Bible Verses About Righteousness

Confess therefore your sins one to another: and pray one for another, that you may be saved. For the continual prayer of a just man availeth much.

Who his own self bore our sins in his body upon the tree: that we, being dead to sins, should live to justice: by whose stripes you were healed.

In like manner also, let wives be subject to their husbands: that, if any believe not the word, they may be won without the word, by the conversation of the wives,

Considering your chaste conversation with fear.

Whose adorning, let it not be the outward plaiting of the hair, or the wearing of gold, or the putting on of apparel:

But the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptibility of a quiet and a meek spirit which is rich in the sight of God.

For after this manner heretofore, the holy women also who trusted in God adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:

As Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters you are, doing well and not fearing any disturbance.

Ye husbands, likewise dwelling with them according to knowledge, giving honour to the female as to the weaker vessel and as to the co-heirs of the grace of life: that your prayers be not hindered.

And in fine, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, being lovers of the brotherhood, merciful, modest, humble:

Not rendering evil for evil, nor railing for railing, but contrariwise, blessing: for unto this are you called, that you may inherit a blessing.

For he that will love life and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile.

Let him decline from evil and do good: Let him seek after peace and pursue it:

Because the eyes of the Lord are upon the just, and his ears unto their prayers but the countenance of the Lord upon them that do evil things.

But if also you suffer any thing for justice' sake, blessed are ye. And be not afraid of their fear: and be not troubled.

That now he may live the rest of his time in the flesh, not after the desires of men but according to the will of God.

And you, employing all care, minister in your faith, virtue: And in virtue, knowledge:

And in knowledge, abstinence: and in abstinence, patience: and in patience, godliness:

And in godliness, love of brotherhood: and in love of brotherhood, charity.

For if these things be with you and abound, they will make you to be neither empty nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

For he that hath not these things with him is blind and groping, having forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.

And spared not the original world, but preserved Noe, the eighth person, the preacher of justice, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly.

For in sight and hearing he was just, dwelling among them who from day to day vexed the just soul with unjust works.

And by this we know that we have known him, if we keep his commandments.

He who saith that he knoweth him and keepeth not his commandments is a liar: and the truth is not in him.