Bible Verses About Righteousness

And he hath believed in Jehovah, and He reckoneth it to him--righteousness.

Far be it from Thee to do according to this thing, to put to death the righteous with the wicked; that it hath been--as the righteous so the wicked--far be it from Thee; doth the Judge of all the earth not do justice?'

and my righteousness hath answered for me in the day to come, when it cometh in for my hire before thy face; --every one which is not speckled and spotted among my goats, and brown among my lambs--it is stolen with me.'

`Ye do not do perversity in judgment; thou dost not lift up the face of the poor, nor honour the face of the great; in righteousness thou dost judge thy fellow.

Who hath counted the dust of Jacob, And the number of the fourth of Israel? Let me die the death of upright ones, And let my last end be like his!'

and righteousness it is for us, when we observe to do all this command before Jehovah our God, as He hath commanded us.

not for thy righteousness, and for the uprightness of thy heart, art thou going in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations is Jehovah thy God dispossessing them from before thee; and in order to establish the word which Jehovah hath sworn to thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob;

And Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest saith unto the sons of Reuben, and unto the sons of Gad, and unto the sons of Manasseh, `To-day we have known that Jehovah is in our midst, because ye have not committed against Jehovah this trespass--then ye have delivered the sons of Israel out of the hand of Jehovah.'

Jehovah recompenseth me, According to my righteousness, According to the cleanness of my hands, He doth return to me.

And Solomon saith, `Thou hast done with Thy servant David my father great kindness, as he walked before Thee in truth and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with Thee, and Thou dost keep for him this great kindness, and dost give to him a son sitting on his throne, as at this day.

What is man that he is pure, And that he is righteous, one born of woman?

And the righteous layeth hold on his way, And the clean of hands addeth strength, And--dumb are they all.

Righteousness I have put on, and it clotheth me, As a robe and a diadem my justice.

He maketh supplication unto God, And He accepteth him. And he seeth His face with shouting, And He returneth to man His righteousness.

He withdraweth not from the righteous His eyes, And from kings on the throne, And causeth them to sit for ever, and they are high,

But--in the law of Jehovah is his delight, And in His law he doth meditate by day and by night:

And he hath been as a tree, Planted by rivulets of water, That giveth its fruit in its season, And its leaf doth not wither, And all that he doth he causeth to prosper.

Therefore the wicked rise not in judgment, Nor sinners in the company of the righteous,

For Jehovah is knowing the way of the righteous, And the way of the wicked is lost!

Sacrifice ye sacrifices of righteousness, And trust ye unto Jehovah.

For Thou blessest the righteous, O Jehovah, As a buckler with favour dost compass him!

Jehovah the righteous doth try. And the wicked and the lover of violence, Hath His soul hated,

For righteous is Jehovah, Righteousness He hath loved, The upright doth His countenance see!'

The whole have turned aside, Together they have been filthy: There is not a doer of good, not even one.

A Psalm of David. Jehovah, who doth sojourn in Thy tent? Who doth dwell in Thy holy hill?