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100 Bible Verses about Righteousness Of God

2 Corinthians 5:21 ESV / 336 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.

1 Peter 3:14 ESV / 209 helpful votes

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

Romans 1:17 ESV / 208 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.”

Philippians 3:9 ESV / 194 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—

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 193 helpful votes

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

Psalm 11:7 ESV / 170 helpful votes

For the Lord is righteous; he loves righteous deeds; the upright shall behold his face.

Romans 3:23 ESV / 167 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 21:3 ESV / 165 helpful votes

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

1 John 2:29 ESV / 164 helpful votes

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

Romans 6:23 ESV / 163 helpful votes

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

Matthew 5:6 ESV / 162 helpful votes

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

Micah 6:8 ESV / 156 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 2:24 ESV / 151 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.

Matthew 5:20 ESV / 150 helpful votes

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

Romans 10:4 ESV / 147 helpful votes

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

1 Corinthians 1:30 ESV / 143 helpful votes

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

James 3:18 ESV / 140 helpful votes

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

Psalm 145:17 ESV / 137 helpful votes

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

1 Timothy 6:11 ESV / 135 helpful votes

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

1 Peter 3:12 ESV / 134 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.”

2 Timothy 2:22 ESV / 133 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.

Psalm 34:15 ESV / 133 helpful votes

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

James 5:16 ESV / 132 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.

Galatians 2:16 ESV / 132 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 5:1 ESV / 128 helpful votes

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

Jeremiah 23:6 ESV / 127 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.’

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 126 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.

Isaiah 61:10 ESV / 122 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.

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 112 helpful votes

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

1 John 3:7 ESV / 111 helpful votes

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

Romans 3:20 ESV / 111 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.

1 John 1:9 ESV / 106 helpful votes

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

Romans 3:21 ESV / 104 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—

Isaiah 53:11 ESV / 104 helpful votes

Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities.

Romans 4:5 ESV / 101 helpful votes

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

1 John 5:18 ESV / 100 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.

Philippians 1:11 ESV / 100 helpful votes

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

James 1:4 ESV / 99 helpful votes

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

1 Peter 5:10 ESV / 97 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.

Romans 5:1-5 ESV / 96 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.

Genesis 15:6 ESV / 96 helpful votes

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

Malachi 4:2 ESV / 95 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.

Daniel 9:24 ESV / 95 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.

Psalm 106:3 ESV / 95 helpful votes

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

Galatians 6:7 ESV / 94 helpful votes

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

Galatians 3:6 ESV / 94 helpful votes

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

Psalm 33:4 ESV / 94 helpful votes

For the word of the Lord is upright, and all his work is done in faithfulness.

Psalm 11:5 ESV / 94 helpful votes

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

2 Peter 1:4 ESV / 92 helpful votes

By which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire.

Proverbs 10:2 ESV / 92 helpful votes

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

Romans 5:19 ESV / 91 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.

Proverbs 21:21 ESV / 91 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 14:34 ESV / 90 helpful votes

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

Psalm 112:6 ESV / 90 helpful votes

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

Galatians 3:28 ESV / 89 helpful votes

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

1 Corinthians 15:34 ESV / 89 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 3:22 ESV / 89 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 11:18 ESV / 89 helpful votes

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

Galatians 2:21 ESV / 88 helpful votes

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

Romans 4:11 ESV / 88 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,

Psalm 34:19 ESV / 88 helpful votes

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

Acts 10:34-35 ESV / 87 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.

Job 37:23 ESV / 87 helpful votes

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

Titus 3:5 ESV / 86 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,

Amos 5:24 ESV / 86 helpful votes

But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

Romans 3:21-26 ESV / 83 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— the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. ...

Romans 4:3 ESV / 82 helpful votes

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

Isaiah 30:18 ESV / 82 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.

Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 79 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.

Hosea 10:12 ESV / 79 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.

Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 78 helpful votes

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

1 John 2:1 ESV / 74 helpful votes

My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.

Titus 3:5-7 ESV / 74 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.

Isaiah 64:6 ESV / 74 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 / 72 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.

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 71 helpful votes

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

Romans 3:21-22 ESV / 71 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— the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction:

Psalm 119:137 ESV / 70 helpful votes

Righteous are you, O Lord, and right are your rules.

Ephesians 1:7 ESV / 69 helpful votes

In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

Proverbs 11:5 ESV / 69 helpful votes

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

James 2:23 ESV / 67 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.

Ephesians 4:22-24 ESV / 67 helpful votes

To put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.

Romans 4:9 ESV / 67 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 4:1-25 ESV / 67 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, ...

Romans 3:10 ESV / 67 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 2:5-20 ESV / 66 helpful votes

Then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God. For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding; he stores up sound wisdom for the upright; he is a shield to those who walk in integrity, guarding the paths of justice and watching over the way of his saints. Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path; ...

Colossians 3:11 ESV / 65 helpful votes

Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all.

Romans 3:1-31 ESV / 65 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.) ...

Philippians 2:13 ESV / 63 helpful votes

For it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

Romans 4:13 ESV / 63 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.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 63 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Matthew 6:1 ESV / 63 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.

Psalm 37:28 ESV / 63 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.

Isaiah 32:17 ESV / 62 helpful votes

And the effect of righteousness will be peace, and the result of righteousness, quietness and trust forever.

Galatians 6:9 ESV / 61 helpful votes

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

Romans 10:12 ESV / 61 helpful votes

For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him.

Isaiah 28:17 ESV / 61 helpful votes

And I will make justice the line, and righteousness the plumb line; and hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and waters will overwhelm the shelter.”

Psalm 119:10 ESV / 61 helpful votes

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

James 4:8 ESV / 60 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 Thessalonians 5:15 ESV / 59 helpful votes

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

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