So, I tell you, there shall be joy in heaven over one sinner that changes his mind, more than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need a change of mind.

and delivered righteous Lot, vexed by the lewd conduct of the wicked;??8 for that righteous man living among them vexed his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their wicked deeds;??9 the Lord knows how to deliver the pious from trial, and to keep the wicked to the day of judgment to be punished,

He that receives a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward, and he that receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man's reward.

Little children, let no one deceive you. He that does righteousness is righteous, as he is righteous;

that all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah, son of Bararchiah, whom you killed between the temple and the altar, may come upon you.

And the centurion seeing what was done, glorified God, saying, Truly this was a righteous man.

And behold, a man by the name of Joseph, a counsellor, a good and righteous man,

And he also spoke this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others:

And they sent spies to watch him, who pretended to be righteous men, that they might take advantage of his speech, to deliver him to the power and authority of the procurator.

Judge not according to the appearance, but judge a righteous judgment.

and, righteous Father, the world has not known thee, but I have known thee, and these have known that thou didst send me.

Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? And they killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you now have become betrayers and murderers,

but you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked a murderer to be given you,

And they said, Cornelius a centurion, a righteous man, and one that fears God, and esteemed by all the nation of the Jews, was divinely instructed by a holy angel to send for you to his house and hear words from you.

For God's righteousness is revealed in it by faith in the faith [the gospel]; as it is written; The righteous shall live by faith.

But according to your hardness and unchanged heart you treasure up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath and of a revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

For as many as have sinned without the law shall perish without the law, and as many as have sinned with the law shall be judged by the law,??13 for not the hearers of the law are righteous with God, but the doers of the law shall be justified;

as it is written, There is none righteous not one,

to show his righteousness at the present time, that he may be righteous and justify him that is of faith.

for scarcely for a righteous man will one die, but for a good man some one perhaps would even dare to die;

and not as through one that sinned is the gift; for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the gift was from many sins to a righteous ordinance;

for if by one fall death reigned through the one, much more those who receive the abundance of the grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ;??18 therefore, as through the fall of one [judgment came] on all men to condemnation, so also through the righteous ordinance of one [the gift comes] on all men to justification of life;

for as through the disobedience of the one man the many were constituted sinners, so also through the obedience of the one shall the many be constituted righteous.

And he said, The God of our fathers chose you to know his will, and to see the Righteous One, and hear the voice of his mouth,

having a hope in God which they also hold, that there will be a resurrection both of the righteous and wicked.

The law therefore is holy, and the commandment holy and righteous and good.

that the righteous ordinance of the law may be performed by us who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the spirit.

a token of the righteous judgment of God that you should be deemed worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you also suffer,