21
He made the one who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf. That way we might become the righteousness of God in him.
Galatians 5:3-4
Yes, I testify again to every man who receives circumcision. He is under obligation to obey the whole Law.
Philippians 3:9
I want to be united with him. I no longer want a righteousness of my own that is gained by obeying the law. The righteousness from God is by faith in Christ.
2 Peter 1:1
Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained a precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God, and of our Savior Jesus Christ:
Revelation 3:17-18
You say, I am rich and have become wealthy and have need of nothing." You do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked.