Bible Verses About Righteousness

He believed in ADONAI, and he credited it to him as righteousness.

Far be it from you to do such a thing - to kill the righteous along with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are treated alike! Far be it from you! Shouldn't the judge of all the earth do what is just?"

And I will let my integrity stand as witness against me in the future: when you come to look over the animals constituting my wages, every goat that isn't speckled or spotted and every sheep that isn't brown will count as stolen by me."

"'Do not be unjust in judging - show neither partiality to the poor nor deference to the mighty, but with justice judge your neighbor.

"Who has counted the dust of Ya'akov or numbered the ashes of Isra'el? May I die as the righteous die! May my end be like theirs!"

It will be righteousness for us if we are careful to obey all these mitzvot before ADONAI our God, just as he ordered us to do.'"

It is not because of your righteousness, or because your heart is so upright, that you go in to take possession of their land; but to punish the wickedness of these nations that ADONAI your God is driving them out ahead of you, and also to confirm the word which ADONAI swore to your ancestors, Avraham, Yitz'chak and Ya'akov.

Pinchas the son of El'azar the cohen said to the descendants of Re'uven, the descendants of Gad and the descendants of M'nasheh, "Today we know that ADONAI is here with us, because you have not committed this treasonous act against ADONAI. Now you have saved the people of Isra'el from the anger of ADONAI."

ADONAI rewarded me for my uprightness, he repaid me because my hands were clean.

Shlomo said, "You showed your servant David my father much grace, as he lived before you honestly and righteously, having an upright heart with you. You preserved this great grace for him by giving him a son to sit on his throne, as is the case today.

"What is a human being, that he could be innocent, someone born from a woman, that he could be righteous?

Yet the righteous hold on to their way, and those with clean hands grow stronger and stronger.

I clothed myself with righteousness, and it clothed itself with me; my justice was like a robe and a crown.

He prays to God and is accepted by him, so that he sees [God's] face with joy, and [God] repays the man for his righteousness.

He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous; but when he sets kings on their throne forever, they may become proud;

Their delight is in ADONAI's Torah; on his Torah they meditate day and night.

They are like trees planted by streams -they bear their fruit in season, their leaves never wither, everything they do succeeds.

For this reason the wicked won't stand up to the judgment, nor will sinners at the gathering of the righteous.

For ADONAI watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked is doomed.

Offer sacrifices rightly, and put your trust in ADONAI.

For you, ADONAI, bless the righteous; you surround them with favor like a shield.

ADONAI tests the righteous; but he hates the wicked and the lover of violence.

For ADONAI is righteous; he loves righteousness; the upright will see his face.

But all turn aside, all alike are corrupt; no one does what is right, not a single one.

A psalm of David: ADONAI, who can rest in your tent? Who can live on your holy mountain?