Bible Verses About Righteousness

Both of them were righteous before God, observing all the mitzvot and ordinances of ADONAI blamelessly.

in holiness and righteousness before him all our days.

The crowds asked Yochanan, "So then, what should we do?"

He answered, "Whoever has two coats should share with somebody who has none, and whoever has food should do the same."

Tax-collectors also came to be immersed; and they asked him, "Rabbi, what should we do?"

"Collect no more than the government assesses," he told them.

Some soldiers asked him, "What about us? What should we do?" To them he said, "Don't intimidate anyone, don't accuse people falsely, and be satisfied with your pay."

But what fell in rich soil -- these are the ones who, when they hear the message, hold onto it with a good, receptive heart; and by persevering, they bring forth a harvest.

Now won’t God grant justice to his chosen people who cry out to him day and night? Is he delaying long over them?

Also, to some who were relying on their own righteousness and looking down on everyone else, he told this parable:

But everyone who does what is true comes to the light, so that all may see that his actions are accomplished through God.”

Whoever does accept what he says puts his seal on the fact that God is true,

Whoever belongs to God listens to what God says; the reason you don’t listen is that you don’t belong to God.”

Yeshua replied, “Me? I have no demon. I am honoring my Father. But you dishonor me.

Everyone will know that you are my talmidim by the fact that you have love for each other.”

Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me, and the one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and reveal myself to him.”

Y’hudah (not the one from K’riot) said to him, “What has happened, Lord, that you are about to reveal yourself to us and not to the world?”

Yeshua answered him, “If someone loves me, he will keep my word; and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.

Someone who doesn’t love me doesn’t keep my words — and the word you are hearing is not my own but that of the Father who sent me.

Stay united with me, as I will with you — for just as the branch can’t put forth fruit by itself apart from the vine, so you can’t bear fruit apart from me.

“I am the vine and you are the branches. Those who stay united with me, and I with them, are the ones who bear much fruit; because apart from me you can’t do a thing.

This is how my Father is glorified — in your bearing much fruit; this is how you will prove to be my talmidim.

“This is my command: that you keep on loving each other just as I have loved you.

(which means “gazelle”); she was always doing tzedakah and other good deeds.

but that whoever fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him, no matter what people he belongs to.