Bible Verses about 'Righteousness'
- Whoever pursues righteousness and love
finds life, prosperity and honor. - Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness.
- Righteousness exalts a nation,
but sin condemns any people. - When he comes, he will prove the world to be in the wrong about sin and righteousness and judgment.
- But let justice roll on like a river,
righteousness like a never-failing stream! - Better a little with righteousness
than much gain with injustice. - Wealth is worthless in the day of wrath,
but righteousness delivers from death. - The Lord loves righteousness and justice;
the earth is full of his unfailing love. - Ill-gotten treasures have no lasting value,
but righteousness delivers from death. - In you, Lord, I have taken refuge;
let me never be put to shame;
deliver me in your righteousness. - A wicked person earns deceptive wages,
but the one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward. - Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,
for they will be filled. - For the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth.
- Christ is the culmination of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes.
- But you, man of God, flee from all this, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance and gentleness.
- But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
- For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed—a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.”
- Lord, hear my prayer,
listen to my cry for mercy;
in your faithfulness and righteousness
come to my relief. - But now apart from the law the righteousness of God has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile.
- Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. - God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
- Then you will understand what is right and just
and fair—every good path. - Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?
- Flee the evil desires of youth and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, along with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
- But for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its rays. And you will go out and frolic like well-fed calves.
- I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!
- The Almighty is beyond our reach and exalted in power;
in his justice and great righteousness, he does not oppress. - “He himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; “by his wounds you have been healed.”
- And if we are careful to obey all this law before the Lord our God, as he has commanded us, that will be our righteousness.
- So that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
- Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness.
- Seek the Lord, all you humble of the land,
you who do what he commands.
Seek righteousness, seek humility;
perhaps you will be sheltered
on the day of the Lord’s anger. - To do what is right and just
is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice. - No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.
- My soul yearns for you in the night;
in the morning my spirit longs for you.
When your judgments come upon the earth,
the people of the world learn righteousness. - Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness.
- All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
- I delight greatly in the Lord;
my soul rejoices in my God.
For he has clothed me with garments of salvation
and arrayed me in a robe of his righteousness,
as a bridegroom adorns his head like a priest,
and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels. - I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day—and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his appearing.
- But from everlasting to everlasting
the Lord’s love is with those who fear him,
and his righteousness with their children’s children—
with those who keep his covenant
and remember to obey his precepts. - Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.
- But even if you should suffer for what is right, you are blessed. “Do not fear their threats; do not be frightened.”
- He saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.
- Commit your way to the Lord;
trust in him and he will do this:
He will make your righteous reward shine like the dawn,
your vindication like the noonday sun. - For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved.
- Then Peter began to speak: “I now realize how true it is that God does not show favoritism but accepts from every nation the one who fears him and does what is right.”
- Come back to your senses as you ought, and stop sinning; for there are some who are ignorant of God—I say this to your shame.
- The one whose walk is blameless,
who does what is righteous,
who speaks the truth from their heart;
whose tongue utters no slander,
who does no wrong to a neighbor,
and casts no slur on others. - “No weapon forged against you will prevail,
and you will refute every tongue that accuses you.
This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord,
and this is their vindication from me,”
declares the Lord. - So do not fear, for I am with you;
do not be dismayed, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you and help you;
I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth. 
