Bible Verses About Righteousness

But whoever keeps his word, God’s love has most certainly been perfected in him. This is how we know that we are in him:

he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.

He who loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him.

But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn’t know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

Therefore, as for you, let that remain in you which you heard from the beginning. If that which you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son, and in the Father.

If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.

Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

Whoever remains in him doesn’t sin. Whoever sins hasn’t seen him, neither knows him.

Little children, let no one lead you astray. He who does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

Whoever is born of God doesn’t commit sin, because his seed remains in him; and he can’t sin, because he is born of God.

In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn’t do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn’t love his brother.

For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;

unlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn’t love his brother remains in death.

But whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him?

My little children, let’s not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

And by this we know that we are of the truth, and persuade our hearts before him,

because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.

Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have boldness toward God;

and whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.

This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Yeshua the Messiah, and love one another, even as he commanded.

He who keeps his commandments remains in him, and he in him. By this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.

We are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn’t listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.