Bible Verses About Righteousness

He that neglecteth a loss for the sake of a friend, is just: but the way of the wicked shall deceive them.

In the path of justice is life: but the bye-way leadeth to death.

Justice keepeth the way of the innocent: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.

The just eateth and filleth his soul: but the belly of the wicked is never to be filled.

Justice exalteth a nation: but sin maketh nations miserable.

The house of the just is very much strength: and in the fruits of the wicked is trouble.

The way of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord: he that followeth justice is beloved by him.

The Lord is far from the wicked: and he will hear the prayers of the just.

They that act wickedly are abominable to the king: for the throne is established by justice.

Old age is a crown of dignity, when it is found in the ways of justice.

To do mercy and judgment, pleaseth the Lord more than victims.

He that followeth justice and mercy, shall find life, justice, and glory.

Take away wickedness from the face of the king, and his throne shall be established with justice.

The wicked man fleeth, when no man pursueth: but the just, bold as a lion, shall be without dread.

The just taketh notice of the cause of the poor: the wicked is void of knowledge.

Say to the just man that it is well, for he shall eat the fruit of his doings.

For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel: and the man of Juda, his pleasant plant: and I looked that he should do judgment, and behold iniquity: and do justice, and behold a cry.

But he shall judge the poor with justice, and shall reprove with equity the meek of the earth: and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall slay the wicked.

And justice shall be the girdle of his loins: and faith the girdle of his reins.

My soul hath desired thee in the night: yea, and with my spirit within me in the morning early I will watch to thee. When thou shalt do thy judgments on the earth, the inhabitants of the world shall learn justice.

Let us have pity on the wicked, but he will not learn justice: in the land of the saints he hath done wicked things, and he shall not see the glory of the Lord.

And I will set judgment in weight, and justice in measure: and hail shall overturn the hope of falsehood: and waters shall overflow its protection.

Behold a king shall reign in justice, and princes shall rule in judgment.

An judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and justice shall sit in charmel.

And the work of justice shall be peace, and the service of justice quietness, and security for ever.