Abraham came near and said: Will you destroy the righteous with the wicked?

Surely you would not do that! Would you slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be as the wicked? Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

Do no injustice in judgment. Do not be partial to the poor nor defer to the great. Judge your neighbor fairly.

I get my knowledge from afar. I ascribe justice to my Maker.

My righteousness is near. My salvation is on the way and my arm (power) will bring justice to the nations. The islands will look to me and wait in hope for my arm (power). 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. read more. Hear me, you who know what is right, you people who have my law in your hearts. Do not fear the reproach of men or be terrified by their insults. 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.

I will bring gold instead of copper. I will bring silver instead of iron, copper instead of wood, and iron instead of stone. I will appoint peace as your governor and righteousness as your ruler.

Righteous Father, the world has not known you. I know you and those you sent me know you.

But now apart from the Law the righteousness of God has been revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets. 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.

They are ignorant of God's righteousness. They seek to establish their own righteousness and have not submitted to 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 light (life) (spirit) consists of all goodness and righteousness and truth.

Use honest scales, honest weights, and honest measures. I am Jehovah your God who brought you out of Egypt.

I charged your judges to hear the cases between your countrymen and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger with him.

Bind them for a sign upon your hand. They shall be as frontlets between your eyes.

If we are careful to do these commandments before Jehovah our God, just as he ordered us, it will mean righteousness for us.'

If we are careful to do these commandments before Jehovah our God, just as he ordered us, it will mean righteousness for us.'

Appoint judges and officers for your tribes in every city Jehovah your God gives you. They are to judge the people fairly.

Return the pledge to him before the sun goes down. He will have his pledged item and he may sleep. He will bless you. And it will be righteousness for you before Jehovah your God.

When there is a dispute between men and they go to court, and the judges decide their case. They justify the righteous and condemn the wicked.

He is the Rock! His work is perfect. For all His ways are just. He is a God of faithfulness and without evil. He is just and upright.

O Jehovah, listen in heaven and judge your servants. Punish the guilty one, as he deserves. Justify the one who is innocent.

Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of the scornful mockers.

Therefore the wicked will not stand (be upright) in the judgment. The sinners will not stand (endure) in the assembly of the righteous. Jehovah knows (is fully aware of) the way of the righteous. But the way of the wicked will perish.

Let the evil of the wicked come to an end. Establish the righteous, you who test the minds and hearts, O righteous God.

Jehovah is righteous. He loves a righteous way of life. Upright people will see his face (contemplate his presence).

They were in great fear and panic because God is with the righteous person.

They will tell people yet to be born about the righteousness he has performed.

He will obtain blessing from Jehovah and righteousness from the God of his salvation.

I announced the good news of righteousness in the great congregation. I will not close my lips. You know that, O Jehovah.

Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne. Loving kindness and truth go before you.

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

Jehovah has made his salvation known. He has uncovered his righteousness for the nations to see.

Because of this, Phinehas was considered righteous forever, throughout every generation.

This is the gate of Jehovah; only the righteous can come in.

I will give thanks to you with uprightness of heart, when I learn your righteous judgments.

Deal bountifully with your servant that I may live and keep your word.

At midnight I shall rise to give thanks to you for your righteous ordinances.

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

Jehovah is righteous in all his ways. He is kind in all his deeds.

Better to be poor with righteousness than rich with injustice.

Righteous lips are the delight of kings. They love the man who speaks what is right.

I saw under the sun the place of judgment and wickedness was there. And wickedness was in the place of righteousness.

I will give you judges like you had long ago, advisers like you had in the beginning. After that you will be called the Righteous City, the Faithful City. Jehovah's justice will pardon Zion. Those who return will be pardoned by Jehovah's righteousness.

Woe to those who scatter sin with cords of falsehood and iniquity with a cart rope!

You let the guilty go free for a bribe and you keep the innocent from getting justice.

You let the guilty go free for a bribe and you keep the innocent from getting justice.

Your people, O Israel, are like the sand of the sea. Yet only a remnant within them will return. Overwhelming and righteous destruction has been decreed.

But with righteousness he will judge the poor, and decide with fairness for the afflicted of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth (power of his words), and with the spirit (breath) of his lips he will destroy the wicked. Righteousness will be the belt around his loins. Faithfulness will be the belt around His waist.

In love a throne will be established and in faithfulness a man will sit on it. One shall sit upon it in truth and faithfulness. He will be from the tent of David. He will judge and seek justice and speed the cause of righteousness.

However you, O Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, you descendants of Abraham, my friend, I took you from the ends of the earth. I called you from its farthest corners. I said: 'You are my servant. I have chosen you and have not rejected you. read more. Do not fear for I am with you! Do not be dismayed for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you. I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.' All who rage against you will be ashamed and disgraced. Those who oppose you will be as nothing and perish.

Jehovah is a God who is eager to save. He exalted his laws and teachings, and he wanted his people to honor them.

Rain down from above, you heavens, and pour down righteousness, you skies. Let the earth open. Let salvation and righteousness sprout. Let them spring up for I Jehovah have created them.

I bring near my righteousness. It is not far away. My salvation will not be delayed. I will grant salvation to Zion, my splendor to Israel.

Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness and who seek Jehovah. Look to the rock from which you were hewn and to the quarry from which you were dug out.

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. Hear me, you who know what is right, you people who have my law in your hearts. Do not fear the reproach of men or be terrified by their insults.

Is this not the fast I choose to loosen the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free and break every yoke?

That is why justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We hope for light and we walk in darkness. We hope for brightness but we walk in gloom.

For as the earth brings forth its sprouts, and as a garden causes the things sown in it to spring up, the Lord Jehovah will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.

For Zion's sake I will not remain silent. For Jerusalem's sake I will not rest until its righteousness shines like the sunrise and its salvation burns brightly like a torch.

Jehovah, if I argued my case with you, you would prove to be right. Indeed, I must question you about matters of justice. Why are the wicked so prosperous? Why do dishonest people succeed with impunity?

If a man is righteous and practices justice and righteousness, and does not eat at the mountain shrines or lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, or defile his neighbor's wife or approach a woman during her menstrual period; read more. if a man does not oppress anyone, but restores to the debtor his pledge, does not commit robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing. If he does not lend money on interest or take increase, if he keeps his hand from iniquity and executes true justice between man and man, if he lives by my rules and obeys my laws faithfully this person is righteous. He will certainly live,' declares the Lord Jehovah.

You who turn justice to wormwood (a curse), and cast righteousness down to the earth

You say: 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 dealing falsely with balances of deceit.

Can I be pure with wicked scales and with a bag of deceitful stone weights?

Your eyes are too pure to look at evil. You cannot look at perversity. Why do you look at treacherous persons and not act? Why do you keep quiet when the wicked destroy the man who is more righteous?

The sun of righteousness with it's healing will shine on you who respect my name and obey me. You will be free and paw the ground like fat calves.

Jesus answered emphatically: This is the proper way to do everything that God requires. This is the way it must be!

Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.

Blessed are they who are persecuted for righteousness sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven.

I also tell you, your righteousness must be greater than the scribes and Pharisees or you will not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

Be careful! Do not display your righteousness (good works) before men to be noticed by them. If you do, you will have no reward with your heavenly Father.

Be careful! Do not display your righteousness (good works) before men to be noticed by them. If you do, you will have no reward with your heavenly Father.

Seek (desire) (require) (serve) first the kingdom of God and his righteousness [continuously] and all these things will be added to you.

John came to you in the way of righteousness and you did not believe him. Even the tax collectors and prostitutes believed him. When you saw this, you did not regret your sins and did not have faith in him.

Upon arrival this one will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment.

Second, of righteousness, because I go to the Father and you will not see me anymore.

It reveals the righteousness of God from faith-to-faith for it is written: The righteous shall live by faith.

Thanks to your stubborn and unrepentant heart, you store up wrath for yourself, in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God.

We see that they could not enter in on account of a lack of faith (unbelief) (disobedience).

([Psalm of David]) The fool says in his heart: There is no God (Jehovah) (Psalm 10:4). They are corrupt. They do disgusting things. No one does good things. Jehovah looks down from heaven on the sons of men to see if there is anyone who acts wisely, if there is anyone who seeks help from God. read more. Everyone has turned away. Together they have become rotten to the core. No one, not even one person, does good things.

The Scriptures say: There is no one who is righteous,

For what does the scriptures say? Abraham believed Jehovah, and it was counted to him as righteousness. (Genesis 15:6)

He who does not work but believes in him who justifies (absolves) the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.

Brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ; that you should be joined to another, even to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit to God.

They are ignorant of God's righteousness. They seek to establish their own righteousness and have not submitted to the righteousness of God.

It is because of him you are united with Christ Jesus, who became wisdom to us from God, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption.

I do not reject the grace (totally undeserved gift) of God: for if righteousness is [gained] through the law, then Christ died for nothing.

Everyone who practices (exercises) sin also commits lawlessness, because sin is lawlessness. You know that he appeared to take away sins. There is no sin in him! read more. Whoever abides in him does not sin. Whoever sins has not seen him and does not know him. My little children let no man deceive you! He who practices righteousness is righteous, even as he [Christ] is righteous.

It was granted to her that she dress in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen represents the righteous acts of the holy ones.