and do not present your members to sin as instruments to be used for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead and your members to God as instruments to be used for righteousness.

Do you not know that if you present yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or obedience resulting in righteousness?

and having been freed from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness.

(I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh.) For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.

For when you were slaves of sin, you were free with regard to righteousness.

But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is your life because of righteousness.

but Israel even though pursuing a law of righteousness did not attain it.

For Christ is the end of the law, with the result that there is righteousness for everyone who believes.

For Moses writes about the righteousness that is by the law: "The one who does these things will live by them."

For with the heart one believes and thus has righteousness and with the mouth one confesses and thus has salvation.

But the wise will shine like the brightness of the heavenly expanse. And those bringing many to righteousness will be like the stars forever and ever.

I will commit myself to you forever; I will commit myself to you in righteousness and justice, in steadfast love and tender compassion.

Sow righteousness for yourselves, reap unfailing love. Break up the unplowed ground for yourselves, for it is time to seek the Lord, until he comes and showers deliverance on you.

For the kingdom of God does not consist of food and drink, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

He is the reason you have a relationship with Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

And I will bring them to settle within Jerusalem. They will be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and righteousness.'

So Jesus replied to him, "Let it happen now, for it is right for us to fulfill all righteousness." Then John yielded to him.

"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be satisfied.

"Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to them.

For I tell you, unless your righteousness goes beyond that of the experts in the law and the Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

For if there was glory in the ministry that produced condemnation, how much more does the ministry that produces righteousness excel in glory!

"Be careful not to display your righteousness merely to be seen by people. Otherwise you have no reward with your Father in heaven.

But above all pursue his kingdom and righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.