Abraham drew near, and said, "Will you consume the righteous with the wicked?

Be it far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn't the Judge of all the earth do right?"

"'You shall do no injustice in judgment: you shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.

I will get my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

My righteousness is near, my salvation is gone forth, and my arms shall judge the peoples; the islands shall wait for me, and on my arm shall they trust. Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look on the earth beneath; for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment; and those who dwell therein shall die in the same way: but my salvation shall be forever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished. read more. "Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; do not fear the reproach of men, neither be dismayed at their insults. For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool; but my righteousness shall be forever, and my salvation to all generations."

For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron. I will also make your officers peace, and righteousness your ruler.

Righteous Father, the world hasn't known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me.

But now apart from the law, a righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified by the Law and the Prophets; even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all those who believe. For there is no distinction,

For being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

for the Kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

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

You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

I commanded your judges at that time, saying, "Hear cases between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the foreigner who is living with him.

You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for symbols between your eyes.

It shall be righteousness to us, if we observe to do all this commandment before the LORD our God, as he has commanded us."

It shall be righteousness to us, if we observe to do all this commandment before the LORD our God, as he has commanded us."

You shall make judges and officers in all your gates, which the LORD your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

you shall surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his garment, and bless you: and it shall be righteousness to you before the LORD your God.

If there is a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, and the judges judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked;

The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice: a God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and right is he.

then hear in heaven, and do, and judge your servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way on his own head, and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.

Blessed is the man who doesn't walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand in the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. For the LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.

Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous; their minds and hearts are searched by the righteous God.

For the LORD is righteous. He loves righteousness. The upright shall see his face.

There they were in great fear, for God is in the generation of the righteous.

They shall come and shall declare his righteousness to a people that shall be born, for he has done it.

He shall receive a blessing from the LORD, righteousness from the God of his salvation.

I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly. Behold, I will not seal my lips, LORD, you know.

Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne. Loving kindness and truth go before your face.

Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.

The LORD has made known his salvation. He has openly shown his righteousness in the sight of the nations.

That was credited to him for righteousness, for all generations to come.

This is the gate of the LORD; the righteous will enter into it.

I will give thanks to you with uprightness of heart, when I learn your righteous judgments.

GIMEL. Do good to your servant. I will live and I will obey your word.

At midnight I will rise to give thanks to you, because of your righteous ordinances.

LORD, I know that your judgments are righteous, that in faithfulness you have humbled me.

The LORD is righteous in all his ways, and gracious in all his works.

Better is a little with righteousness, than great revenues with injustice.

Righteous lips are the delight of kings. They value one who speaks the truth.

Moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.

I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward you shall be called 'The city of righteousness, a faithful town.' Zion shall be redeemed with justice, and her converts with righteousness.

Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, and wickedness as with cart rope;

who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice for the innocent.

who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice for the innocent.

For though your people, Israel, are like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. A destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness.

but with righteousness he will judge the poor, and decide with equity for the humble of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips he will kill the wicked. Righteousness will be the belt of his waist, and faithfulness the belt of his waist.

A throne will be established in loving kindness. One will sit on it in truth, in the tent of David, judging, seeking justice, and swift to do righteousness.

"But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend, You whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth, and called from its corners, and said to you, 'You are my servant, I have chosen you and not cast you away;' read more. Do not be afraid, for I am with you. Do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness. Behold, all those who are incensed against you will be disappointed and confounded. Those who strive with you will be like nothing, and shall perish.

It pleased the LORD, for his righteousness' sake, to magnify the law, and make it honorable.

Distil, you heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness. Let the earth open, that it may bring forth salvation, and let it cause righteousness to spring up with it. I, the LORD, have created it.

I bring near my righteousness, it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not wait; and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.

"Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek the LORD: look to the rock you were cut from, and to the hold of the pit you were dug from.

Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look on the earth beneath; for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment; and those who dwell therein shall die in the same way: but my salvation shall be forever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished. "Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; do not fear the reproach of men, neither be dismayed at their insults.

"Isn't this the fast that I have chosen: to release the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?

Therefore is justice far from us, neither does righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.

For as the earth brings forth its bud, and as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.

For Zion's sake I will not keep silent, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until her righteousness go forth as brightness, and her salvation as a lamp that burns.

You are righteous, LORD, when I contend with you; yet I would reason the cause with you: why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are they all at ease who deal very treacherously?

"But if a man is just, and does that which is lawful and right, and has not eaten on the mountains, neither has lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither has defiled his neighbor's wife, neither has come near to a woman in her impurity, read more. and has not wronged any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has taken nothing by robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment; he who has not given forth on interest, neither has taken any increase, who has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed true justice between man and man, has walked in my statutes, and has kept my ordinances, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live," says the Lord GOD.

You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth:

Saying, 'When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel large, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;

Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, and with a bag of deceitful weights?

You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously, and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,

But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.

But Jesus, answering, said to him, "Allow it now, for this is the fitting way for us to fulfill all righteousness." Then he allowed him.

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.

Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

For I tell you that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, there is no way you will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

"Be careful that you do not do your righteousness before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

"Be careful that you do not do your righteousness before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

But seek first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. When you saw it, you did not even repent afterward, that you might believe him.

When he has come, he will convict the world about sin, and about righteousness, and about judgment;

about righteousness, because I am going to the Father, and you won't see me any more;

For in it is revealed God's righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, "But the righteous shall live by faith."

But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are storing up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;

We see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.

The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt. They have done abominable works. There is none who does good. The LORD looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who did understand, who did seek after God. read more. They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is none who does good, no, not one.

As it is written, "There is no one righteous; no, not one.

For what does the Scripture say? "And Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness."

But to him who does not work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited as righteousness.

Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit to God.

For being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

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

I do not make void the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing."

Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness. You know that he was revealed to take away sins, and in him is no sin. read more. Whoever remains in him does not 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.

It was given to her that she would array herself in bright, pure, fine linen: for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.