35 Bible Verses about Righteousness

he who says he 'remains in him' ought to live as he lived.

Nor is the free gift like the effect of the one man's sin; for while the sentence ensuing on a single sin resulted in doom, the free gift ensuing on many trespasses issues in acquittal. For if the trespass of one man allowed death to reign through that one man, much more shall those who receive the overflowing grace and free gift of righteousness reign in life through One, through Jesus Christ.

for it is by faith that 'we' wait in the Spirit for the righteousness we hope for;

This is the God to whom you owe your being in Christ Jesus, whom God has made our 'Wisdom,' that is, our righteousness and consecration and redemption;

As you know he is just, be sure that everyone who practises righteousness is born of him.

So confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed; the prayers of the righteous have a powerful effect.

Then the just will shine like the sun in the Realm of their Father. He who has an ear, let him listen to this.

They were both just in the sight of God, blameless in their obedience to all the commands and regulations of God;

Hence I too endeavour to have a clear conscience before God and men all the time.

and having been a widow for eighty-four years. She was never away from the temple; night and day she worshipped, fasting and praying.

Hold your ground, tighten the belt of truth about your loins, wear integrity as your coat of mail,

Shun that, O man of God, aim at integrity, piety, faith, love, stedfastness, and suavity;

but when he argued about morality, self-mastery, and the future judgment, Felix grew uneasy. "You may go for the present," he said; "when I can find a moment, I will send for you"

As we are justified by faith, then, let us enjoy the peace we have with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

the Law thus held us as wards in discipline, till such time as Christ came, that we might be justified by faith.

Some of you were once like that; but you washed yourselves clean, you were consecrated, you were justified in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

Well then, as one man's trespass issued in doom for all, so one man's act of redress issues in acquittal and life for all.

Then I saw heaven open wide ??and there was a white horse: his rider is faithful and true, yea, just are his judgments and his warfare.

inasmuch as he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world justly by a man whom he has destined for this. And he has given proof of this to all by raising him from the dead."

Then I saw heaven open wide ??and there was a white horse: his rider is faithful and true, yea, just are his judgments and his warfare.

For the eyes of the Lord are on the upright, and his ears are open to their cry; but the face of the Lord is set against wrongdoers.

They were both just in the sight of God, blameless in their obedience to all the commands and regulations of God;

Moses writes of law-righteousness, Anyone who can perform it, shall live by it.

For our sakes He made him to be sin who himself knew nothing of sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

as it is written, He scatters his gifts to the poor broadcast, his charity lasts for ever.

For the eyes of the Lord are on the upright, and his ears are open to their cry; but the face of the Lord is set against wrongdoers.

and he saved us, not for anything we had done but from his own pity for us, by the water that means regeneration and renewal under the holy Spirit

For it is by grace you have been saved, as you had faith; it is not your doing but God's gift, not the outcome of what you have done ??lest anyone should pride himself on that;

who has saved us and called us to a life of consecration ??not for anything we have done but because he chose to do it himself, by the grace which he gave us ages ago in Christ Jesus

it is that on you may fall the punishment for all the just blood shed on earth from the blood of Abel the just down to the blood of Zechariah the son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.

we are not to be like Cain, who belonged to the evil One and slew his brother. And why did he slay him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother's just.

I am the vine, you are the branches. He who remains in me, as I in him, bears rich fruit (because apart from me you can do nothing).

Discipline always seems for the time to be a thing of pain, not of joy; but those who are trained by it reap the fruit of it afterwards in the peace of an upright life.

but now that you are set free from sin, now that you have passed into the service of God, your gain is consecration, and the end of that is life eternal.

He who furnishes the sower with seed and with bread to eat will supply seed for you and multiply it; he will increase the crop of your charities ??11 you will be enriched on all hands, so that you can be generous on all occasions, and your generosity, of which I am the agent, will make men give thanks to God;

your life covered with that harvest of righteousness which Jesus Christ produces to the glory and the praise of God.

he says of the Son, 'God is thy throne for ever and ever, thy royal sceptre is the sceptre of equity:

The promise made to Abraham and his offspring that he should inherit the world, did not reach him through the Law, but through the righteousness of faith.

Now is that description of bliss meant for the circumcised, or for the uncircumcised as well? Abraham's faith, I repeat, was counted to him as righteousness.

He only got circumcision as a sign or seal of the righteousness which belonged to his faith as an uncircumcised man. The object of this was to make him the father of all who believe as uncircumcised persons and thus have righteousness counted to them,

no unbelief made him waver about God's promise; his faith won strength as he gave glory to God

but anger and wrath to those who are wilful, who disobey the Truth and obey wickedness ??9 anguish and calamity for every human soul that perpetrates evil, for the Jew first and for the Greek as well,

so that all may be doomed who refuse faith in the Truth but delight in evil.

For if the trespass of one man allowed death to reign through that one man, much more shall those who receive the overflowing grace and free gift of righteousness reign in life through One, through Jesus Christ. Well then, as one man's trespass issued in doom for all, so one man's act of redress issues in acquittal and life for all. Just as one man's disobedience made all the rest sinners, so one man's obedience will make all the rest righteous.

And it is by this will that we are consecrated, because Jesus Christ once for all has offered up his body. Again, while every priest stands daily at his service, offering the same sacrifices repeatedly, sacrifices which never can take sins away ??12 He offered a single sacrifice for sins and then seated himself for all time at the right hand of God, to wait until his enemies are made a footstool for his feet. read more.
For by a single offering he has made the sanctified perfect for all time.

your life covered with that harvest of righteousness which Jesus Christ produces to the glory and the praise of God.

(for the fruit of light consists in all that is good and right and true),

Therefore I tell you, do not trouble about what you are to eat or drink in life, nor about what you are to put on your body; surely life means more than food, surely the body means more than clothes! Look at the wild birds; they sow not, they reap not, they gather nothing in granaries, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth more than birds? Which of you can add an ell to his height by troubling about it? read more.
And why should you trouble over clothing? Look how the lilies of the field grow; they neither toil nor spin, and yet, I tell you, even Solomon in all his grandeur was never robed like one of them. Now if God so clothes the grass of the field which blooms to-day and is thrown to-morrow into the furnace, will not he much more clothe you? O men, how little you trust him! Do not be troubled, then, and cry, 'What are we to eat?' or 'what are we to drink?' or 'how are we to be clothed?' (pagans make all that their aim in life) for your heavenly Father knows quite well you need all that. Seek God's Realm and his goodness, and all that will be yours over and above.

Shun that, O man of God, aim at integrity, piety, faith, love, stedfastness, and suavity;

So shun the lusts of youth and aim at integrity, faith, love and peace, in the company of those who invoke the Lord out of a pure heart.

I do not annul God's grace; but if righteousness comes by way of the Law, then indeed Christ's death was useless.

Then the Law is contrary to God's Promises? Never! Had there been any law which had the power of producing life, righteousness would really have been due to law,

Those who passed by scoffed at him, nodding at him in derision and calling, "You were to destroy the temple and build it in three days! Save yourself, if you are God's Son! Come down from the cross!" So, too, the high priests made fun of him with the scribes and the elders of the people. read more.
"He saved others," they said, "but he cannot save himself! He the 'king of Israel'! Let him come down now from the cross; then we will believe in him! His trust is in God? Let God deliver him now if he cares for him! He said he was the Son of God!" The robbers who were crucified with him also denounced him in the same way.

for no person will be acquitted in his sight on the score of obedience to law. What the Law imparts is the consciousness of sin.

whereas Israel who did aim at the law of righteousness have failed to reach that law. And why? Simply because Israel has relied not on faith but on what they could do. They have stumbled over the stone that makes men stumble ??33 as it is written, Here I lay a stone in Sion that will make men stumble, even a rock to trip them up; but he who believes in Him will never be disappointed.

Do you not know you are the servants of the master you obey, of the master to whom you yield yourselves obedient, whether it is Sin, whose service ends in death, or Obedience, whose service ends in righteousness?

set free from sin, you have passed into the service of righteousness.

he bore our sins in his own body on the gibbet, that we might break with sin and live for righteousness; and by his wounds you have been healed.

and it schools us to renounce irreligion and worldly passions and to live a life of self-mastery, of integrity, and of piety in this present world,

He only got circumcision as a sign or seal of the righteousness which belonged to his faith as an uncircumcised man. The object of this was to make him the father of all who believe as uncircumcised persons and thus have righteousness counted to them,

Hence his faith was counted to him as righteousness.

thou hast loved justice and hated lawlessness, therefore God, thy God, has consecrated thee with the oil of rejoicing beyond thy comrades' ??10 and, 'Thou didst found the earth at the beginning, O Lord, and the heavens are the work at thy hands;

Let no one deceive you, my dear children: he who practises righteousness is just, as He is just;

As you know he is just, be sure that everyone who practises righteousness is born of him.

Now when the king came in to view his guests, he saw a man there who was not dressed in a wedding-robe. So he said to him, 'My man, how did you get in here without a wedding-robe?' The man was speech less. Then said the king to his servants, 'Take him hand and foot, and throw him outside, out into the darkness; there men will wail and gnash their teeth. read more.
For many are invited but few are chosen.'"

He also told the following parable to certain persons who were sure of their own goodness and looked down upon everybody else.

They would not surrender to the righteousness of God, because they were ignorant of his righteousness and therefore essayed to set up a righteousness of their own.

So confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed; the prayers of the righteous have a powerful effect.

And will not God see justice done to his elect who cry to him by day and night? Will he be tolerant to their opponents?

Get back to your sober senses and avoid sin, for some of you ??and I say this to your shame ??some of you are insensible to God.

Get back to your sober senses and avoid sin, for some of you ??and I say this to your shame ??some of you are insensible to God.

This is the God to whom you owe your being in Christ Jesus, whom God has made our 'Wisdom,' that is, our righteousness and consecration and redemption;

through the streets of the City; on both sides of the river grew the tree of Life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit, each month having its own fruit; and the leaves served to heal the nations.

[Keep out of all incongruous ties with unbelievers. What have righteousness and iniquity in common, or how can light associate with darkness?

true words, the power of God; with the weapons of integrity for attack or for defence,

But the harvest of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, good temper, kindliness, generosity, fidelity, gentleness, self-control: ??there is no law against those who practise such things.

in point of ardour a persecutor of the church, immaculate by the standard of legal righteousness. But for Christ's sake I have learned to count my former gains a loss; indeed I count anything a loss, compared to the supreme value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have lost everything (I count it all the veriest refuse) in order to gain Christ

Hold your ground, tighten the belt of truth about your loins, wear integrity as your coat of mail,

putting on the new nature, that divine pattern which has been created in the upright and pious character of the Truth.

All scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for amendment, and for moral discipline,

As for him who is sown 'on good soil,' that is the man who hears the word and understands it; he bears fruit, producing now a hundredfold, now sixty, and now thirtyfold."

Now the crown of a good life awaits me, with which the Lord, that just Judge, will reward me on the great Day ??and not only me but all who have loved and longed for his appearance.

for it is by faith that 'we' wait in the Spirit for the righteousness we hope for;

(for the fruit of light consists in all that is good and right and true),

Discipline always seems for the time to be a thing of pain, not of joy; but those who are trained by it reap the fruit of it afterwards in the peace of an upright life.

Blessed are those who have been persecuted for the sake of goodness! the Realm of heaven is theirs.

Even supposing you have to suffer for the sake of what is right, still you are blessed. Have no fear of their threats, do not let that trouble you,

It was by faith that Abel offered God a richer sacrifice than Cain did, and thus won from God the record of being 'just,' on the score of what he gave; he died, but by his faith he is speaking to us still.

Some other seeds fell on good soil and bore a crop, some a hundredfold, some sixty, and some thirtyfold.

But Jesus answered him, "Come now, this is how we should fulfil all our duty to God." Then John gave in to him.

The Reign of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, it means righteousness, peace, and joy in the holy Spirit;

if he did not spare the ancient world but kept Noah, the herald of righteousness, safe with seven others, when he let loose the deluge on the world of impious men:

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for goodness! they will be satisfied.

What are we to conclude, then? That Gentiles who never aimed at righteousness have attained righteousness, that is, righteousness by faith;

When you served sin, you were free of righteousness.

Here is how the children of God and the children of the devil are recognized; anyone who does not practise righteousness does not belong to God, and neither does he who has no love for his brother.

(I use this human analogy to bring the truth home to your weak nature.) As you once dedicated your members to the service of vice and lawlessness, so now dedicate them to the service of righteousness that means consecration.

Now Christ is an end to law, so as to let every believer have righteousness.

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for goodness! they will be satisfied.

you must not let sin have your members for the service of vice, you must dedicate yourselves to God as men who have been brought from death to life, dedicating your members to God for the service of righteousness.