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100 Bible Verses about Gods Righteousness

2 Corinthians 5:21 ESV / 117 helpful votes

For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 80 helpful votes

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

1 Peter 3:14 ESV / 78 helpful votes

But even if you should suffer for righteousness' sake, you will be blessed. Have no fear of them, nor be troubled,

Proverbs 21:3 ESV / 69 helpful votes

To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.

Romans 1:17 ESV / 65 helpful votes

For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”

Matthew 5:20 ESV / 63 helpful votes

For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

James 3:18 ESV / 62 helpful votes

And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

Philippians 3:9 ESV / 62 helpful votes

And be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith—

1 John 2:29 ESV / 60 helpful votes

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

1 Timothy 6:11 ESV / 60 helpful votes

But as for you, O man of God, flee these things. Pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, gentleness.

Psalm 34:15 ESV / 60 helpful votes

The eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous and his ears toward their cry.

Psalm 145:17 ESV / 58 helpful votes

The Lord is righteous in all his ways and kind in all his works.

Matthew 5:6 ESV / 56 helpful votes

“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.

2 Timothy 2:22 ESV / 53 helpful votes

So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

James 5:16 ESV / 52 helpful votes

Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 52 helpful votes

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Proverbs 10:2 ESV / 51 helpful votes

Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit, but righteousness delivers from death.

1 Peter 2:24 ESV / 50 helpful votes

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 50 helpful votes

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

Galatians 6:7 ESV / 48 helpful votes

Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap.

Romans 10:4 ESV / 48 helpful votes

For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

Romans 5:1 ESV / 47 helpful votes

Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Romans 3:23 ESV / 46 helpful votes

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Romans 3:20 ESV / 45 helpful votes

For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.

Isaiah 64:6 ESV / 45 helpful votes

We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 45 helpful votes

Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

Psalm 106:3 ESV / 44 helpful votes

Blessed are they who observe justice, who do righteousness at all times!

Micah 6:8 ESV / 43 helpful votes

He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

1 Peter 3:12 ESV / 42 helpful votes

For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”

1 John 5:18 ESV / 41 helpful votes

We know that everyone who has been born of God does not keep on sinning, but he who was born of God protects him, and the evil one does not touch him.

Isaiah 61:10 ESV / 41 helpful votes

I will greatly rejoice in the Lord; my soul shall exult in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation; he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself like a priest with a beautiful headdress, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

Psalm 112:6 ESV / 41 helpful votes

For the righteous will never be moved; he will be remembered forever.

Romans 3:21 ESV / 40 helpful votes

But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it—

James 4:8 ESV / 38 helpful votes

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

1 John 3:7 ESV / 37 helpful votes

Little children, let no one deceive you. Whoever practices righteousness is righteous, as he is righteous.

Romans 2:6 ESV / 37 helpful votes

He will render to each one according to his works:

Proverbs 11:18 ESV / 37 helpful votes

The wicked earns deceptive wages, but one who sows righteousness gets a sure reward.

1 Peter 5:10 ESV / 36 helpful votes

And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.

1 Thessalonians 5:15 ESV / 36 helpful votes

See that no one repays anyone evil for evil, but always seek to do good to one another and to everyone.

Galatians 6:9 ESV / 36 helpful votes

And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.

Galatians 2:16 ESV / 36 helpful votes

Yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.

Romans 3:10 ESV / 36 helpful votes

As it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one;

Psalm 97:2 ESV / 36 helpful votes

Clouds and thick darkness are all around him; righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.

Philippians 1:11 ESV / 35 helpful votes

Filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

1 Corinthians 1:30 ESV / 35 helpful votes

And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

Luke 6:33 ESV / 35 helpful votes

And if you do good to those who do good to you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

Proverbs 14:34 ESV / 35 helpful votes

Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.

Psalm 37:28 ESV / 35 helpful votes

For the Lord loves justice; he will not forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.

Titus 2:11-12 ESV / 33 helpful votes

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age,

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 33 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

Proverbs 21:21 ESV / 33 helpful votes

Whoever pursues righteousness and kindness will find life, righteousness, and honor.

Proverbs 21:2 ESV / 33 helpful votes

Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the heart.

Psalm 1:1 ESV / 33 helpful votes

Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers;

Genesis 15:6 ESV / 33 helpful votes

And he believed the Lord, and he counted it to him as righteousness.

Titus 3:5 ESV / 32 helpful votes

He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,

Hosea 10:12 ESV / 32 helpful votes

Sow for yourselves righteousness; reap steadfast love; break up your fallow ground, for it is the time to seek the Lord, that he may come and rain righteousness upon you.

James 1:4 ESV / 31 helpful votes

And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

Galatians 2:21 ESV / 31 helpful votes

I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose.

Malachi 4:2 ESV / 31 helpful votes

But for you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness shall rise with healing in its wings. You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall.

Psalm 119:10 ESV / 31 helpful votes

With my whole heart I seek you; let me not wander from your commandments!

Psalm 11:5 ESV / 31 helpful votes

The Lord tests the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence.

Romans 4:13 ESV / 29 helpful votes

For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith.

Romans 3:1-31 ESV / 29 helpful votes

Then what advantage has the Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision? Much in every way. To begin with, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God. What if some were unfaithful? Does their faithlessness nullify the faithfulness of God? By no means! Let God be true though every one were a liar, as it is written, “That you may be justified in your words, and prevail when you are judged.” But if our unrighteousness serves to show the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unrighteous to inflict wrath on us? (I speak in a human way.) ...

1 John 1:9 ESV / 28 helpful votes

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 28 helpful votes

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,

Romans 4:5 ESV / 28 helpful votes

And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness,

Romans 3:22 ESV / 28 helpful votes

The righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction:

Isaiah 30:18 ESV / 28 helpful votes

Therefore the Lord waits to be gracious to you, and therefore he exalts himself to show mercy to you. For the Lord is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him.

Proverbs 11:5 ESV / 28 helpful votes

The righteousness of the blameless keeps his way straight, but the wicked falls by his own wickedness.

Psalm 34:19 ESV / 28 helpful votes

Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all.

James 2:23 ESV / 27 helpful votes

And the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”—and he was called a friend of God.

Daniel 9:24 ESV / 27 helpful votes

“Seventy weeks are decreed about your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and to anoint a most holy place.

Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 26 helpful votes

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

1 Corinthians 15:34 ESV / 26 helpful votes

Wake up from your drunken stupor, as is right, and do not go on sinning. For some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

Romans 14:17 ESV / 26 helpful votes

For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Romans 5:19 ESV / 26 helpful votes

For as by the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man's obedience the many will be made righteous.

Romans 5:1-5 ESV / 26 helpful votes

Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

Romans 4:3 ESV / 26 helpful votes

For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.”

Acts 10:34-35 ESV / 26 helpful votes

So Peter opened his mouth and said: “Truly I understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him.

Jeremiah 23:6 ESV / 26 helpful votes

In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. And this is the name by which he will be called: ‘The Lord is our righteousness.’

Proverbs 20:25 ESV / 26 helpful votes

It is a snare to say rashly, “It is holy,” and to reflect only after making vows.

Matthew 23:1-39 ESV / 25 helpful votes

Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples, “The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses' seat, so do and observe whatever they tell you, but not the works they do. For they preach, but do not practice. They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on people's shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to move them with their finger. They do all their deeds to be seen by others. For they make their phylacteries broad and their fringes long, ...

Isaiah 45:21 ESV / 25 helpful votes

Declare and present your case; let them take counsel together! Who told this long ago? Who declared it of old? Was it not I, the Lord? And there is no other god besides me, a righteous God and a Savior; there is none besides me.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 24 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Romans 3:26 ESV / 24 helpful votes

It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

Proverbs 11:19 ESV / 24 helpful votes

Whoever is steadfast in righteousness will live, but he who pursues evil will die.

Matthew 6:1 ESV / 23 helpful votes

“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

Isaiah 54:17 ESV / 23 helpful votes

No weapon that is fashioned against you shall succeed, and you shall refute every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord and their vindication from me, declares the Lord.”

Psalm 9:8 ESV / 23 helpful votes

And he judges the world with righteousness; he judges the peoples with uprightness.

Deuteronomy 6:25 ESV / 23 helpful votes

And it will be righteousness for us, if we are careful to do all this commandment before the Lord our God, as he has commanded us.’

Titus 3:5-7 ESV / 22 helpful votes

He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

Galatians 3:6 ESV / 22 helpful votes

Just as Abraham “believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”?

Romans 10:10 ESV / 22 helpful votes

For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.

Job 37:23 ESV / 22 helpful votes

The Almighty—we cannot find him; he is great in power; justice and abundant righteousness he will not violate.

Romans 4:1-25 ESV / 21 helpful votes

What then shall we say was gained by Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh? For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.” Now to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due. And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness, ...

Psalm 96:13 ESV / 21 helpful votes

Before the Lord, for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness, and the peoples in his faithfulness.

Romans 4:9 ESV / 20 helpful votes

Is this blessing then only for the circumcised, or also for the uncircumcised? For we say that faith was counted to Abraham as righteousness.

Romans 4:11 ESV / 19 helpful votes

He received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was to make him the father of all who believe without being circumcised, so that righteousness would be counted to them as well,

Habakkuk 2:4 ESV / 19 helpful votes

“Behold, his soul is puffed up; it is not upright within him, but the righteous shall live by his faith.

Proverbs 29:7 ESV / 19 helpful votes

A righteous man knows the rights of the poor; a wicked man does not understand such knowledge.

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