Bible Verses About Righteousness

and the disciples, according as any one was prospering, determined each of them to send for ministration to the brethren dwelling in Judea,

which also they did, having sent unto the elders by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.

said, `O full of all guile, and all profligacy, son of a devil, enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease perverting the right ways of the Lord?

because He did set a day in which He is about to judge the world in righteousness, by a man whom He did ordain, having given assurance to all, having raised him out of the dead.'

and many of those who had practised the curious arts, having brought the books together, were burning them before all; and they reckoned together the prices of them, and found it five myriads of silverlings;

and he reasoning concerning righteousness, and temperance, and the judgment that is about to be, Felix, having become afraid, answered, `For the present be going, and having got time, I will call for thee;'

and to those contentious, and disobedient, indeed, to the truth, and obeying the unrighteousness--indignation and wrath,

according as it hath been written--`There is none righteous, not even one;

wherefore by works of law shall no flesh be declared righteous before Him, for through law is a knowledge of sin.

for what doth the writing say? `And Abraham did believe God, and it was reckoned to him--to righteousness;'

and to him who is not working, and is believing upon Him who is declaring righteous the impious, his faith is reckoned--to righteousness:

even as David also doth speak of the happiness of the man to whom God doth reckon righteousness apart from works:

Is this happiness, then, upon the circumcision, or also upon the uncircumcision--for we say that the faith was reckoned to Abraham--to righteousness?

and a sign he did receive of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith in the uncircumcision, for his being father of all those believing through uncircumcision, for the righteousness also being reckoned to them,

For not through law is the promise to Abraham, or to his seed, of his being heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith;

and at the promise of God did not stagger in unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, having given glory to God,

wherefore also it was reckoned to him to righteousness.

but also on ours, to whom it is about to be reckoned--to us believing on Him who did raise up Jesus our Lord out of the dead,

Having been declared righteous, then, by faith, we have peace toward God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

through whom also we have the access by the faith into this grace in which we have stood, and we boast on the hope of the glory of God.

And not only so , but we also boast in the tribulations, knowing that the tribulation doth work endurance;

and the endurance, experience; and the experience, hope;

and the hope doth not make ashamed, because the love of God hath been poured forth in our hearts through the Holy Spirit that hath been given to us.

neither present ye your members instruments of unrighteousness to the sin, but present yourselves to God as living out of the dead, and your members instruments of righteousness to God;

have ye not known that to whom ye present yourselves servants for obedience, servants ye are to him to whom ye obey, whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?