And Abraham drew near, and said, will you also destroy the righteous with the wicked?

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

You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: you shall not be partial to the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.

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

My righteousness is near; my salvation has gone forth, and my arms shall judge the people; the coastlands shall wait upon me, and on my arm shall they trust. 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 grow old like a garment, and they that dwell in it shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be forever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished. read more. Hearken unto me, you that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear you not the reproach of men, neither be you 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 forever, and my salvation from generation to generation.

For bronze I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood bronze, and for stones iron: I will also make your officers peace, and your rulers righteousness.

O righteous Father, the world has not known you: but I have known you, and these have known that you have sent me.

But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; Even the righteousness of God which is by faith in Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: 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 you have: I am the LORD 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 you shall bind them for a sign upon your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.

And it shall be righteousness for us, if we observe to do all these commandments before the LORD our God, as he has commanded us.

And it shall be righteousness for us, if we observe to do all these commandments before the LORD our God, as he has commanded us.

Judges and officers shall you make in all your gates, which the LORD your God gives you, throughout your tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.

In any case you shall deliver him the pledge again when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his own clothing, and bless you: and it shall be righteousness unto you before the LORD your God.

If there is a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.

He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are justice: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.

Then hear you in heaven, and act, and judge your servants, 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 walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits 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.

Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God tests the minds and hearts.

For the righteous LORD loves righteousness; his countenance does behold the upright.

There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation 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 salvation.

I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not restrained my lips, O LORD, you know.

Righteousness and justice are the habitation of your throne: mercy and truth shall go before your face.

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

The LORD has made known his salvation: his righteousness has he openly showed in the sight of the nations.

And that was counted unto him for righteousness unto all generations forevermore.

This gate of the LORD, into which the righteous shall enter.

I will praise you with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned your righteous judgments.

[Gimel] Deal bountifully with your servant, that I may live, and keep your word.

At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto you because of your righteous judgments.

I know, O LORD, that your judgments are right, and that you in faithfulness have afflicted me.

The LORD is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works.

Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without justice.

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

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

And I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors as at the beginning: afterward you shall be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city. Zion shall be redeemed with justice, and her converts with righteousness.

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

Who justify the wicked for a bribe, and take away the justice of the righteous from him!

Who justify the wicked for a bribe, and take away the justice of the righteous from him!

For though your people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the destruction decreed shall overflow with righteousness.

But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked. And righteousness shall be the belt of his loins, and faithfulness the belt of his waist.

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

But you, Israel, are my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the descendant of Abraham my friend. You whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called you from its chief men, and said unto you, you are my servant; I have chosen you, and not cast you away. read more. Fear not; for I am with you: be not dismayed; for I am your God: I will strengthen you; yea, I will help you; yea, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness. Behold, all they that were incensed against you shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with you shall perish.

The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honorable.

Drop down, you heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the LORD have created it.

I bring near my righteousness: it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not tarry: and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.

Hearken to me, you that follow after righteousness, you that seek the LORD: look unto the rock from where you were hewn, and to the hole of the pit from which you were 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 grow old like a garment, and they that dwell in it shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be forever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished. Hearken unto me, you that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear you not the reproach of men, neither be you afraid of their revilings.

Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?

Therefore is justice far from us, neither does righteousness overtake us: we wait for light, but behold darkness; for brightness, but we walk in gloom.

For as the earth brings forth its bud, and as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.

For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until its righteousness goes forth as brightness, and its salvation as a lamp that burns.

Righteous are you, O LORD, when I plead with you: yet let me talk with you of your judgments: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they happy that deal very treacherously?

But if a man is just, and does that which is lawful and right, And has not eaten upon the mountains, neither has lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither has defiled his neighbor's wife, neither has come near a woman during her impurity, read more. And has not oppressed any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has robbed none by violence, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment; He that has not lent money for interest, neither has taken any increase, that has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed true justice between man and man, Has walked in my statutes, and has kept my judgments faithfully; he is just, he shall surely live, says the Lord GOD.

You who turn justice to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,

Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?

Shall I count those pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?

You are of purer eyes than to behold evil, and can not look on iniquity: why do you look upon them that deal treacherously, and hold your tongue when the wicked devours the man that is more righteous than he?

But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and you shall go forth, and grow up like calves of the stall.

And Jesus answering said unto him, Permit it to be so now: for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness. Then he permitted him.

Blessed are they who do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

Blessed are they who are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

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

Take heed that you give not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise you have no reward of your Father who is in heaven.

Take heed that you give not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise you have no reward of your Father who is in heaven.

But seek you 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 you believed him not: but the tax collectors and the harlots believed him: and you, when you had seen it, repented not afterward, that you might believe him.

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

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

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

But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart treasure up unto yourself 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 unbelief.

[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none 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 none that does good, no, not one.

As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:

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

But to him that works not, but believes on him that justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.

Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that you should be married 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.

And of him are you in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:

I do not nullify 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 you know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin. read more. Whosoever abides in him sins not: whosoever sins has not seen him, neither known him. Little children, let no man deceive you: he that does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

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