Related Verses

Here are verses that contain the word "righteousness":

Total verses with the word righteousness: 307

• genesis 15:6 - And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.
• genesis 30:33 - So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me.
• leviticus 19:15 - Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbor.
• leviticus 19:35 - Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.
• deuteronomy 6:25 - And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the LORD our God, as he hath commanded us.
• deuteronomy 9:4 - Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the LORD thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the LORD hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive them out from before thee.
• deuteronomy 9:5 - Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
• deuteronomy 9:6 - Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked people.
• deuteronomy 24:13 - In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the LORD thy God.
• deuteronomy 33:19 - They shall call the people unto the mountain; there they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness: for they shall suck of the abundance of the seas, and of treasures hid in the sand.
• 1samuel 26:23 - The LORD render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness; for the LORD delivered thee into my hand to day, but I would not stretch forth mine hand against the LORD's anointed.
• 2samuel 22:21 - The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness: according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
• 2samuel 22:25 - Therefore the LORD hath recompensed me according to my righteousness; according to my cleanness in his eye sight.
• 1kings 3:6 - And Solomon said, Thou hast showed unto thy servant David my father great mercy, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.
• 1kings 8:32 - Then hear thou in heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.
• 2chronicles 6:23 - Then hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, by requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way upon his own head; and by justifying the righteous, by giving him according to his righteousness.
• job 6:29 - Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.
• job 8:6 - If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
• job 27:6 - My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
• job 29:14 - I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.
• job 33:26 - He shall pray unto God, and he will be favourable unto him: and he shall see his face with joy: for he will render unto man his righteousness.
• job 35:2 - Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?
• job 35:8 - Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.
• job 36:3 - I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
• psalm 4:1 - Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.
• psalm 4:5 - Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the LORD.
• psalm 5:8 - Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face.
• psalm 7:8 - The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me.
• psalm 7:17 - I will praise the LORD according to his righteousness: and will sing praise to the name of the LORD most high.
• psalm 9:8 - And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.
• psalm 11:7 - For the righteous LORD loveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold the upright.
• psalm 15:2 - He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.
• psalm 17:15 - As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.
• psalm 18:20 - The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
• psalm 18:24 - Therefore hath the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
• psalm 22:31 - They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done this.
• psalm 23:3 - He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
• psalm 24:5 - He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
• psalm 31:1 - In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness.
• psalm 33:5 - He loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the goodness of the LORD.
• psalm 35:24 - Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me.
• psalm 35:28 - And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and of thy praise all the day long.
• psalm 36:6 - Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.
• psalm 36:10 - O continue thy lovingkindness unto them that know thee; and thy righteousness to the upright in heart.
• psalm 37:6 - And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.
• psalm 40:9 - I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.
• psalm 40:10 - I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.
• psalm 45:4 - And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.
• psalm 45:7 - Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
• psalm 48:10 - According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness.
• psalm 50:6 - And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah.
• psalm 51:14 - Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.
• psalm 51:19 - Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.
• psalm 52:3 - Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.
• psalm 58:1 - Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
• psalm 65:5 - By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation; who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea:
• psalm 69:27 - Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.
• psalm 71:2 - Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline thine ear unto me, and save me.
• psalm 71:15 - My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness and thy salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers thereof.
• psalm 71:16 - I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD: I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only.
• psalm 71:19 - Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high, who hast done great things: O God, who is like unto thee!
• psalm 71:24 - My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long: for they are confounded, for they are brought unto shame, that seek my hurt.
• psalm 72:1 - Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king's son.
• psalm 72:2 - He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment.
• psalm 72:3 - The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, by righteousness.
• psalm 85:10 - Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
• psalm 85:11 - Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven.
• psalm 85:13 - Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set us in the way of his steps.
• psalm 88:12 - Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
• psalm 89:16 - In thy name shall they rejoice all the day: and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted.
• psalm 92:15 - To shew that the LORD is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
• psalm 94:15 - But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it.
• psalm 96:13 - Before the LORD: for he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth.
• psalm 97:2 - Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne.
• psalm 97:6 - The heavens declare his righteousness, and all the people see his glory.
• psalm 98:2 - The LORD hath made known his salvation: his righteousness hath he openly shewed in the sight of the heathen.
• psalm 98:9 - Before the LORD; for he cometh to judge the earth: with righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity.
• psalm 99:4 - The king's strength also loveth judgment; thou dost establish equity, thou executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob.
• psalm 103:6 - The LORD executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.
• psalm 103:17 - But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's children;
• psalm 106:3 - Blessed are they that keep judgment, and he that doeth righteousness at all times.
• psalm 106:31 - And that was counted unto him for righteousness unto all generations for evermore.
• psalm 111:3 - His work is honourable and glorious: and his righteousness endureth for ever.
• psalm 112:3 - Wealth and riches shall be in his house: and his righteousness endureth for ever.
• psalm 112:9 - He hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor; his righteousness endureth for ever; his horn shall be exalted with honour.
• psalm 118:19 - Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, and I will praise the LORD:
• psalm 119:40 - Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.
• psalm 119:123 - Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of thy righteousness.
• psalm 119:142 - Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth.
• psalm 119:144 - The righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting: give me understanding, and I shall live.
• psalm 119:172 - My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments are righteousness.
• psalm 132:9 - Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness; and let thy saints shout for joy.
• psalm 143:1 - Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness.
• psalm 143:11 - Quicken me, O LORD, for thy name's sake: for thy righteousness' sake bring my soul out of trouble.
• psalm 145:7 - They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness, and shall sing of thy righteousness.
• proverbs 2:9 - Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path.
• proverbs 8:8 - All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them.
• proverbs 8:18 - Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness.
• proverbs 8:20 - I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment:
• proverbs 10:2 - Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.
• proverbs 11:4 - Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.
• proverbs 11:5 - The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
• proverbs 11:6 - The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness.
• proverbs 11:18 - The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward.
• proverbs 11:19 - As righteousness tendeth to life: so he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death.
• proverbs 12:17 - He that speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit.
• proverbs 12:28 - In the way of righteousness is life: and in the pathway thereof there is no death.
• proverbs 13:6 - Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.
• proverbs 14:34 - Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.
• proverbs 15:9 - The way of the wicked is an abomination unto the LORD: but he loveth him that followeth after righteousness.
• proverbs 16:8 - Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.
• proverbs 16:12 - It is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness: for the throne is established by righteousness.
• proverbs 16:31 - The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
• proverbs 21:21 - He that followeth after righteousness and mercy findeth life, righteousness, and honour.
• proverbs 25:5 - Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.
• ecclesiastes 3:16 - And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.
• ecclesiastes 7:15 - All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness.
• isaiah 1:21 - How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
• isaiah 1:26 - And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.
• isaiah 1:27 - Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness.
• isaiah 5:7 - For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
• isaiah 5:16 - But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.
• isaiah 5:23 - Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
• isaiah 10:22 - For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness.
• isaiah 11:4 - But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth: with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
• isaiah 11:5 - And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
• isaiah 16:5 - And in mercy shall the throne be established: and he shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness.
• isaiah 26:9 - With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
• isaiah 26:10 - Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.
• isaiah 28:17 - Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
• isaiah 32:1 - Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment.
• isaiah 32:16 - Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field.
• isaiah 32:17 - And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.
• isaiah 33:5 - The LORD is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath filled Zion with judgment and righteousness.
• isaiah 41:10 - Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
• isaiah 42:6 - I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;
• isaiah 42:21 - The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable.
• isaiah 45:8 - Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the LORD have created it.
• isaiah 45:13 - I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, saith the LORD of hosts.
• isaiah 45:19 - I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.
• isaiah 45:23 - I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.
• isaiah 45:24 - Surely, shall one say, in the LORD have I righteousness and strength: even to him shall men come; and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed.
• isaiah 46:12 - Hearken unto me, ye stouthearted, that are far from righteousness:
• isaiah 46:13 - I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not tarry: and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.
• isaiah 48:1 - Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah, which swear by the name of the LORD, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness.
• isaiah 48:18 - O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:
• isaiah 51:1 - Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.
• isaiah 51:5 - My righteousness is near; my salvation is gone forth, and mine arms shall judge the people; the isles shall wait upon me, and on mine arm shall they trust.
• isaiah 51:6 - Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
• isaiah 51:7 - Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings.
• isaiah 51:8 - For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.
• isaiah 54:14 - In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far from oppression; for thou shalt not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near thee.
• isaiah 54:17 - No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.
• isaiah 56:1 - Thus saith the LORD, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.
• isaiah 57:12 - I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee.
• isaiah 58:2 - Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.
• isaiah 58:8 - Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward.
• isaiah 59:16 - And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.
• isaiah 59:17 - For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak.
• isaiah 60:17 - For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron: I will also make thy officers peace, and thine exactors righteousness.
• isaiah 61:3 - To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.
• isaiah 61:10 - I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.
• isaiah 61:11 - For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.
• isaiah 62:1 - For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.
• isaiah 62:2 - And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the LORD shall name.
• isaiah 63:1 - Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.
• isaiah 64:5 - Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.
• isaiah 64:6 - But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
• jeremiah 4:2 - And thou shalt swear, The LORD liveth, in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.
• jeremiah 9:24 - But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the LORD.
• jeremiah 22:3 - Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.
• jeremiah 22:13 - Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that useth his neighbour's service without wages, and giveth him not for his work;
• jeremiah 23:6 - In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
• jeremiah 33:15 - In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land.
• jeremiah 33:16 - In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely: and this is the name wherewith she shall be called, The LORD our righteousness.
• jeremiah 51:10 - The LORD hath brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.
• ezekiel 3:20 - Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling-block before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
• ezekiel 14:14 - Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord GOD.
• ezekiel 14:20 - Though Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.
• ezekiel 18:20 - The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
• ezekiel 18:22 - All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live.
• ezekiel 18:24 - But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.
• ezekiel 18:26 - When a righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity that he hath done shall he die.
• ezekiel 33:12 - Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth.
• ezekiel 33:13 - When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he hath committed, he shall die for it.
• ezekiel 33:18 - When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die thereby.
• daniel 4:27 - Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity.
• daniel 9:7 - O LORD, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee.
• daniel 9:16 - O LORD, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us.
• daniel 9:18 - O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies.
• daniel 9:24 - Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
• daniel 12:3 - And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.
• hosea 2:19 - And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies.
• hosea 10:12 - Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.
• amos 5:7 - Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,
• amos 5:24 - But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
• amos 6:12 - Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:
• micah 6:5 - O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim unto Gilgal; that ye may know the righteousness of the LORD.
• micah 7:9 - I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.
• zephaniah 2:3 - Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD's anger.
• zechariah 8:8 - And I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness.
• malachi 3:3 - And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.
• malachi 4:2 - But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
• matthew 3:15 - And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him.
• matthew 5:6 - Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
• matthew 5:10 - Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
• matthew 5:20 - For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.
• matthew 6:33 - But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
• matthew 21:32 - For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not: but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and ye, when ye had seen it, repented not afterward, that ye might believe him.
• luke 1:75 - In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.
• luke 16:9 - And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.
• john 7:18 - He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.
• john 16:8 - And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:
• john 16:10 - Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more;
• acts 10:35 - But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.
• acts 13:10 - And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
• acts 17:31 - Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
• acts 24:25 - And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this time; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee.
• romans 1:17 - For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
• romans 1:18 - For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
• romans 1:29 - Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
• romans 2:8 - But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
• romans 2:26 - Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?
• romans 3:5 - But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)
• romans 3:21 - But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
• romans 3:22 - Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
• romans 3:25 - Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
• romans 3:26 - To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
• romans 4:3 - For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.
• romans 4:5 - But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
• romans 4:6 - Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,
• romans 4:9 - Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.
• romans 4:11 - And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also:
• romans 4:13 - For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
• romans 4:22 - And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.
• romans 5:17 - For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)
• romans 5:18 - Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.
• romans 5:21 - That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
• romans 6:13 - Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
• romans 6:16 - Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
• romans 6:18 - Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
• romans 6:19 - I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.
• romans 6:20 - For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.
• romans 8:4 - That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
• romans 8:10 - And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
• romans 9:14 - What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
• romans 9:28 - For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.
• romans 9:30 - What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.
• romans 9:31 - But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.
• romans 10:3 - For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
• romans 10:4 - For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
• romans 10:5 - For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them.
• romans 10:6 - But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above:)
• romans 10:10 - For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
• romans 14:17 - For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.
• 1corinthians 1:30 - But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
• 1corinthians 15:34 - Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.
• 2corinthians 3:9 - For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
• 2corinthians 5:21 - For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
• 2corinthians 6:7 - By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
• 2corinthians 6:14 - Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
• 2corinthians 9:9 - (As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the poor: his righteousness remaineth for ever.
• 2corinthians 9:10 - Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;)
• 2corinthians 11:15 - Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
• galatians 2:21 - I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
• galatians 3:6 - Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.
• galatians 3:21 - Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.
• galatians 5:5 - For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.
• ephesians 4:24 - And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
• ephesians 5:9 - (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)
• ephesians 6:14 - Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
• philippians 1:11 - Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
• philippians 3:6 - Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.
• philippians 3:9 - And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
• 2thessalonians 2:10 - And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
• 2thessalonians 2:12 - That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
• 1timothy 6:11 - But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.
• 2timothy 2:22 - Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
• 2timothy 3:16 - All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
• 2timothy 4:8 - Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.
• titus 3:5 - Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
• hebrews 1:8 - But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.
• hebrews 1:9 - Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
• hebrews 5:13 - For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.
• hebrews 7:2 - To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem, which is, King of peace;
• hebrews 8:12 - For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
• hebrews 11:7 - By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
• hebrews 11:33 - Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions.
• hebrews 12:11 - Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
• james 1:20 - For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
• james 2:23 - And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.
• james 3:18 - And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
• 1peter 2:24 - Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
• 1peter 3:14 - But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;
• 2peter 1:1 - Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:
• 2peter 2:5 - And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
• 2peter 2:13 - And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;
• 2peter 2:15 - Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
• 2peter 2:21 - For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
• 2peter 3:13 - Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
• 1john 1:9 - If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
• 1john 2:29 - If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.
• 1john 3:7 - Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
• 1john 3:10 - In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
• 1john 5:17 - All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death.
• revelation 19:8 - And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.
• revelation 19:11 - And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.