But go and learn what this is, I will have mercy and not sacrifice. For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

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

Then the righteous shall shine out like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.

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

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you build the tombs of the prophets, and decorate the tombs of the righteous,

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

Then the righteous shall answer Him, saying, Lord, when did we see You hungry, and fed You? Or thirsty, and gave You drink?

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

When Jesus heard, He said to them, They who are strong have no need of a physician, but the ones who have illness. I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

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

I did not come to call the righteous to repentance, but sinners.

And He spoke this parable to certain ones who trusted in themselves, that they were righteous, and despised others:

And they watched and sent forth spies, pretending themselves to be righteous men, so that they might seize upon a word of His, that they might deliver Him in this way to the power and authority of the governor.

And when the centurion saw what had been done, he glorified God, saying, Truly this Man was righteous.

Do not judge according to sight, but judge righteous judgment.

O righteous Father, indeed the world has not known You; but I have known You, and these have known that You have sent me.

who, knowing the righteous order of God, that those practicing such things are worthy of death, not only do them, but have pleasure in those practicing them.

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

as it is written: "There is none righteous, no not one;

For one will with difficulty die for a righteous one, yet perhaps one would even dare to die for a good one.

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

even as it is righteous for me to think this of you all, because you have me in your heart, inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, you are all partakers of my grace.

For this 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,

since it is a righteous thing with God to repay tribulation to those who trouble you,

knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous one, 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,

Now there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give me at that Day; and not to me only, but also to all those who love His appearing.

By faith Abel offered to 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 faults to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous one avails much.

For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and His ears open to their prayers. But the Lord's face is against those who do evil.

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

And He delivered righteous Lot, oppressed with the lustful behavior of the lawless.

For that righteous one living among them, in seeing and hearing, his righteous soul was tormented from day to day with their unlawful deeds.

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.

If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone who does righteousness has been born of Him.

Little children, let no one deceive you. He who does righteousness is righteous, even as that One is righteous.

not as Cain who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. And for what did he kill him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's things were righteous.

And I heard the angel of the waters say, Righteous is the Lord, who is, and was, and who will be, because You have judged these things,

And I heard another out of the altar saying, 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 defiled the earth with her fornication, and He has avenged the blood of His servants out of her hand.

He acting unjustly, let him still act unjustly. And the filthy, let him be filthy still. And the righteous, let him be righteous still. And the holy, let him be holy still.