Bible Verses About Righteousness

For beholde, this thing that ye haue bene godly sory, what great care it hath wrought in you: yea, what clearing of yourselues: yea, what indignation: yea, what feare: yea, howe great desire: yea, what a zeale: yea, what reuenge: in all things ye haue shewed your selues, that ye are pure in this matter.

(As it is written, He hath sparsed abroad and hath giuen to the poore: his beneuolence remayneth for euer.

Also hee that findeth seede to the sower, will minister likewise bread for foode, and multiplie your seede, and increase the fruites of your beneuolence,)

Casting downe the imaginations, and euery high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captiuitie euery thought to the obedience of Christ,

Proue your selues whether ye are in the faith: examine your selues: knowe yee not your owne selues, howe that Iesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?

Knowe that a man is not iustified by the works of the Law, but by ye faith of Iesus Christ, euen we, I say, haue beleeued in Iesus Christ, that we might be iustified by the faith of Christ, and not by the workes of the Lawe, because that by the workes of the Lawe, no flesh shalbe iustified.

I doe not abrogate the grace of God: for if righteousnes be by the Lawe, then Christ dyed without a cause.

Is the Lawe then against the promises of God? God forbid: For if there had bene a Lawe giuen which coulde haue giuen life, surely righteousnes should haue bene by the Lawe.

And because ye are sonnes, God hath sent foorth the Spirit of his Sonne into your heartes, which crieth, Abba, Father.

For we through the Spirit waite for the hope of righteousnes through faith.

But the fruite of the Spirit is loue, ioye, peace, long suffering, gentlenes, goodnes, fayth,

Meekenesse, temperancie: against such there is no lawe.

Be not deceiued: God is not mocked: for whatsoeuer a man soweth, that shall hee also reape.

For hee that soweth to his flesh, shall of the flesh reape corruption: but hee that soweth to the spirit, shall of the spirit reape life euerlasting.

In whom also ye haue trusted, after that ye heard the worde of trueth, euen the Gospel of your saluation, wherein also after that ye beleeued, ye were sealed with the holy Spirite of promise,

Which is the earnest of our inheritance, for the redemption of that libertie purchased vnto the prayse of his glory.

For by grace are ye saued through faith, and that not of your selues: it is the gift of God,

Not of workes, least any man should boast himselfe.

And put on ye new man, which after God is created vnto righteousnes, and true holines.

(For the fruit of the Spirit is in al goodnes, and righteousnes, and trueth)

Stand therefore, and your loynes girded about with veritie, and hauing on the brest plate of righteousnesse,

Filled with the fruites of righteousnesse, which are by Iesus Christ vnto the glorie and praise of God.

Onely let your conuersation be, as it becommeth the Gospel of Christ, that whether I come and see you, or els be absent, I may heare of your matters that ye continue in one Spirit, and in one mind, fighting together through the faith of the Gospel.

And in nothing feare your aduersaries, which is to them a token of perdition, and to you of saluation, and that of God.

For vnto you it is giuen for Christ, that not onely ye should beleeue in him, but also suffer for his sake,