Righteousness (3/5)

There is a way which seems right to a man, but in… Proverbs 14:12

There is a way which seems right to a man,
but in the end it leads to death.
Proverbs 14:12 life sin thoughts
For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.
Hebrews 6:10 work serving

In you, Yahweh, I take refuge.
Let me never be disappointed.
Deliver me in your righteousness.
Psalm 31:1 redeemer dependence
But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Matthew 9:13 mercy sacrifice repentance
The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable,
but the mouth of the wicked is perverse.
Proverbs 10:32 truth speaking lying
I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh!
My soul will be joyful in my God,
for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation.
He has covered me with the robe of righteousness,
as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland
and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
Isaiah 61:10 joy redeemer marriage
He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.
1 Peter 2:24 sin healing body
Thus has Yahweh of Armies spoken, saying, ‘Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother. Don’t oppress the widow, the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’
Zechariah 7:9-10 evil neighbor gentleness
Don’t envy the man of violence.
Choose none of his ways.
For the perverse is an abomination to Yahweh,
but his friendship is with the upright.
Proverbs 3:31-32 trust planning
“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are expedient. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be brought under the power of anything.
1 Corinthians 6:12 addiction desires life
Yahweh is righteous in all his ways,
and gracious in all his works.
Psalm 145:17 reliability goodness faithfulness
Hear my prayer, Yahweh.
Listen to my petitions.
In your faithfulness and righteousness, relieve me.
Psalm 143:1 reliability prayer faithfulness
Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Romans 5:1 faith peace
You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill can’t be hidden.
Matthew 5:14 evangelism life light
Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless.
Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.
Psalm 82:3 orphans neighbor weakness
But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out and leap like calves of the stall.
Malachi 4:2 joy healing awe
For as through the one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one, many will be made righteous.
Romans 5:19 obedience salvation
Therefore Yahweh will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for Yahweh is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.
Isaiah 30:18 grace patience compassion
I don’t reject the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!
Galatians 2:21 grace law Jesus
It shall be righteousness to us, if we observe to do all these commandments before Yahweh our God, as he has commanded us.
Deuteronomy 6:25 obedience law
But he who didn’t know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To whomever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be asked.
Luke 12:48 obedience punishment
Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.
1 John 3:4 sin law
Who is wise, that he may understand these things?
Who is prudent, that he may know them?
For the ways of Yahweh are right,
and the righteous walk in them,
but the rebellious stumble in them.
Hosea 14:9 wisdom understanding
With my soul I have desired you in the night.
Yes, with my spirit within me I will seek you earnestly;
for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
Isaiah 26:9 judgment learning
We, being Jews by nature and not Gentile sinners, yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.
Galatians 2:15-16 faith law