Bible Verses About Righteousness

That ye with one minde, and with one mouth may prayse God, euen the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ.

Wherefore receiue ye one another, as Christ also receiued vs to the glory of God.

But ye are of him in Christ Iesus, who of God is made vnto vs wisedome and righteousnesse, and sanctification, and redemption,

But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will knowe, not the wordes of them which are puffed vp, but the power.

For the kingdome of God is not in worde, but in power.

Wherefore, I declare vnto you, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Iesus execrable: also no man can say that Iesus is the Lord, but by the holy Ghost.

Though I speake with the tongues of men and Angels, and haue not loue, I am as sounding brasse, or a tinkling cymbal.

And though I had the gift of prophecie, and knewe all secrets and all knowledge, yea, if I had all faith, so that I could remooue mountaines and had not loue, I were nothing.

And though I feede the poore with all my goods, and though I giue my body, that I be burned, and haue not loue, it profiteth me nothing.

Loue suffreth long: it is bountifull: loue enuieth not: loue doeth not boast it selfe: it is not puffed vp:

It doeth no vncomely thing: it seeketh not her owne things: it is not prouoked to anger: it thinketh not euill:

It reioyceth not in iniquitie, but reioyceth in the trueth:

It suffreth all things: it beleeueth all things: it hopeth all things: it endureth all things.

Loue doeth neuer fall away, though that prophecyings be abolished, or the tongues cease, or knowledge vanish away.

For we knowe in part, and we prophecie in part.

But when that which is perfect, is come, then that which is in part, shalbe abolished.

When I was a childe, I spake as a childe, I vnderstoode as a childe, I thought as a childe: but when I became a man, I put away childish thinges.

For nowe we see through a glasse darkely: but then shall wee see face to face. Nowe I know in part: but then shall I know euen as I am knowen.

And nowe abideth faith, hope and loue, euen these three: but the chiefest of these is loue.

Awake to liue righteously, and sinne not: for some haue not ye knowledge of God, I speake this to your shame.

Therefore if any man be in Christ, let him be a newe creature. Olde things are passed away: beholde, all things are become newe.

For he hath made him to be sinne for vs, which knewe no sinne, that we should be made the righteousnesse of God in him.

By the worde of trueth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousnesse on the right hand, and on the left,

Be not vnequally yoked with the infidels: for what fellowship hath righteousnesse with vnrighteousnesse? and what communion hath light with darkenesse?

For godly sorowe causeth repentance vnto saluation, not to be repented of: but the worldly sorowe causeth death.