Bible Verses About Righteousness

Therefore, openly acknowledge your sins to one another, and pray for each other, so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.

He himself bore our sins in his body on the stake, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness — by his wounds you were healed.

In the same way, wives, submit to your husbands; so that even if some of them do not believe the Word, they will be won over by your conduct, without your saying anything,

as they see your respectful and pure behavior.

Your beauty should not consist in externals such as fancy hairstyles, gold jewelry or what you wear;

rather, let it be the inner character of your heart, with the imperishable quality of a gentle and quiet spirit. In God’s sight this is of great value.

This is how the holy women of the past who put their hope in God used to adorn themselves and submit to their husbands,

the way Sarah obeyed Avraham, honoring him as her lord. You are her daughters if you do what is right and do not succumb to fear.

You husbands, likewise, conduct your married lives with understanding. Although your wife may be weaker physically, you should respect her as a fellow-heir of the gift of Life. If you don’t, your prayers will be blocked.

Finally, all of you, be one in mind and feeling; love as brothers; and be compassionate and humble-minded,

not repaying evil with evil or insult with insult, but, on the contrary, with blessing. For it is to this that you have been called, so that you may receive a blessing.

For “Whoever wants to love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit,

turn from evil and do good, seek peace and chase after it.

For Adonai keeps his eyes on the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayers; but the face of Adonai is against those who do evil things.”

But even if you do suffer for being righteous, you are blessed! Moreover, don’t fear what they fear or be disturbed,

with the result that he lives the rest of his earthly life no longer controlled by human desires, but by God’s will.

For this very reason, try your hardest to furnish your faith with goodness, goodness with knowledge,

knowledge with self-control, self-control with perseverance, perseverance with godliness,

godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.

For if you have these qualities in abundance, they keep you from being barren and unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah.

Indeed, whoever lacks them is blind, so shortsighted that he forgets that his past sins have been washed away.

And he did not spare the ancient world; on the contrary, he preserved Noach, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, and brought the Flood upon a world of ungodly people.

for the wicked deeds which that righteous man saw and heard, as he lived among them, tormented his righteous heart day after day.

The way we can be sure we know him is if we are obeying his commands.

Anyone who says, “I know him,” but isn’t obeying his commands is a liar — the truth is not in him.