Bible Verses About Righteousness

For behold this selfsame thing, that you were made sorrowful according to God, how great carefulness it worketh in you: yea defence, yea indignation, yea fear, yea desire, yea zeal, yea revenge. In all things you have shewed yourselves to be undefiled in the matter.

As it is written: He hath dispersed abroad, he hath given to the poor: his justice remaineth for ever.

And he that ministereth seed to the sower will both give you bread to eat and will multiply your seed and increase the growth of the fruits of your justice:

And every height that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God: and bringing into captivity every understanding unto the obedience of Christ:

Try your own selves if you be in the faith: prove ye yourselves. Know you not your own selves, that Christ Jesus is in you, unless perhaps you be reprobates?

But knowing that man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, we also believe in Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by the faith of Christ and not by the works of the law: because by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified.

I cast not away the grace of God. For if justice be by the law, then Christ died in vain.

Was the law then against the promises of God: God forbid! For if there had been a law given which could give life, verily justice should have been by the law.

And because you are sons, God hath sent the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying: Abba, Father.

For we in spirit, by faith, wait for the hope of justice.

But the fruit of the Spirit is, charity, joy, peace, patience, benignity, goodness, longanimity,

Mildness, faith, modesty, continency, chastity. Against such there is no law.

Be not deceived: God is not mocked.

For what things a man shall sow, those also shall he reap. For he that soweth in his flesh of the flesh also shall reap corruption. But he that soweth in the spirit of the spirit shall reap life everlasting.

In whom you also, after you had heard the word of truth (the gospel of your salvation), in whom also believing, you were signed with the holy Spirit of promise.

Who is the pledge of our inheritance, unto the redemption of acquisition, unto the praise of his glory.

For by grace you are saved through faith: and that not of yourselves, for it is the gift of God.

Not of works, that no man may glory.

And put on the new man, who according to God is created in justice and holiness of truth.

For the fruit of the light is in all goodness and justice and truth:

Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth and having on the breastplate of justice:

Filled with the fruit of justice, through Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.

Only let your conversation be worthy of the gospel of Christ: that, whether I come and see you, or, being absent, may hear of you, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one mind labouring together for the faith of the gospel.

And in nothing be ye terrified by the adversaries: which to them is a cause of perdition, but to you of salvation, and this from God.

For unto you it is given for Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer for him: