45 Bible Verses about Righteousness

He saying he remains in him ought, as he walked about, so also he to walk about.

And not as by one having sinned, the gift: for truly the judgment of one to condemnation, but the favor of many falls to justification. 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.)

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

And ye are of him in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and also justice, and consecration, and holiness:

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

And the work of justice was peace, and the service of justice, rest and confidence, even to forever.

Acknowledge your faults to one another, and pray for one another, that ye might be healed. The prayer of the just, being energetic, is very powerful.

Then shall the just emit a brilliant light as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He having ears to hear, let him hear.

I was a youth, also I grew old, and I saw not the just one forsaken and his seed seeking bread.

The just one going about in his integrity: his sons happy after him.

The just one shall flourish as the palm tree: he shall become great as the cedar in Lebanon.

The path of the just as the light shining, going and shining even to the day prepared.

And they were both just before God, going faultless in all the commands and precepts of the Lord.

And in this I myself attend carefully, to have a conscience unhurt towards God and men always.

The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, and they shall not speak falsehood: and in their mouth shall not be found a tongue of deceit: for they shall feed and lie down, and none terrifying.

And she a widow of about eighty-four years, who departed not from the temple, with fastings and supplications serving night and day.

And he will do the straight in the eyes of Jehovah according to all which David his father did.

Sow to yourselves for justice, reap ye for the mouth of kindness; break up to you the fallow ground: and the time to seek Jehovah till he shall come and cast justice upon you.

Stand therefore, having girded your loins around with truth, and put on the armor of justice;

And thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow justice, devotion, faith, love, patience, meekness.

And he discoursing of justice, and temperance, and judgment about to be, Felix being terrified, answered, Having now, go; having taken time, I will recall thee.

Wherefore, O king, my counsel shall be pleasant to thee, and break off thy sins by justice, and thine iniquities in compassionating the poor; if it shall be a lengthening to thy peace.

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

Justified therefore of faith we have peace with God by our Lord Jesus Christ:

So that the law was our preceptor towards Christ, that we might be justified from faith.

And these were some of you: but ye were washed, but ye were consecrated, but ye were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

Therefore as by the fall of one for all men to condemnation; so also by the justification of one for all men to justification of life.

A cloud and darkness round about him: justice and judgment the preparing of his throne.

Jehovah is just in all his ways, and merciful in all his works.

O Jehovah God of Israel, thou art just: for we remained an escaping as this day: behold us before thee in our guilts; for not to stand before thee for

According to thy name, O God, so thy praise upon the ends of the earth: thy right hand being full of justice.

Wonderful things in justice thou wilt answer us, O God saving us, the trust of all the ends of the earth, and those being far off upon the sea:

Rejoicing, I will rejoice in Jehovah, my soul shall exult in my God, for he put upon me the garments of salvation, and he clothed me with a robe of justice, as a bridegroom will be a priest with a turban, and as a bride will be adorned with her dress.

I put on justice and it will clothe me: my judgment as an upper garment and a turban.

And I will put upon her priests salvation, and her godly ones shall rejoice a rejoicing.

Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O Zion; put on the garments of thy glory, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for the uncircumcised shall no more add to come into thee, and the unclean.

And he will answer and say to them standing before him, saying, Remove the filthy garments from off him, And he will say to him, See, I caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and clothed thee with festive garments.

Thou lovedst justice, and thou wilt hate injustice: for this, God thy God anointed thee with the oil of joy above thy companions.

And he will see that not a man, and he will be astonished that none was supplicating: and his arm will save for him, and his justice it upheld him.

Behold the days coming, says Jehovah, and I raised up to David a just sprout, and a king reigned and prospered, and he did judgment and justice in the earth.

And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he sitting upon him called Faithful and True, and in justice he judges and makes war.

And justice was the girding of his loins, and truth the girding of his loins.

A man shall not be prepared by injustice: and the root of the Just shall not be moved.

Cast thy giving upon Jehovah and he will sustain thee: he will not give forever a wavering to the just one.

He going blameless, and working justice, and speaking truth in his heart.

The just one shall not be moved forever: and the unjust shall not inhabit the earth.

And he sat melting and cleansing silver: and he cleansed the sons of Levi, and he purified them as gold and as silver, and they were to Jehovah bringing near the sacrifice in justice.

Then wilt thou delight in sacrifices of justice, in burnt-offering and whole burnt-offering: then they will bring up bullocks upon thine altar.

They shall call the peoples to the mountain; there they shall sacrifice sacrifices of justice, for they shall suck the abundance of the sea, and the bidden things hid in the sand.

Sacrifice ye the sacrifices of justice, and trust to Jehovah.

And he judged the powerless with justice, and he decided in straightness for the humble of the earth: and he struck the earth with the rod of his mouth, and by the spirit of his lips he will slay the unjust.

Wherefore he set a day, in which he is about to judge the habitable globe in justice by the man whom he appointed; having offered faith to all, having raised him from the dead.

And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he sitting upon him called Faithful and True, and in justice he judges and makes war.

He shall judge thy people in justice, and thy poor in judgment.

For the eyes of the Lord upon the just, and his ears to their prayer: and the face of the Lord against them doing evil.

The eyes of Jehovah upon the just, and his ears to their cries.

He will not take off his eyes from the just: and with kings upon the throne, and he will seat them for glory, and they shall be exalted.

Jehovah will not cause the soul of the just one to hunger: and he will thrust away the desire of the unjust

And they were both just before God, going faultless in all the commands and precepts of the Lord.

For Moses writes the justice of the law, That the man having done these things shall live in them.

But his delight is in the law of Jehovah, and in his law he will meditate day and night

And it shall be justice to us when we shall watch to do all these commands before Jehovah our God as he commanded us.

For him not knowing sin, he made sin for us; that we might be the justice of God in him.

Every vessel formed against thee shall not prosper: and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This the inheritance of the servants of Jehovah, and their justice is from me, says Jehovah.

Surely saying, In Jehovah to me justice and strength: even to him shall he come; and all being angry against him shall be ashamed.

And judgment dwelling in the desert, and justice shall sit in Carmel.

Drop, ye heavens, from above, and the clouds shall shake out justice: the earth shall open, and they shall bring forth salvation, and justice shall spring up together; I Jehovah created it

For as the earth will bring forth her sprout, and as a garden will cause the things sown to sprout, so the Lord Jehovah will cause justice and praise to sprout before all nations. For sake of Zion I will not be silent, and for sake of Jerusalem I will not rest till its justice shall go forth as brightness, and her salvation as a flame shall burn.

He scattered, he gave to the needy; his justice stands forever; his horn shall be exalted in glory.

(As has been written, He scattered; he gave to the poor: his justice remains forever.

Wealth and riches in his house, and his justice stands forever.

For the eyes of the Lord upon the just, and his ears to their prayer: and the face of the Lord against them doing evil.

They cried and Jehovah heard, and he delivered them from all their straits.

Jehovah is far off from the unjust: and he will hear the prayer of the just

Not of works in justice which we did; but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and the renovation of the Holy Spirit;

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and this not of you: the gift of God: Not of works, lest any one should boast.

Who having saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, given us in Christ Jesus before eternal times,

So that all the just blood shed upon the earth might come upon you, from the blood of just Abel to the blood of Zacharias, son of Barachias, whom ye killed between the temple and altar.

Not as Cain was of the evil one, and slew his brother. And for what slew he him? Because his works were evil, and those of his brother just.

The unjust watches for the just, and seeks to kill him,

I am the vine, ye the branches: he remaining in me, and I in him, he bears much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

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 now freed from sin, and subdued to God, ye have your fruit to consecration, and the end life eternal.

And now he furnishing seed to him sowing, and bread for food, furnish and multiply your sowing-season, and increase the fruits of your justice;)

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

And to the Son, Thy throne, O God, for the time of time: a rod of uprightness the rod of thy kingdom.

Thy throne, O God, forever and ever: a rod of straightness the rod of thy kingdom.

Behold, a king shall reign for justice, and for chiefs they shall rule for judgment

For not by the law, the promise to Abraham, or to his seed, for him to be heir of the world, but by the justice of faith.

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

This happiness then upon circumcision, or upon uncircumcision? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for justice.

And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the justice of the faith which in uncircumcision: for him to be father of all believing through uncircumcision; for justice also to be reckoned to them:

And for the promise of God he was not separated by unbelief; but was strengthened in faith, having given glory to God;

What is man that he will be clean? and that he will be just, being born of woman?

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

All turned away together, they were corrupted: none doing good, not even one.

But to them of intrigue, and are truly disobedient to the truth, and yielding to injustice, anger and wrath,

That all might be judged not believing the truth but contented in iniquity.

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.) Therefore as by the fall of one for all men to condemnation; so also by the justification of one for all men to justification of life. For as by one man's disobedience many were constituted sinful, so also by the obedience of one shall many be constituted just.

In which will we are consecrated by the bringing in of the body of Jesus Christ once. And truly every priest has stood daily, serving and bringing in many times the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: But this, having brought in one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God; read more.
As to the rest, awaiting till his enemies be put a footstool of his feet. For by one offering has he perfected forever the consecrated.

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

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

For this I say to you, Be not anxious about your soul, what ye eat, and what ye drink; nor about your body, what ye put on. Is not the soul more than food, and the body than dress? Look ye upon the fowls of heaven; for they neither sow, nor reap, nor collect into stores; and your heavenly Father nourishes them. Do ye not rather differ from them Which of you, being anxious, can add one cubit to his size? read more.
And about dress, why are ye anxious? Consider the white lilies of the field, how they grow; they are not wearied, neither do they spin: And I say to you that neither Solomon in all his glory was surrounded as one of these. And if the grass of the field, being this day, and to morrow cast into the furnace, God so clothes much rather you, ye of little faith! Therefore be ye not anxious, saying: What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, What shall we put round us? For all these the nations seek for; for your heavenly Father knows that ye have need of all these. But seek first the kingdom of God and his justice, and all these shall be added to you.

The just one ate to fill his soul: and the belly of the unjust shall want

And thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow justice, devotion, faith, love, patience, meekness.

And flee youthful, eager desires: and follow justice, faith, love, peace, with them calling upon the Lord from a pure heart.

I put not away the grace of God for if justice through the law, Christ died in vain.

The law then against the promises of God? It may not be: for if a law had been given able to make alive, truly justice would be by the law.

So justice to life, and he pursuing evil, to his death.

In the way of justice is life; and the way of its beaten path not death.

The purposes of the just are judgment: the guidance of the unjust, deceit

The desire of the just is only good: the expectation of the unjust, wrath.

The lips of falsehood shall be mute; speaking boldly in pride and contempt.

And they coming near, blasphemed him, shaking their heads, And saying, He loosing the temple, and building in three days, save thyself: if thou art the Son of God, come down from the cross. And likewise also the chief priests mocking, with the scribes and elders, said, read more.
Others he saved; himself he cannot save. If he is King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him: He trusted upon God; let him now deliver him, if he desires him: for he said, That I am the Son of God. And the robbers crucified with him, reproached him with the same.

An abomination of kings to do injustice: for in justice shall the throne be prepared.

Take ye away the unjust one from before the king, and his throne shall be prepared in justice.

The justice of the blameless shall make straight his way, and in his injustice the unjust shall fall.

Justice will guard the blameless of way: and injustice shall overthrow the sinning.

Hear to me, ye strong of heart, being far from justice.

They drew near pursuing mischief: they removed far off from thy law.

Therefore from the works of the law shall no flesh be justified before him: for by the law the knowledge of sin.

And Israel following the law of justice, reached not the law of justice. Wherefore? Because not of faith, but as of the works of the law. For they stumbled at the stumblingstone;

The unjust one did a work of falsehood: and the seed of justice the reward of truth.

Say to the just, that it is good that they shall eat the fruit of their doings.

Many the evils of the just one, and Jehovah will deliver him from all of them.

The just one was delivered from straits, and the unjust will come in his stead.

To the holy ones that are upon the earth, they and the mighty ones, all my delight is in them.

The just excelled above his neighbor: and the way of the unjust shall lead them astray.

The secret of Jehovah to them fearing him; and his covenant he will cause them to know.

For the perverse is an abomination of Jehovah: and his intercourse with the upright

Jehovah opened the eyes of the blind: Jehovah raised those being bowed down: Jehovah loved the just

The way of the unjust an abomination of Jehovah: and he will love him pursuing justice.

The house of the just much treasure: and in the increase of the unjust the being troubled.

Wealth and riches in his house, and his justice stands forever.

Shall the unjust be shown favor? He learnt not justice; in the land of justice he will act perversely, and he will not see the majesty of Jehovah.

Many times he will deliver them, and they will embitter with their counsel, and they will be brought low in their iniquity.

Far be it with respect to thee doing as this word to kill the just with the wicked; and for the just to be as the wicked, far be it with respect to thee: shall not the judge of all the earth do judgment?

For this, the unjust shall not rise up in judgment, and the sinful in the assembly of the just For Jehovah shall know the way of the just: but the way of the unjust shall perish.

In his days shall Judah be saved, and Israel shall dwell with confidence: and this his name which he shall be called: Jehovah Our Justice.

And the king's strength loved judgment; thou didst prepare uprightnesses, thou didst judgment and justice in Jacob.

To set to those mourning in Zion, to give to them adorning instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, the vestment of praise for the spirit of faintness; and it shall be called to them, The mighty trees of justice of the planting of Jehovah, to be honored.

And thy people all of them just: forever shall they inherit the land, watching his planting, the work of my hand for glory.

Know ye not, that to whom ye present yourselves servants for obedience, ye are servants to whom ye listen; either of sin to death, or of obedience to justice?

And freed from sin, ye were subdued to justice.

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.

Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and eager worldly desires, we should live discreetly, and justly, and religiously, in the time now;

And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the justice of the faith which in uncircumcision: for him to be father of all believing through uncircumcision; for justice also to be reckoned to them:

And therefore it was reckoned to him for justice.

Thou lovedst justice, and thou wilt hate injustice: for this, God thy God anointed thee with the oil of joy above thy companions.

Thou hast loved justice, and hated iniquity; for this God anointed thee, thy God, with the oil of lively joy above thy partakers.

Little children, let none deceive you: he doing justice is just, as he is just.

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

Then wilt thou delight in sacrifices of justice, in burnt-offering and whole burnt-offering: then they will bring up bullocks upon thine altar.

Sacrifice ye the sacrifices of justice, and trust to Jehovah.

I put on justice and it will clothe me: my judgment as an upper garment and a turban.

And the king, having come in to behold the reclining, saw there a man not clad with the garment of the wedding: And he says to him, Friend, how camest thou in here, not having a garment of the nuptial feast? And he was muzzled. Then said the king to his servants, Having bound his feet and hands, take him away, and cast ye him into outer darkness; weeping shall be there, and gnashing of teeth. read more.
For many are called, and few chosen.

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

For not knowing the justice of God, and seeking to establish their own justice, they have not been subjected to the justice of God.

Acknowledge your faults to one another, and pray for one another, that ye might be healed. The prayer of the just, being energetic, is very powerful.

And shall not God do the avenging of his chosen, crying to him day and night, being slow to anger toward them?

The words of his mouth vanity and deceit: he ceased to be circumspect, to do good.

Turning judgment to wormwood and they put down justice in the earth.

Recover your senses rightly, and in not; for some have a want of knowledge of God: I speak to your confusion.

Recover your senses rightly, and in not; for some have a want of knowledge of God: I speak to your confusion.

And ye are of him in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and also justice, and consecration, and holiness:

And it shall be justice to us when we shall watch to do all these commands before Jehovah our God as he commanded us.

He shall pray to God and he shall receive him into favor: and he shall see his face with rejoicing, and he will turn back to man his justice.

And upon the torrent shall come up upon its lip, from hence and from thence, every tree of food, its leaf shall not fade, and its fruit shall not be consumed: for its months it shall bear early fruit, for its waters from the holy place they come forth: and its fruits were for food and its leaf for medicine.

In the midst of her broad way and of the river, hence and thence, the tree of life, making twelve fruits, in a month each one returning its fruit: and the leaves of the tree for the cure of the nations.

Be not unequally yoked together with the unbelieving: for what participation to justice and iniquity and what communion to light with darkness?

In the word of truth, in the power of God, through the weapons of justice of the right hands and the left,

And the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such is no law.

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. 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,

He going in justice and speaking uprightness, rejecting in the plunder of oppression; shaking his hands from holding upon a gift, shutting his ear from the hearing of bloods, and binding up his eyes from looking upon evil; He shall dwell upon heights: the strongholds of rocks his height: his bread was given; his waters sure.

Not for thy justice and for the straightness of thy heart thou goest in to possess this land, but for the injustice of these nations Jehovah thy God dispossesses them from before thee, and order to lift up the word which he sware to thy fathers, to Abraham and to Isaak and to Jacob.

Ye shall not do evil in judgment; thou shalt not take up the face of the poor; thou shalt not reverence the face of the great: in justice shalt thou judge thy neighbor.

He pursuing justice and mercy shall find life, justice and honor.

The fear of the unjust one it shall come to him: and the desire of the just shall be given.

He trusting in his riches himself shall fall: and the just shall flourish as the foliage.

Jehovah will recompense me according to my justice: According to the cleanness of my hands he turned back to me.

Those being planted in the house of Jehovah, shall flourish in the enclosures of our God. They shall yet sprout in old as; they shall be fat and green.

Stand therefore, having girded your loins around with truth, and put on the armor of justice;

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

Old age a crown of glorying, shall be found in the way of justice.

All writing divinely inspired, and profitable for doctrine, for refutation, for correction, for instruction in justice:

Justice will exalt a nation: and sin a reproach to nations.

And upon the torrent shall come up upon its lip, from hence and from thence, every tree of food, its leaf shall not fade, and its fruit shall not be consumed: for its months it shall bear early fruit, for its waters from the holy place they come forth: and its fruits were for food and its leaf for medicine.

But he having sown upon good earth is he hearing the word, and understanding; who indeed bears fruit, and who makes truly a hundred, and who sixty, and who thirty.

The unjust fled and none pursuing, and the just shall be confident as the young lion.

And my justice shall speak for me in the day tomorrow, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one which is not speckled and patched among the she-goats and black among the lambs, that to be stolen with me.

Who divided out the dust of Jacob and who numbered the fourth of Israel? My soul shall die the death of the just, and my latter state shall be as his.

As to the rest, the crown of justice is laid up for me, which the Lord will assign to me in that day, the just judge: and not only to me, but also to all them having loved his appearance.

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

Who by faith subdued kingdoms, wrought justice, attained the promises, shut up the mouths of lions,

Seek Jehovah, all ye humble of the earth, who did his judgment; seek justice, seek humility: perhaps ye shall be covered in the day of the anger of Jehovah.

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

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.

Happy they driven out for justice: for their's is the kingdom of the heavens.

But if ye also suffer for justice, happy are ye: be not afraid of their fear, neither be troubled;

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.

And others fell upon good earth and gave fruit, some truly a hundred, and some sixty, and some thirty.

Rejoicing, I will rejoice in Jehovah, my soul shall exult in my God, for he put upon me the garments of salvation, and he clothed me with a robe of justice, as a bridegroom will be a priest with a turban, and as a bride will be adorned with her dress.

And he will put on justice as a coat of mail, and a helmet of salvation upon his head; and be will put on robes of vengeance a garment, and he will clothe himself with zeal as an upper garment

And he will see that not a man, and he will be astonished that none was supplicating: and his arm will save for him, and his justice it upheld him.

And Jesus having answered said to him, Permit now; for so it is suitable for us to complete all justice: then he permitted him.

And the work of justice was peace, and the service of justice, rest and confidence, even to forever.

And the work of justice was peace, and the service of justice, rest and confidence, even to forever.

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

I was a youth, also I grew old, and I saw not the just one forsaken and his seed seeking bread.

For he shall not be moved forever: the just one shall be for eternal remembrance.

And spared not the old world, but Noah the eighth, a herald of justice, he watched, having brought an inundation upon the world of the irreligious;

Thy priests shall put on justice, and thy godly ones shall rejoice.

Happy they hungering and thirsting for Justice: for they shall be filled.

And those understanding shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and those justifying many, as the stars forever and ever.

Happy they watching judgment, doing justice in all time.

Wherefore, O king, my counsel shall be pleasant to thee, and break off thy sins by justice, and thine iniquities in compassionating the poor; if it shall be a lengthening to thy peace.

Sow to yourselves for justice, reap ye for the mouth of kindness; break up to you the fallow ground: and the time to seek Jehovah till he shall come and cast justice upon you.

Hear this, ye house of Jacob, being called by the name of Israel, and from the water of Judah they came forth swearing by the name of Jehovah, and by the God of Israel they shall bring to remembrance, not in truth and not in justice.

Evil shall slay the unjust one: and they hating the just one shall transgress.

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

For when ye were servants to sin, ye were free to justice.

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.

(I speak as man through the weakness of your flesh:) for as ye presented your members to uncleanness and iniquity; so now present ye your members servants to justice for consecration.

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.