Bible Verses About Righteousness

That with one mind and with one mouth you may glorify God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Wherefore, receive one another, as Christ also hath received you, unto the honour of God.

But of him are you in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom and justice and sanctification and redemption:

But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will: and will know, not the speech of them that are puffed up, but the power.

For the kingdom of God is not in speech, but in power.

Wherefore, I give you to understand that no man, speaking by the Spirit of God, saith Anathema to Jesus. And no man can say The Lord Jesus, but by the Holy Ghost.

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

And if I should have prophecy and should know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I should have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

And if I should distribute all my goods to feed the poor, and if I should deliver my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

Charity is patient, is kind: charity envieth not, dealeth not perversely, is not puffed up,

Is not ambitious, seeketh not her own, is not provoked to anger, thinketh no evil:

Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth with the truth:

Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

Charity never falleth away: whether prophecies shall be made void or tongues shall cease or knowledge shall be destroyed.

For we know in part: and we prophesy in part.

But when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away.

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child. But, when I became a man, I put away the things of a child.

We see now through a glass in a dark manner: but then face to face. Now I know in part: but then I shall know even as I am known.

And now there remain faith, hope, and charity, these three: but the greatest of these is charity.

Awake, ye just, and sin not. For some have not the knowledge of God. I speak it to your shame.

If then any be in Christ a new creature, the old things are passed away. Behold all things are made new.

Him, who knew no sin, he hath made sin for us: that we might be made the justice of God in him.

In the word of truth, in the power of God: by the armour of justice on the right hand and on the left:

Bear not the yoke with unbelievers. For what participation hath justice with injustice? Or what fellowship hath light with darkness?

For the sorrow that is according to God worketh penance, steadfast unto salvation: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.