28 Bible Verses about A Righteous People

For I say to you, that unless your righteousness abounds more than of the scholars and Pharisees, ye will, no, not enter into the kingdom of the heavens.

He has shown thee, O man, what is good. And what does LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with thy God?

To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to LORD than sacrifice.

But having answered, Jesus said to him, Allow it now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness. Then he allows him.

For the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in Holy Spirit.

and to put on the new man according to God, the man who was created in righteousness and piety of the truth.

Blessed are those who keep justice, and he who does righteousness at all times.

having been filled with fruits of righteousness, through Jesus Christ, for glory and praise of God.

disciplining us, so that, having denied irreverence and worldly lusts, we should live soberly and righteously and piously in the present age.

And he who supplies seed to the man who sows, and bread for eating, may he supply and multiply your seed, and may he increase the fruits of your righteousness,

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

And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counselors as at the beginning. Afterward thou shall be called the city of righteousness, a faithful town.

Zion shall be redeemed with justice, and her converts with righteousness.

LORD is exalted, for he dwells on high. He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.

Thus says LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Yet again they shall use this speech in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof when I shall bring again their captivity: LORD bless thee, O habitation of righteousness, O mountain of

Thy people also shall all be righteous. They shall inherit the land forever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.

In LORD all the seed of Israel shall be justified, and shall glory.

to appoint to those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of LORD, that

For Zion's sake I will not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until her righteousness goes forth as brightness, and her salvation as a lamp that burns.

And the nations shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory. And thou shall be called by a new name, which the mouth of LORD shall name.

Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keeps faith may enter in.

Then justice shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness shall abide in the fruitful field.

And I will betroth thee to me forever. Yea, I will betroth thee to me in righteousness, and in justice, and in loving kindness, and in mercies.

He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.

Remember, I pray thee, who [ever] perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?

[It is] because of the sins of her prophets, [and] the iniquities of her priests, who have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her.

But of course no chastening for the present seems to be of joy but of sorrow, yet afterward it yields peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace to those who make peace.