Bible Verses About Righteousness

For behold, this same thing, that you were made sorry in a godly way, what earnest care it worked in you. Yes, what defense, indignation, fear, longing, zeal, and vengeance! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be pure in the matter.

As it is written, “He has scattered abroad, he has given to the poor. His righteousness remains forever.”

Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Messiah;

Test your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know as to your own selves, that Yeshua the Messiah is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.

yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Yeshua the Messiah, even we believed in Messiah Yeshua, that we might be justified by faith in Messiah, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.

I don’t make void the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Messiah died for nothing!”

Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most certainly righteousness would have been of the law.

And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!”

For we, through the Spirit, by faith wait for the hope of righteousness.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

in whom you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation—in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,

who is a pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of his glory.

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

not of works, that no one would boast.

and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,

Stand therefore, having the utility belt of truth buckled around your waist, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Yeshua the Messiah, to the glory and praise of God.

Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Messiah, that, whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;

and in nothing frightened by the adversaries, which is for them a proof of destruction, but to you of salvation, and that from God.

Because it has been granted to you on behalf of Messiah, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer on his behalf,