Bible Verses About Righteousness

For behold, this selfsame thing, that ye were made sorry after a godly sort, what earnest care it wrought in you, yea what clearing of yourselves, yea what indignation, yea what fear, yea what longing, yea what zeal, yea what avenging! In everything ye approved yourselves to be pure in the matter.

as it is written, He hath scattered abroad, he hath given to the poor; His righteousness abideth for ever.

And he that supplieth seed to the sower and bread for food, shall supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness:

casting down imaginations, and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;

Try your own selves, whether ye are in the faith; prove your own selves. Or know ye not as to your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you? unless indeed ye be reprobate.

yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed on Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law: because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

I do not make void the grace of God: for if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nought.

Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could make alive, verily righteousness would have been of the law.

And because ye are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

For we through the Spirit by faith wait for the hope of righteousness.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

meekness, self-control; against such there is no law.

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

For he that soweth unto his own flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth unto the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap eternal life.

in whom ye also, having heard the word of the truth, the gospel of your salvation,—in whom, having also believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,

which is an earnest of our inheritance, unto the redemption of God’s own possession, unto the praise of his glory.

for by grace have ye been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God;

not of works, that no man should glory.

and put on the new man, that after God hath been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

(for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth),

Stand therefore, having girded your loins with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.

Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ: that, whether I come and see you or be absent, I may hear of your state, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the gospel;

and in nothing affrighted by the adversaries: which is for them an evident token of perdition, but of your salvation, and that from God;

because to you it hath been granted in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer in his behalf: