47 Bible Verses about Righteousness, As Faith

And we were all as the unclean, and all our justice as the garment of monthly courses; and we shall all fail away as the leaf; and our iniquities as the wind will take us away.

For I say to you, That except your justice abound more than the scribes and Pharisees, ye should not come into the kingdom of the heavens.

Every way of a man right in his eyes: and Jehovah will prepare hearts.

Incline, O my God, thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and see our desolations, and the city which thy name was called upon it: for not for our justice do we cause our supplications to fall before thee, but for thy many compassions.

So also ye without truly appear just to men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

And he said to them, Ye are they justifying yourselves before men; and God knows your hearts: for the high with men is abomination before God.

And he spake to certain trusting upon themselves that they were just, and setting at nought the rest, this parable:

As has been written, That there is no just one, not one:

For zeal, driving out the church; for justice in the law, not to be found fault with. But what things were gain to me, these I have thought loss for Christ.

For the impossibility of the law, in that it was weak by the flesh, God having sent his own Son in the likeness of the flesh of sin, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: That the justification of the law be filled up in us, not walking according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

And to put on the new man, created according to God in justice and sanctity of truth.

If ye know that he is just, ye know that every one doing justice has been born of him.

Neither present ye your members weapons of injustice to sin: but present yourselves to God, as living from the dead, and your members weapons of justice to God.

And if Christ in you, truly the body dead by sin; and the Spirit life by justice.

For the kingdom of God is not food and drink; but justice, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

For we in spirit by faith expect the hope of justice.

(For the fruit of the Spirit in all goodness and justice and truth.;)

Filled with the fruits of justice, by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

And truly every correction for the present seems not to be for joy, but grief: and later it returns the peaceful fruit of justice to them being exercised by it.

And the fruit of justice is sown in peace by those making peace.

Who himself bear up our sins in his body upon the wood, that we, removed from sins, should live to justice: by whose bloody mark ye were healed.

In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the accuser: every one not doing justice is not of God, and he not loving his brother.

And he believed in Jehovah; and it shall be reckoned to him justice.

And without faith it is impossible to please: for he approaching to God must believe that he is, and is a remunerator to them seeking him out.

And Jehovah will turn back to a man his justice and his truth; for Jehovah gave thee this day in hand, and I would not stretch forth my hand against Jehovah's Messiah.

Many the sorrows to the unjust one: and he trusting in Jehovah, mercy shall surround him.

Happy the man who set Jehovah his trust, and turned not to the arrogant, and those turning aside to falsehood.

O Jehovah of armies, happy the man trusting in thee.

And Phinehas will stand and intercede, and the blow will be restrained. And it will be reckoned to him for justice to generation and generation, even to forever.

Blessed the man who shall trust in Jehovah, and his trust was Jehovah.

Behold, his soul being inflated in him, was not straight: and the just one shall live by his faithfulness.

And the just one shall live by faith; but if he draw down, my soul is not contented in him.

By faith Abel brought near a greater sacrifice to God than Cain, by which he was testified of to be just, God testifying of his gifts; and by it he being dead yet speaks.

For the justice of God in it is revealed from faith to faith: as has been written, And the just shall live by faith.

But surely, I also think all things to be loss for the superiority of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have been made to lose all things, and I think to be offscourings, that I shall gain Christ, And be found in him, not having my justice, that of the law, but that by faith of Christ, the justice from God by faith:

And from all which ye could not be justified by Moses' law, every one believing in him is justified.

But now without law the justice of God has been made apparent, being testified by the law and by the prophets;

What then shall we say Abraham our father to have found, according to the flesh? For if Abraham was justified by works, he has boasting; but not toward God. For what says the writing? And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for justice.read more.
And to him working, the reward is not reckoned according to favor, but according to debt. And to him not working, and believing upon him justifying the impious, his faith is reckoned for justice. As also David speaks the happiness of the man, to whom God reckons justice without works, Happy they whose iniquities were remitted, and whose sins were covered. A happy man to whom the Lord should not reckon sin.

For if by the fall of one, death reigned by one; much more they receiving the abundance of grace and the gift of justice in life shall reign by one, Jesus Christ.)

What then shall we say? That the nations, not following justice, overtook justice, and the justice of faith. And Israel following the law of justice, reached not the law of justice.

And that none is justified in the law before God, is manifest: for, The just shall live of faith. And the law is not of faith: but, The man having done them shall live in them.

Justified therefore of faith we have peace with God by our Lord Jesus Christ: By whom also we have had access by faith into this grace in which we have stood, and we boast upon hope of the glory of God.

But now without law the justice of God has been made apparent, being testified by the law and by the prophets; And the justice of God by faith of Jesus Christ to all and upon all believing: for there is no distinction: For all have sinned, and failed of the glory of God;read more.
Being justified as a gift by his grace by the redemption which is in Christ Jesus: Whom God had set before a propitiatory by faith in his blood, for a manifestation of his justice by passing over of sins before existing, in the sufferance of God; For the manifestation of his justice now in time: for him to be just, and justifying him of the faith of Jesus.

Who against hope believed upon hope, for him to become father of many nations, according to that said, So shall thy seed be. And not having been weak in faith, he observed not his own body already having been dead, being about a hundred years, and the death of Sarah's womb: And for the promise of God he was not separated by unbelief; but was strengthened in faith, having given glory to God;read more.
And made perfectly certain that, what was promised, he is able to do. And therefore it was reckoned to him for justice. And it was not written for him alone, that it was reckoned to him; But also for us, to whom it is about to be reckoned, to them believing upon him having raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead; Who was delivered up for our faults, and raised up for our justification.

And the justice of faith says thus, Thou shouldest not say in thy heart, Who shall go up to heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down:) Or, Who shall go down to the abyss? (that is, to bring up Christ from the dead.) But what does it say? The word is near thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we proclaim;read more.
For if thou confess in thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in thy heart that God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart is believed for justice: and with the mouth is confessed for salvation.

As Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for justice. Know ye therefore that they of faith, these are sons of Abraham. And the writing, foreseeing that of faith God justifies the nations, announced beforehand the good news to Abraham, That in thee shall all nations be praised.read more.
So that they of faith are praised with faithful Abraham.

Was not Abraham our father justified by works, having brought up Isaac his son upon the altar Thou seest that faith cooperated with his works, and from works was faith perfected. And the writing was completed, saying, And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for justice: and he was called the Friend of God.read more.
Therefore ye see that man is justified from works, and not from faith alone.