'Righteousness' in the Bible

{To the chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A Psalm of David.} When I call, answer me, O God of my righteousness: in pressure thou hast enlarged me; be gracious unto me, and hear my prayer.

Offer sacrifices of righteousness, and confide in Jehovah.

Lead me, Jehovah, in thy righteousness, because of my foes; make thy way plain before me.

Jehovah shall minister judgment to the peoples. Judge me, Jehovah, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity which is in me.

I will praise Jehovah according to his righteousness, and will sing forth the name of Jehovah the Most High.

And it is he that will judge the world with righteousness; he shall execute judgment upon the peoples with equity.

For righteous is Jehovah; he loveth righteousness, his countenance doth behold the upright.

He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth from his heart.

As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness; I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.

Jehovah hath rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.

And Jehovah hath recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight.

They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done it.

He restoreth my soul; he leadeth me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake.

He shall receive blessing from Jehovah, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.

{To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.} In thee, Jehovah, do I trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness.

He loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the loving-kindness of Jehovah.

Judge me, Jehovah my God, according to thy righteousness, and let them not rejoice over me.

Let them exult and rejoice that delight in my righteousness; and let them say continually, Jehovah be magnified, who delighteth in the prosperity of his servant.

And my tongue shall talk of thy righteousness, and of thy praise, all the day.

Thy righteousness is like the high mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: thou, Jehovah, preservest man and beast.

Continue thy loving-kindness unto them that know thee, and thy righteousness to the upright in heart;

and he will bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.

I have published righteousness in the great congregation: behold, I have not withheld my lips, Jehovah, thou knowest.

I have not hidden thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy loving-kindness and thy truth from the great congregation.

And in thy splendour ride prosperously, because of truth and meekness and righteousness: and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.

Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated wickedness; therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy companions.

According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness.

And the heavens shall declare his righteousness; for God executeth judgment himself. Selah.

Deliver me from blood-guiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.

Then shalt thou have sacrifices of righteousness, burnt-offering, and whole burnt-offering; then shall they offer up bullocks upon thine altar.

Thou hast loved evil rather than good, lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.

{To the chief Musician. 'Destroy not.' Of David. Michtam.} Is righteousness indeed silent? Do ye speak it? Do ye judge with equity, ye sons of men?

By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation, thou confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of the distant regions of the sea. ...

Add iniquity unto their iniquity, and let them not come into thy righteousness.

Deliver me in thy righteousness, and rescue me; incline thine ear unto me, and save me.

My mouth shall declare thy righteousness, and thy salvation all the day: for I know not the numbers thereof.

I will go in the might of the Lord Jehovah; I will recall thy righteousness, thine alone.

And thy righteousness, O God, reacheth on high, thou who hast done great things: O God, who is like unto thee?

My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day; for they shall be ashamed, for they shall be brought to confusion, that seek my hurt.

{For Solomon.} O God, give the king thy judgments, and thy righteousness unto the king's son.

He will judge thy people with righteousness, and thine afflicted with judgment.

The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the hills, by righteousness.

Loving-kindness and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other:

Truth shall spring out of the earth, and righteousness shall look down from the heavens.

Righteousness shall go before him, and shall set his footsteps on the way.

Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

Righteousness and judgment are the foundation of thy throne; loving-kindness and truth go before thy face.

In thy name are they joyful all the day, and in thy righteousness are they exalted.

For judgment shall return unto righteousness, and all the upright in heart shall follow it.

Before Jehovah, for he cometh; for he cometh to judge the earth: he will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples in his faithfulness.

Clouds and darkness are round about him; righteousness and judgment are the foundation of his throne.

The heavens declare his righteousness, and all the peoples see his glory.

Jehovah hath made known his salvation: his righteousness hath he openly shewed in the sight of the nations.

Before Jehovah, for he cometh to judge the earth: he will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity.

And the strength of the king that loveth justice. Thou hast established equity: it is thou that executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob.

Jehovah executeth righteousness and justice for all that are oppressed.

But the loving-kindness of Jehovah is from everlasting and to everlasting, upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's children,

Blessed are they that keep justice, and he that doeth righteousness at all times.

And that was reckoned unto him for righteousness, from generation to generation, for evermore.

His work is majesty and splendour, and his righteousness abideth for ever.

Wealth and riches shall be in his house; and his righteousness abideth for ever.

He scattereth abroad, he giveth to the needy; his righteousness abideth for ever: his horn shall be exalted with honour.

Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will enter into them; Jah will I praise.

Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.

I know, Jehovah, that thy Judgments are righteousness, and that in faithfulness thou hast afflicted me.

Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of thy righteousness.

Thou hast commanded thy testimonies in righteousness and exceeding faithfulness.

Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is truth.

The righteousness of thy testimonies is for ever: give me understanding, and I shall live.

My tongue shall speak aloud of thy word; for all thy commandments are righteousness.

Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness, and let thy saints shout for joy.

{A Psalm of David.} Jehovah, hear my prayer; give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, in thy righteousness.

Revive me, O Jehovah, for thy name's sake; in thy righteousness bring my soul out of trouble;

They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness, and shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.