Bible Verses About Righteousness

"Therefore, I tell you, don't wor y about your life -- what you will eat or drink; or about your body -- what you will wear. Isn't life more than food and the body more than clothing?

Look at the birds flying about! They neither plant nor harvest, nor do they gather food into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren't you worth more than they are?

Can any of you by worrying add a single hour to his life?

"And why be anxious about clothing? Think about the fields of wild irises, and how they grow. They neither work nor spin thread,

yet I tell you that not even Shlomo in all his glory was clothed as beautifully as one of these.

If this is how God clothes grass in the field -- which is here today and gone tomorrow, thrown in an oven -- won't he much more clothe you? What little trust you have!

"So don't be anxious, asking, `What will we eat?,' `What will we drink?' or `How will we be clothed?'

For it is the pagans who set their hearts on all these things. Your heavenly Father knows you need them all.

But seek first his Kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

The good person brings forth good things from his store of good, and the evil person brings forth evil things from his store of evil.

Whoever does what my Father in heaven wants, that person is my brother and sister and mother."

"Now when the king came in to look at the guests, he saw there a man who wasn't dressed for a wedding; so he asked him,

`Friend, how did you get in here without wedding clothes?' The man was speechless.

Then the king said to the servants, `Bind him hand and foot, and throw him outside in the dark!' In that place people will wail and grind their teeth,

for many are invited, but few are chosen."

And so, on you will fall the guilt for all the innocent blood that has ever been shed on earth, from the blood of innocent Hevel to the blood of Z'kharyah Ben-Berekhyah, whom you murdered between the Temple and the altar.

People passing by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads

and saying, "So you can destroy the Temple, can you, and rebuild it in three days? Save yourself, if you are the Son of God, and come down from the stake!"

Likewise, the head cohanim jeered at him, along with the Torah-teachers and elders,

"He saved others, but he can't save himself!" "So he's King of Isra'el, is he? Let him come down now from the stake! Then we'll believe him!"

"He trusted God? So, let him rescue him if he wants him!s After all, he did say, `I'm the Son of God'!"

Even the robbers nailed up with him insulted him in the same way.

He replied, "Who are my mother and my brothers?"

Looking at those seated in a circle around him, he said, "See! Here are my mother and my brothers!

Whoever does what God wants is my brother, sister and mother!"