And Abraham came near, and said, Will you let destruction come on the upright with the sinners?

Let such a thing be far from you, to put the upright to death with the sinner: will not the judge of all the earth do right?

Do no wrong in your judging: do not give thought to the position of the poor, or honour to the position of the great; but be a judge to your neighbour in righteousness.

I will get my knowledge from far, and I will give righteousness to my Maker.

Suddenly will my righteousness come near, and my salvation will be shining out like the light; the sea-lands will be waiting for me, and they will put their hope in my strong arm. Let your eyes be lifted up to the heavens, and turned to the earth which is under them: for the heavens will go in flight like smoke, and the earth will become old like a coat, and its people will come to destruction like insects: but my salvation will be for ever, and my righteousness will not come to an end. read more. Give ear to me, you who have knowledge of righteousness, in whose heart is my law; have no fear of the evil words of men, and give no thought to their curses. For like a coat they will be food for the insect, the worm will make a meal of them like wool: but my righteousness will be for ever, and my salvation to all generations.

In place of brass, I will give gold, and for iron silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron: and I will make Peace your judge, and Righteousness your overseer.

Father of righteousness, I have knowledge of you, though the world has not; and to these it is clear that you sent me;

But now without the law there is a revelation of the righteousness of God, to which witness is given by the law and the prophets; That is, the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ, to all those who have faith; and one man is not different from another,

Because, not having knowledge of God's righteousness, and desiring to give effect to their righteousness, they have not put themselves under the righteousness of God.

For the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

(Because the fruit of the light is in all righteousness and in everything which is good and true),

Have true scales, true weights and measures for all things: I am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt;

And at that time I gave orders to your judges, saying, Let all questions between your brothers come before you for hearing, and give decisions uprightly between a man and his brother or one from another nation who is with him.

Let them be fixed as a sign on your hand, and marked on your brow;

And it will be our righteousness if we take care to keep all this order before the Lord our God as he has given it to us.

And it will be our righteousness if we take care to keep all this order before the Lord our God as he has given it to us.

You are to make judges and overseers in all your towns which the Lord your God gives you, for every tribe: and they are to be upright men, judging the people in righteousness.

But be certain to give it back to him when the sun goes down, so that he may have his clothing for sleeping in, and will give you his blessing: and this will be put to your account as righteousness before the Lord your God.

If there is an argument between men and they go to law with one another, let the judges give their decision for the upright, and against the wrongdoer.

He is the Rock, complete is his work; for all his ways are righteousness: a God without evil who keeps faith, true and upright is he.

Then let your ear be open in heaven, and be the judge of your servants, giving your decision against the wrongdoer, so that punishment for his sins may come on his head; and, by your decision, keeping from evil him who has done no wrong.

Happy is the man who does not go in the company of sinners, or take his place in the way of evil-doers, or in the seat of those who do not give honour to the Lord.

For this cause there will be no mercy for sinners when they are judged, and the evil-doers will have no place among the upright, Because the Lord sees the way of the upright, but the end of the sinner is destruction.

O let the evil of the evil-doer come to an end, but give strength to the upright: for men's minds and hearts are tested by the God of righteousness.

For the Lord is upright; he is a lover of righteousness: the upright will see his face.

Then were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the upright.

They will come and make his righteousness clear to a people of the future because he has done this.

I have given news of righteousness in the great meeting; O Lord, you have knowledge that I have not kept back my words.

The seat of your kingdom is resting on righteousness and right judging: mercy and good faith come before your face.

Light is shining on the lovers of righteousness, and for the upright in heart there is joy.

And all the generations coming after him kept the memory of his righteousness for ever.

This is the door of the Lord's house; the workers of righteousness will go in through it.

I will give you praise with an upright heart in learning your right decisions.

Give me, your servant, the reward of life, so that I may keep your word;

In the middle of the night I will get up to give you praise, because of all your right decisions.

I have seen, O Lord, that your decisions are right, and that in unchanging faith you have sent trouble on me.

Better is a little with righteousness, than great wealth with wrongdoing.

Lips of righteousness are the delight of kings; and he who says what is upright is dear to him.

And again, I saw under the sun, in the place of the judges, that evil was there; and in the place of righteousness, that evil was there.

And I will give you judges again as at the first, and wise guides as in the past; then you will be named, The Town of Righteousness, the true town. Upright acts will be the price of Zion's forgiveness, and by righteousness will men be living there.

Cursed are those who make use of ox-cords for pulling the evil thing, and the bands of a young ox for their sin!

Who for a reward give support to the cause of the sinner, and who take away the righteousness of the upright from him.

Who for a reward give support to the cause of the sinner, and who take away the righteousness of the upright from him.

For though your people, O Israel, are as the sand of the sea, only a small number will come back: for the destruction is fixed, overflowing in righteousness.

But he will do right in the cause of the poor, and give wise decisions for those in the land who are in need; and the rod of his mouth will come down on the cruel, and with the breath of his lips he will put an end to the evil-doer. And righteousness will be the cord of his robe, and good faith the band round his breast.

Then a king's seat will be based on mercy, and one will be seated on it in the tent of David for ever; judging uprightly, and quick to do righteousness.

But as for you, Israel, my servant, and you, Jacob, whom I have taken for myself, the seed of Abraham my friend: You whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and sent for from its farthest parts, saying to you, You are my servant, whom I have taken for myself, and whom I have not given up: read more. Have no fear, for I am with you; do not be looking about in trouble, for I am your God; I will give you strength, yes, I will be your helper; yes, my true right hand will be your support. Truly, all those who are angry with you will be made low and put to shame: those desiring to do you wrong will come to nothing and never again be seen.

It was the Lord's pleasure, because of his righteousness, to make the teaching great and give it honour.

Let righteousness come down, O heavens, from on high, and let the sky send it down like rain: let the earth be open to give the fruit of salvation, causing righteousness to come up with it; I the Lord have made it come about.

My righteousness is near, it is not far off; salvation will come quickly; and I will make Zion free, and give Israel my glory.

Give ear to me, you who are searching for righteousness, who are looking for the Lord: see the rock from which you were cut out, and the hole out of which you were taken.

Let your eyes be lifted up to the heavens, and turned to the earth which is under them: for the heavens will go in flight like smoke, and the earth will become old like a coat, and its people will come to destruction like insects: but my salvation will be for ever, and my righteousness will not come to an end. Give ear to me, you who have knowledge of righteousness, in whose heart is my law; have no fear of the evil words of men, and give no thought to their curses.

Is not this the holy day for which I have given orders: to let loose those who have wrongly been made prisoners, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the crushed go free, and every yoke be broken?

For this cause our right is far from us, and righteousness does not overtake us: we are looking for light, but there is only the dark; for the shining of the sun, but our way is in the night.

For as the earth puts out buds, and as the garden gives growth to the seeds which are planted in it, so the Lord will make righteousness and praise to be flowering before all the nations.

Because of Zion I will not keep quiet, and because of Jerusalem I will take no rest, till her righteousness goes out like the shining of the sun, and her salvation like a burning light.

You are in the right, O Lord, when I put my cause before you: still let me take up with you the question of your decisions: why does the evil-doer do well? why are the workers of deceit living in comfort?

But if a man is upright, living rightly and doing righteousness, And has not taken flesh with the blood for food, or given worship to the images of the children of Israel; if he has not had connection with his neighbour's wife, or come near to a woman at the time when she is unclean; read more. And has done no wrong to any, but has given back to the debtor what is his, and has taken no one's goods by force, and has given food to him who was in need of it, and clothing to him who was without it; And has not given his money out at interest or taken great profits, and, turning his hand from evil-doing, has kept faith between man and man, And has been guided by my rules and has kept my laws and done them: he is upright, life will certainly be his, says the Lord.

You who make the work of judging a bitter thing, crushing down righteousness to the earth;

Saying, When will the new moon be gone, so that we may do trade in grain? and the Sabbath, so that we may put out in the market the produce of our fields? making the measure small and the price great, and trading falsely with scales of deceit;

Is it possible for me to let wrong scales and the bag of false weights go without punishment?

Before your holy eyes sin may not be seen, and you are unable to put up with wrong; why, then, are your eyes on the false? why do you say nothing when the evil-doer puts an end to one who is more upright than himself?

But to you who give worship to my name, the sun of righteousness will come up with new life in its wings; and you will go out, playing like young oxen full of food.

But Jesus made answer, saying to him, Let it be so now: because so it is right for us to make righteousness complete. Then he gave him baptism.

Happy are those whose heart's desire is for righteousness: for they will have their desire.

Happy are those who are attacked on account of righteousness: for the kingdom of heaven will be theirs.

For I say to you, If your righteousness is not greater than the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never go into the kingdom of heaven.

Take care not to do your good works before men, to be seen by them; or you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.

Take care not to do your good works before men, to be seen by them; or you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.

But let your first care be for his kingdom and his righteousness; and all these other things will be given to you in addition.

For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you had no faith in him, but the tax-farmers and the loose women had faith in him: and you, when you saw it, did not even have regret for your sins, so as to have faith in him.

And he, when he comes, will make the world conscious of sin, and of righteousness, and of being judged:

Of righteousness, because I go to the Father and you will see me no more;

For in it there is the revelation of the righteousness of God from faith to faith: as it is said in the holy Writings, The man who does righteousness will be living by his faith.

But by your hard and unchanged heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of the revelation of God's judging in righteousness;

So we see that they were not able to go in because they had no belief.

The foolish man has said in his heart, God will not do anything. They are unclean, they have done evil works; there is not one who does good. The Lord was looking down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who had wisdom, searching after God. read more. They have all gone out of the way together; they are unclean, there is not one who does good, no, not one.

As it is said in the holy Writings, There is not one who does righteousness;

But what does it say in the holy Writings? And Abraham had faith in God, and it was put to his account as righteousness.

But to him who without working has faith in him who gives righteousness to the evil-doer, his faith is put to his account as righteousness.

In the same way, my brothers, you were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, even to him who came again from the dead, so that we might give fruit to God.

Because, not having knowledge of God's righteousness, and desiring to give effect to their righteousness, they have not put themselves under the righteousness of God.

But God has given you a place in Christ Jesus, through whom God has given us wisdom and righteousness and salvation, and made us holy:

I do not make the grace of God of no effect: because if righteousness is through the law, then Christ was put to death for nothing.

Everyone who is a sinner goes against the law, for sin is going against the law. And you have knowledge that he came to take away sin: and in him there is no sin. read more. Anyone who is in him does no sin; anyone who is a sinner has not seen him and has no knowledge of him. My little children, let no man take you out of the true way: he who does righteousness is upright, even as he is upright;

And to her it was given to be clothed in delicate linen, clean and shining: for the clean linen is the righteousness of the saints.