Bible Verses About Righteousness

for, lo, this same thing--your being made sorry toward God--how much diligence it doth work in you! but defence, but displeasure, but fear, but longing desire, but zeal, but revenge; in every thing ye did approve yourselves to be pure in the matter.

(according as it hath been written, `He dispersed abroad, he gave to the poor, his righteousness doth remain to the age,')

and may He who is supplying seed to the sower, and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness,

reasonings bringing down, and every high thing lifted up against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of the Christ,

Your own selves try ye, if ye are in the faith; your own selves prove ye; do ye not know your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you, if ye be not in some respect disapproved of?

having known also that a man is not declared righteous by works of law, if not through the faith of Jesus Christ, also we in Christ Jesus did believe, that we might be declared righteous by the faith of Christ, and not by works of law, wherefore declared righteous by works of law shall be no flesh.'

I do not make void the grace of God, for if righteousness be through law--then Christ died in vain.

the law, then, is against the promises of God? --let it not be! for if a law was given that was able to make alive, truly by law there would have been the righteousness,

and because ye are sons, God did send forth the spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, `Abba, Father!'

for we by the Spirit, by faith, a hope of righteousness do wait for,

And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,

meekness, temperance: against such there is no law;

Be not led astray; God is not mocked; for what a man may sow--that also he shall reap,

because he who is sowing to his own flesh, of the flesh shall reap corruption; and he who is sowing to the Spirit, of the Spirit shall reap life age-during;

in whom ye also, having heard the word of the truth--the good news of your salvation--in whom also having believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of the promise,

which is an earnest of our inheritance, to the redemption of the acquired possession, to the praise of His glory.

for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you--of God the gift,

not of works, that no one may boast;

and to put on the new man, which, according to God, was created in righteousness and kindness of the truth.

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

Stand, therefore, having your loins girt about in truth, and having put on the breastplate of the righteousness,

being filled with the fruit of righteousness, that is through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

Only worthily of the good news of the Christ conduct ye yourselves, that, whether having come and seen you, whether being absent I may hear of the things concerning you, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one soul, striving together for the faith of the good news,

and not terrified in anything by those opposing, which to them indeed is a token of destruction, and to you of salvation, and that from God;

because to you it was granted, on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also on behalf of him to suffer;