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100 Bible Verses about Christs Righteousness

2 Corinthians 5:21 ESV / 61 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.

Philippians 3:9 ESV / 60 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—

Romans 1:17 ESV / 54 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.”

1 Corinthians 1:30 ESV / 53 helpful votes

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

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 48 helpful votes

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

Galatians 2:21 ESV / 47 helpful votes

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

Romans 10:4 ESV / 47 helpful votes

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

1 Peter 2:24 ESV / 46 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.

1 Peter 3:14 ESV / 45 helpful votes

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

Isaiah 61:10 ESV / 45 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.

Romans 3:22 ESV / 42 helpful votes

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

Matthew 5:6 ESV / 42 helpful votes

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

Matthew 5:20 ESV / 40 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 10:2 ESV / 38 helpful votes

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

Isaiah 64:6 ESV / 36 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.

James 3:18 ESV / 35 helpful votes

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

1 Timothy 6:11 ESV / 33 helpful votes

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

Romans 5:1 ESV / 33 helpful votes

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

Psalm 34:15 ESV / 33 helpful votes

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

Romans 5:19 ESV / 32 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.

1 John 2:29 ESV / 31 helpful votes

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

Titus 3:5 ESV / 31 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,

2 Timothy 2:22 ESV / 31 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.

Jeremiah 23:6 ESV / 31 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 14:34 ESV / 31 helpful votes

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

Galatians 2:16 ESV / 30 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 4:5 ESV / 30 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 4:3 ESV / 30 helpful votes

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

James 5:16 ESV / 29 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.

Malachi 4:2 ESV / 29 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.

Genesis 15:6 ESV / 29 helpful votes

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

Hebrews 12:11 ESV / 28 helpful votes

For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 28 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.

1 Corinthians 15:34 ESV / 28 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 5:17 ESV / 28 helpful votes

For if, because of one man's trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ.

Isaiah 54:17 ESV / 28 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.”

Hosea 10:12 ESV / 27 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.

Proverbs 21:3 ESV / 27 helpful votes

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

Romans 3:21-22 ESV / 26 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 112:6 ESV / 26 helpful votes

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

Romans 10:3 ESV / 25 helpful votes

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

Romans 4:11 ESV / 25 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,

James 2:23 ESV / 24 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.

Romans 4:13 ESV / 24 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.

1 John 3:7 ESV / 23 helpful votes

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

Philippians 1:11 ESV / 23 helpful votes

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

Romans 3:23 ESV / 23 helpful votes

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

Romans 3:10 ESV / 23 helpful votes

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

1 Peter 3:12 ESV / 22 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.”

Ephesians 4:24 ESV / 22 helpful votes

And to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 22 helpful votes

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

Romans 6:23 ESV / 22 helpful votes

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

Acts 10:34-35 ESV / 22 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.

Habakkuk 2:4 ESV / 22 helpful votes

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

Micah 6:8 ESV / 22 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?

Isaiah 53:11 ESV / 22 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.

Proverbs 21:21 ESV / 22 helpful votes

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

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 21 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,

1 John 3:10 ESV / 21 helpful votes

By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not love his brother.

Galatians 3:6 ESV / 21 helpful votes

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

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 21 helpful votes

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

2 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 21 helpful votes

Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

Romans 3:26 ESV / 21 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.

Romans 1:16-17 ESV / 21 helpful votes

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”

Proverbs 16:8 ESV / 21 helpful votes

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

James 4:8 ESV / 20 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.

Ephesians 6:14 ESV / 20 helpful votes

Stand therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

Galatians 3:13 ESV / 20 helpful votes

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”—

Romans 4:24 ESV / 20 helpful votes

But for ours also. It will be counted to us who believe in him who raised from the dead Jesus our Lord,

Isaiah 32:17 ESV / 20 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 11:18 ESV / 20 helpful votes

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

Deuteronomy 6:25 ESV / 20 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.’

1 Peter 3:2 ESV / 19 helpful votes

When they see your respectful and pure conduct.

1 Peter 2:2 ESV / 19 helpful votes

Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—

1 Thessalonians 5:15 ESV / 19 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 / 19 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 6:7 ESV / 19 helpful votes

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

Romans 3:25 ESV / 19 helpful votes

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 3:21 ESV / 19 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—

Romans 1:3 ESV / 19 helpful votes

Concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh

John 3:16-17 ESV / 19 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.

Luke 6:33 ESV / 19 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.

Matthew 6:3 ESV / 19 helpful votes

But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,

Isaiah 61:2 ESV / 19 helpful votes

To proclaim the year of the Lord's favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn;

Psalm 145:17 ESV / 19 helpful votes

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

Psalm 34:19 ESV / 19 helpful votes

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

Job 37:23 ESV / 19 helpful votes

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

Romans 9:30 ESV / 18 helpful votes

What shall we say, then? That Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have attained it, that is, a righteousness that is by faith;

Romans 5:2 ESV / 18 helpful votes

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.

Daniel 9:24 ESV / 18 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.

Isaiah 56:1 ESV / 18 helpful votes

Thus says the Lord: “Keep justice, and do righteousness, for soon my salvation will come, and my righteousness be revealed.

Proverbs 21:2 ESV / 18 helpful votes

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

Psalm 37:28 ESV / 18 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.

1 John 1:9 ESV / 17 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 3:5 ESV / 17 helpful votes

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.)

Proverbs 11:4 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.

1 John 5:18 ESV / 15 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.

2 Peter 1:1 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Simeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who have obtained a faith of equal standing with ours by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:

1 Peter 5:10 ESV / 15 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.

James 1:4 ESV / 15 helpful votes

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

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