Bible Verses About Righteousness

For just look at what handling the pain God’s way produced in you! What earnest diligence, what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, what readiness to put things right! In everything you have proved yourselves blameless in the matter.

as the Tanakh says, “He gave generously to the poor; his tzedakah lasts forever.”

He who provides both seed for the planter and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed and increase the harvest of your tzedakah.

and every arrogance that raises itself up against the knowledge of God; we take every thought captive and make it obey the Messiah.

Examine yourselves to see whether you are living the life of trust. Test yourselves. Don’t you realize that Yeshua the Messiah is in you? — unless you fail to pass the test.

even so, we have come to realize that a person is not declared righteous by God on the ground of his legalistic observance of Torah commands, but through the Messiah Yeshua’s trusting faithfulness. Therefore, we too have put our trust in Messiah Yeshua and become faithful to him, in order that we might be declared righteous on the ground of the Messiah’s trusting faithfulness and not on the ground of our legalistic observance of Torah commands. For on the ground of legalistic observance of Torah commands, no one will be declared righteous.

I do not reject God’s gracious gift; for if the way in which one attains righteousness is through legalism, then the Messiah’s death was pointless.

Does this mean that the legal part of the Torah stands in opposition to God’s promises? Heaven forbid! For if the legal part of the Torah which God gave had had in itself the power to give life, then righteousness really would have come by legalistically following such a Torah.

Now because you are sons, God has sent forth into our hearts the Spirit of his Son, the Spirit who cries out, “Abba!” (that is, “Dear Father!”).

For it is by the power of the Spirit, who works in us because we trust and are faithful, that we confidently expect our hope of attaining righteousness to be fulfilled.

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

humility, self control. Nothing in the Torah stands against such things.

Don’t delude yourselves: no one makes a fool of God! A person reaps what he sows.

Those who keep sowing in the field of their old nature, in order to meet its demands, will eventually reap ruin; but those who keep sowing in the field of the Spirit will reap from the Spirit everlasting life.

Furthermore, you who heard the message of the truth, the Good News offering you deliverance, and put your trust in the Messiah were sealed by him with the promised Ruach HaKodesh,

who guarantees our inheritance until we come into possession of it and thus bring him praise commensurate with his glory.

For you have been delivered by grace through trusting, and even this is not your accomplishment but God’s gift.

You were not delivered by your own actions; therefore no one should boast.

and clothe yourselves with the new nature created to be godly, which expresses itself in the righteousness and holiness that flow from the truth.

for the fruit of the light is in every kind of goodness, rightness and truth —

Therefore, stand! Have the belt of truth buckled around your waist, put on righteousness for a breastplate,

filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Yeshua the Messiah — to the glory and praise of God.

Only conduct your lives in a way worthy of the Good News of the Messiah; so that whether I come and see you or I hear about you from a distance, you stand firm, united in spirit, fighting with one accord for the faith of the Good News,

not frightened by anything the opposition does. This will be for them an indication that they are headed for destruction and you for deliverance. And this is from God;

because for the Messiah’s sake it has been granted to you not only to trust in him but also to suffer on his behalf,