Reference: Righteousness
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Rectitude, justice, holiness; an essential perfection of God's character, Job 36:3; Isa 51:5-8; Joh 17:25; and of his administration, Ge 18:25; Ro 3:21-22; 10:3. It is the wonder of grace that as the righteous guardian of the law, he can acquit the unrighteous. "The righteousness of Christ" includes his spotless holiness, his perfect obedience the law demands; and "the righteousness of faith" is that imputed to the sinner who believes in Christ. With reference to personal character, righteousness is used both for uprightness between man and man, and for true religion, Ge 18:23; Le 19:15; Isa 60:17; Ro 14:17; Eph 5:9.
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And Abraham will draw near, and will say, Wilt thou also destroy the just with the wicked
Far be it with respect to thee doing as this word to kill the just with the wicked; and for the just to be as the wicked, far be it with respect to thee: shall not the judge of all the earth do judgment?
Ye shall not do evil in judgment; thou shalt not take up the face of the poor; thou shalt not reverence the face of the great: in justice shalt thou judge thy neighbor.
I will lift up my knowledge from far off, and to him making me, I will give justice.
My justice is near; my salvation went forth, and mine arms shall judge the peoples; the islands shall wait for me, and to mine arm shall they hope. Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look to the earth from beneath: for the heavens as smoke vanished away, and the earth as a garment shall decay, and they inhabiting as thus shall die; and my salvation shall be forever, and my justice shall not be broken. read more. Hear to me, ye knowing justice, the people my law in their heart; ye shall not fear the reproach of men; and from their reviling ye shall not be dismayed. For the moth shall eat them as a garment, and as wool shall the moth eat them: and my justice shall be forever, and my salvation to generation of generations.
Instead of brass I will bring gold, and instead of iron I will bring silver, and instead of woods, brass, and instead of stones, iron: and I set thine overseers peace, and thy rulers justice.
O just Father, the world knew thee not: but I knew thee, and these knew that thou didst send me.
But now without law the justice of God has been made apparent, being testified by the law and by the prophets; And the justice of God by faith of Jesus Christ to all and upon all believing: for there is no distinction:
For not knowing the justice of God, and seeking to establish their own justice, they have not been subjected to the justice of God.
For the kingdom of God is not food and drink; but justice, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
(For the fruit of the Spirit in all goodness and justice and truth.;)
Easton
See Justification.
Hastings
RIGHTEOUSNESS
I. In OT.
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Just balances, just stones, a just ephah, and a just hin shall be to you: I Jehovah your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
And I shall command your judges in that time, saying, Hear between your brethren, and judge justice between a man and between his brother and between his stranger.
And bind them for a sign upon thy hand, and they shall be for bands between thine eyes.
And it shall be justice to us when we shall watch to do all these commands before Jehovah our God as he commanded us.
And it shall be justice to us when we shall watch to do all these commands before Jehovah our God as he commanded us.
Judges and scribes shall thou give to thee in all thy gates which Jehovah thy God gave to thee according to thy tribes: and they judged the people just judgment
Turning back, thou shalt turn back to him the pledge as the sun went down; he lay down in his garment and blessed thee; and to thee shall be justice before Jehovah thy God.
If there shall be a controversy between men and they drew near to judgment, and they judged them; and they justified the just and condemned the unjust.
The Rock, his work complete: For all his ways judgment: A God of faithfulness and not of iniquity Just and right is he.
And thou wilt hear in the heavens, and do, and judge thy servants to condemn the unjust, to give his way upon his head, and to acquit the just, to give to him according to his justice.
Happy the man who went not in the counsel of the unjust, and he stood not in the way of the sinful, and sat not in the seat of those scoffing.
For this, the unjust shall not rise up in judgment, and the sinful in the assembly of the just For Jehovah shall know the way of the just: but the way of the unjust shall perish.
Now shall the evil of the unjust come to an end; and thou wilt direct the just one: for the just God tried hearts and reins.
For Jehovah the just loved justice; his face will behold the upright
There they feared a fear: for God is in the generation of the just one.
He shall receive a praise from Jehovah, and justice from God saving him.
I announced good news, justice in the great convocation: behold, my lips I will not shut up, O Jehovah, thou knewest
Justice and judgment the preparing of thy throne: mercy and truth shall anticipate thy face.
Light was sown for the just one, and gladness for the upright of heart
Jehovah made known his salvation: to the eyes of the nations he uncovered his justice.
And it will be reckoned to him for justice to generation and generation, even to forever.
I will praise thee in uprightness of heart in my learning the judgments of thy justice.
Benefit to thy servant, I shall live and watch thy word.
The middle of the night I will arise to confess to thee for the judgments of thy justice.
I knew, O Jehovah, that thy judgments are justice, and in truth thou didst humble me.
Jehovah is just in all his ways, and merciful in all his works.
Good a little with justice above abundance of increase with no judgment
Lips of justice the acceptance of kings; and he will love the word of the upright
And yet I saw under the sun the place of judgment, there the unjust one; and the place of the just one, there the unjust one.
And I will turn back thy judges as in the beginning, and thy counsellors as in the beginning: after this he shall call to thee, The city of justice, the faithful city. Zion shall be ransomed with judgment and her captivity with justice.
Wo to those drawing iniquity with cords of evil, and sin as the cords of a wagon:
Justifying the unjust on account of a gift, and they will take away the justice of the just from him.
Justifying the unjust on account of a gift, and they will take away the justice of the just from him.
For if my people Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, the remnant shall turn back among them: a consumption decided overflowing justice.
And he judged the powerless with justice, and he decided in straightness for the humble of the earth: and he struck the earth with the rod of his mouth, and by the spirit of his lips he will slay the unjust. And justice was the girding of his loins, and truth the girding of his loins.
And the throne was set up in mercy: and he sat upon it in truth in the tent of David, judging and seeking judgment, and hastening justice.
And thou, Israel, my servant Jacob whom I chose thee, the seed of Abraham my beloved: Whom I held thee fast from the extremities of the earth, and I called thee from its sides, and saying to thee, Thou my servant; I chose thee, and I rejected thee not read more. Thou shalt not fear, for I am with thee: thou shalt not look around for help for I thy God will strengthen thee; also I helped thee; also I held thee up with the right hand of my justice. Behold, all they burning with anger against thee shall be ashamed and disgraced: they shall be as nothing; and the men of thy strife shall be destroyed.
Jehovah was pleased for sake of his justice; he will magnify the law and make glorious.
Drop, ye heavens, from above, and the clouds shall shake out justice: the earth shall open, and they shall bring forth salvation, and justice shall spring up together; I Jehovah created it
I brought near my justice; it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not delay: and I gave salvation in Zion for Israel my beauty.
Hear to me, ye pursuing justice, seeking Jehovah: look to the rock ye hewed, and at the quarry of the pit ye dug out
Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look to the earth from beneath: for the heavens as smoke vanished away, and the earth as a garment shall decay, and they inhabiting as thus shall die; and my salvation shall be forever, and my justice shall not be broken. Hear to me, ye knowing justice, the people my law in their heart; ye shall not fear the reproach of men; and from their reviling ye shall not be dismayed.
Is not this the fast I shall choose? to loose the bands of injustice, to shake off the bundles of the yoke, and to send away the broken free, and ye shall break every yoke?
For this judgment was far off from us, and justice shall not overtake us: we shall wait for light, and behold, darkness; for brightness, and we shall walk in thick darkness.
For as the earth will bring forth her sprout, and as a garden will cause the things sown to sprout, so the Lord Jehovah will cause justice and praise to sprout before all nations.
For sake of Zion I will not be silent, and for sake of Jerusalem I will not rest till its justice shall go forth as brightness, and her salvation as a flame shall burn.
Just art thou, O Jehovah, for I will strive to thee: surely I will speak judgments with thee: Wherefore did the way of the evil prosper? all they acting faithlessly with treachery were secure?
And if a man shall be just and do judgment and justice, Not to eat upon the mountains, and not to lift up his eyes to the blocks of the house of Israel, and not to defile his neighbor's wife, and he shall not come near to a woman of uncleanness. read more. And he shall not oppress a man; he shall turn back his pledge to the debtor; he will not strip off plunder, his bread he will give to him hungry, and the naked he will cover with a garment; And he shall not give upon interest, and he shall not take interest, from iniquity he shall turn back his hand; he shall do judgment of truth between man to man. In my laws he shall go and he watched my judgments to do the truth; he is just; living, he shall live, says the Lord Jehovah.
Saying, When will the month pass through, and we will sell grain? and the Sabbath, and we will open wheat to diminish the ephah, and to enlarge the shekel, and to make crooked the balance of deceit?
Shall I make clean with the balances of injustice, and with the bag of stones of deceit?
Being pure of eyes from beholding evil, and wilt not be able to look upon labor: wherefore wilt thou look upon the transgressors? wilt thou be silent in the unjust swallowing the just above him?
And to you fearing my name the sun of justice arose, and healing in his wings; and ye went forth and spread as calves of the stall.
And Jesus having answered said to him, Permit now; for so it is suitable for us to complete all justice: then he permitted him.
Happy they hungering and thirsting for Justice: for they shall be filled.
Happy they driven out for justice: for their's is the kingdom of the heavens.
For I say to you, That except your justice abound more than the scribes and Pharisees, ye should not come into the kingdom of the heavens.
Attend ye not to do your justice before men, to be seen to them; and if otherwise ye have no reward from your Father which in the heavens.
Attend ye not to do your justice before men, to be seen to them; and if otherwise ye have no reward from your Father which in the heavens.
But seek first the kingdom of God and his justice, and all these shall be added to you.
For John came to you in the way of justice, and ye believed him not: and the publicans and harlots believed him; and ye, seeing, repented not afterwards, to believe him.
And having come, he will convict the world of sin, and of justice, and of judgment:
And of justice, because I retire to my Father, and ye see me no more;
For the justice of God in it is revealed from faith to faith: as has been written, And the just shall live by faith.
And according to thy hardness and impenitent heart thou treasurest up to thyself anger in the day of anger and revelation of the just judgment of God;
And we see they could not come in through unbelief.
Morish
A term frequently occurring in scripture expressing an attribute of God which maintains what is consistent with His own character, and necessarily judges what is opposed to it
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To the overseer; of David. The fool said in his heart, No God. They were corrupted, they made their; works abominable, none doing good. Jehovah looked down from the heavens upon the sons of men, to see is there he understanding, seeking God. read more. All turned away together, they were corrupted: none doing good, not even one.
As has been written, That there is no just one, not one:
For what says the writing? And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for justice.
And to him not working, and believing upon him justifying the impious, his faith is reckoned for justice.
Therefore, my brethren, ye also were dead to the law by the body of Christ; for you not to be to another, but to him raised from the dead, that we bring forth fruit to God.
For not knowing the justice of God, and seeking to establish their own justice, they have not been subjected to the justice of God.
And ye are of him in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and also justice, and consecration, and holiness:
I put not away the grace of God for if justice through the law, Christ died in vain.
Every one doing sin also does lawlessness; for sin is lawlessness. And ye know that he was manifested that he might let go our sins; and in him is no sin. read more. Every one remaining in him sins not: every one sinning has not seen him, nor known him. Little children, let none deceive you: he doing justice is just, as he is just.
And it was given her that she put on fine linen, pure and shining: for fine linen is the justification of the holy.
Watsons
RIGHTEOUSNESS, justice, holiness. The righteousness of God is the essential perfection of his nature; sometimes it is put for his justice. The righteousness of Christ denotes, not only his absolute perfection, but, is taken for his perfect obedience unto death, and his suffering the penalty of the law in our stead. The righteousness of the law is that obedience which the law requires. The righteousness of faith is the justification which is received by faith.