But go and learn what that means, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

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.

For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which you see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which you hear, and have not heard them.

Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who has ears to hear, let him hear.

Even so you also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you build the tombs of the prophets, and adorn the sepulchers of the righteous,

That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom you slew between the temple and the altar.

Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we you hungry, and fed you? or thirsty, and gave you drink?

And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.

When Jesus heard it, he said unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.

I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

And not many days later the younger son gathered everything together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.

And he spoke this parable unto certain who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others:

Now when the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, Certainly this was a righteous man.

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

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

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;

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

For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet perhaps for a good man some would even dare to die.

For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.

Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you also suffer:

Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;

Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.

By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaks.

Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that you may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.

For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.

And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?

(For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)

My little children, these things write I unto you, that you sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:

If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone that does righteousness is born of him.

Little children, let no man deceive you: he that does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And why slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

And I heard the angel of the waters say, You are righteous, O Lord, who is, and was, and shall be, because you have judged thus.

And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are your judgments.

For true and righteous are his judgments: for he has judged the great harlot, who did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.

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.

He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he that is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.