And Abraham drew near and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?

That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked and that the righteous should be treated as the wicked that are far from thee. Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, neither pleasing the poor, nor favoring the mighty; but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.

I will take my knowledge from afar and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

My righteousness is near; my saving health is gone forth, and my arms shall judge the people; the isles shall wait upon me; and on my arm shall they place their hope. Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath; for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and those that dwell therein shall perish in like manner; but my saving health shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall never perish. read more. Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; do not fear the reproach of men, neither be afraid of their revilings. For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my saving health from age to age.

For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for the stones iron; I will also put peace in the place of thy government, and righteousness in the place of thine oppressors.

O righteous Father, the world has not known thee; but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.

But now, without the law, the righteousness of God has been manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets: the righteousness, that is, of God by the faith of Jesus, the Christ, for all and upon all those that believe in him, for there is no difference;

For they, being ignorant of God's righteousness and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.

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

(For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth),

Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin shall ye have. I AM your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren and judge righteously between every man and his brother and the stranger that is with him.

and thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thy hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thy eyes;

And we shall have justice when we keep ourselves by doing all these commandments before the LORD our God, as he has commanded us.

And we shall have justice when we keep ourselves by doing all these commandments before the LORD our God, as he has commanded us.

Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all the gates of thy cities, which the LORD thy God shall give thee throughout thy tribes, and they shall judge the people with just (and righteous) judgment.

Without fail thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goes down that he may sleep in his own clothing and bless thee, and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the LORD thy God.

If there is a controversy between persons and they come unto judgment and they are judged, then they shall justify the righteous and condemn the wicked.

The strong One, whose work is perfect: for all his ways are right; a God of truth and without iniquity, just and upright is he.

thou shalt hear from heaven and do and judge thy slaves, condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his head, and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.

Blessed is the man that does not walk in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stand in the way of sinners, nor sit in the seat of the scornful.

Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. For the LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

Let wickedness consume the wicked; but establish the just: for the righteous God is he who tries the hearts and kidneys.

For the righteous LORD loves righteousness; his countenance beholds the upright.

There they were in great fear: for God is with the nation of the righteous.

They shall come and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he has done this.

He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his saving health.

I have preached righteousness in the great congregation; behold, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.

Thy throne is composed of righteousness and judgment; mercy and truth go before thy face.

Light is sown for the righteous and gladness for the upright in heart.

The LORD has made known his saving health; he has openly showed his righteousness in the sight of the Gentiles.

And that was counted unto him for righteousness from generation to generation for evermore.

This gate is of the LORD; the righteous shall enter in.

I will praise thee with uprightness of heart when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments.

GIMEL. Deal bountifully with thy slave that I may live and keep thy word.

At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of the judgments of thy righteousness.

I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.

Tzaddi The LORD is righteous in all his ways and merciful in all his works.

Better is a little with righteousness than a great number of fruits with injustice.

Righteous lips are the delight of kings, and they love him that speaks that which is right.

And moreover I saw under the sun that instead of judgment, there was wickedness; and instead of righteousness, that iniquity was there.

and I will restore thy judges as at the first and thy counsellors as at the beginning; afterward thou shalt be called The city of righteousness, the faithful city. Zion shall be ransomed with judgment and her converts with righteousness.

Woe unto those that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope,

who justify the wicked for bribes and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!

who justify the wicked for bribes and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!

For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet the remnant of them shall become converted; when the consumption comes to an end, righteousness shall overflow.

But with righteousness shall he judge the poor and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth; and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the spirit of his lips he shall slay the wicked. And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faith the girdle of his kidneys.

And in mercy shall the throne be established; and he shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging and seeking judgment and hastening righteousness.

But thou, Israel, my slave, Jacob whom I have chosen, art the seed of Abraham my friend. For I have taken thee from the ends of the earth and called thee from the boundaries thereof and said unto thee Thou shalt be my slave; I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away. read more. Do not fear for I am with thee; do not be dismayed, for I am thy God, who strengthens thee; I will help thee always; I will always uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness. Behold, all those that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded; they shall be as nothing; and those that strive with thee shall perish.

The LORD, jealous for his righteousness, will magnify the law and enlarge it.

Release, ye heavens, from above, and the clouds shall pour down righteous ness; let the earth open up, and let salvation and righteousness bear their fruit; let them produce fruit together; I the LORD have created it.

I cause my righteousness to come near; it shall not go away; and my salvation shall not be stayed: and I will place salvation in Zion; and my glory in Israel.

Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD; look unto the rock from which ye are hewn and to the hole of the pit from which ye are dug.

Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath; for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and those that dwell therein shall perish in like manner; but my saving health shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall never perish. Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; do not fear the reproach of men, neither be afraid of their revilings.

Is not rather the fast that I have chosen, to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the ties of oppression, to release into freedom those who are broken, and that ye break every yoke?

Therefore judgment has withdrawn from us, and righteousness has never overtaken us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.

For as the earth brings forth her shoot and as the garden causes her seed to spring forth so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the Gentiles.

For Zion's sake I will not hold my peace; and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest until her righteousness goes forth as brightness and her saving health is lit as a flaming torch.

Righteous art thou, O LORD, even though I dispute with thee: even so, I will speak judgments with thee; Why does the way of the wicked prosper? All those that completely rebel against thee have peace.

But if a man is just and does judgment and righteousness, that he does not eat upon the mountains, neither lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither defile his neighbour's wife, neither come near to the menstruous woman, read more. neither oppress any, but restores to the debtor his pledge, does not commit robbery, gives his bread to the hungry, and covers the naked with a garment, neither lends at interest, neither takes any increase, withdraws his hand from iniquity, executes true judgment between man and man, walks in my statutes, and keeps my rights, to do according to the truth: he is just; he shall surely live, said the Lord GOD.

Ye who turn judgment to wormwood and leave off doing righteousness in the earth,

saying, When the month is over, we will sell the wheat; and after the sabbath day we will open the storehouse of bread, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit;

Can I be pure with false balances and with a bag of deceitful weights?

Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil and canst not look on iniquity: why dost thou look upon those that deal treacherously and hold thy tongue when the wicked devour the man that is more righteous than he?

But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness be born, and in his wings he shall bring saving health; and ye shall go forth and jump like calves of the herd.

And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now, for thus it is expedient for us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him.

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.

Blessed are those who suffer persecution for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of the heavens.

For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of the heavens.

Take heed not to do your alms before men, to be seen of them; otherwise, ye have no reward of your Father who is in the heavens.

Take heed not to do your alms before men, to be seen of them; otherwise, ye have no reward of your Father who is in the heavens.

But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.

For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not, but the publicans and the harlots believed him, and ye, when ye had seen it, repented not afterward that ye might believe him.

And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin and of righteousness and of judgment:

of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more;

For in him is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith, as it is written, The just shall live by faith.

But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasures up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

So we see that they could not enter in because of their unbelief.

The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is no one that does good. The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men to see if there were any that did understand and seek God. read more. They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is no one that does good, no, not one.

as it is written, There is no one righteous, no, not one;

For what does the scripture say? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.

But to him that does not work, but believes in him that justifies the ungodly, the faith is counted as righteousness.

Likewise ye also, my brethren, are become dead to the law in the body of the Christ that ye should belong to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.

For they, being ignorant of God's righteousness and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.

But of him ye are reborn in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

I do not reject the grace of God, for if righteousness comes by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.

Whosoever commits sin transgresses also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. And ye know that he appeared to take away our sins, and there is no sin in him. read more. Whosoever abides in him does not sin: whosoever sins has not seen him or known him. Little children, let no one deceive you; he that does righteousness is righteous, even as he also is righteous.

And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and bright: for the fine linen is the righteousness of the saints.