28 Bible Verses about A Righteous People

For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

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

But Jesus answered him, "Let it be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness." Then he consented.

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

and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.

Blessed are they who observe justice, who do righteousness at all times!

filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age,

He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness.

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

And I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward you shall be called the city of righteousness, the faithful city."

Zion shall be redeemed by justice, and those in her who repent, by righteousness.

The LORD is exalted, for he dwells on high; he will fill Zion with justice and righteousness,

Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "Once more they shall use these words in the land of Judah and in its cities, when I restore their fortunes: "'The LORD bless you, O habitation of righteousness, O holy hill!'

Your people shall all be righteous; they shall possess the land forever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I might be glorified.

In the LORD all the offspring of Israel shall be justified and shall glory."

to grant to those who mourn in Zion-- to give them a beautiful headdress instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, the garment of praise instead of a faint spirit; that they may be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he may be glorified.

For Zion's sake I will not keep silent, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not be quiet, until her righteousness goes forth as brightness, and her salvation as a burning torch.

The nations shall see your righteousness, and all the kings your glory, and you shall be called by a new name that the mouth of the LORD will give.

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

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

And I will betroth you to me forever. I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy.

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

"Remember: who that was innocent ever perished? Or where were the upright cut off?

This was for the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, who shed in the midst of her the blood of the righteous.

For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.