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100 Bible Verses about Righteous Man

James 5:16 ESV / 91 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.

2 Corinthians 5:21 ESV / 65 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 / 58 helpful votes

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

Genesis 6:8-9 ESV / 48 helpful votes

But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord. These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God.

Romans 3:10 ESV / 46 helpful votes

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

Psalm 34:15 ESV / 46 helpful votes

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

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,

Romans 1:17 ESV / 45 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.”

Genesis 15:6 ESV / 43 helpful votes

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

1 Timothy 6:11 ESV / 42 helpful votes

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

Romans 5:19 ESV / 42 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.

James 3:18 ESV / 40 helpful votes

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

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 37 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.

Proverbs 10:2 ESV / 36 helpful votes

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

Hosea 10:12 ESV / 34 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 / 33 helpful votes

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

Matthew 5:20 ESV / 32 helpful votes

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

Matthew 5:6 ESV / 32 helpful votes

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

1 John 2:29 ESV / 30 helpful votes

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

1 Peter 3:12 ESV / 30 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.”

Acts 10:22 ESV / 30 helpful votes

And they said, “Cornelius, a centurion, an upright and God-fearing man, who is well spoken of by the whole Jewish nation, was directed by a holy angel to send for you to come to his house and to hear what you have to say.”

John 9:31 ESV / 30 helpful votes

We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does his will, God listens to him.

1 Peter 2:24 ESV / 29 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 John 3:7 ESV / 28 helpful votes

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

Psalm 112:6 ESV / 28 helpful votes

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

Romans 10:4 ESV / 26 helpful votes

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

Ezekiel 18:5-9 ESV / 26 helpful votes

“If a man is righteous and does what is just and right— if he does not eat upon the mountains or lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor's wife or approach a woman in her time of menstrual impurity, does not oppress anyone, but restores to the debtor his pledge, commits no robbery, gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with a garment, does not lend at interest or take any profit, withholds his hand from injustice, executes true justice between man and man, walks in my statutes, and keeps my rules by acting faithfully—he is righteous; he shall surely live, declares the Lord God.

Isaiah 64:6 ESV / 26 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.

2 Timothy 2:22 ESV / 25 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.

Philippians 3:9 ESV / 25 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—

Genesis 6:9 ESV / 25 helpful votes

These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God.

Galatians 6:7 ESV / 24 helpful votes

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

Romans 10:10 ESV / 24 helpful votes

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

Romans 3:23 ESV / 24 helpful votes

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

Matthew 23:1-39 ESV / 24 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, ...

Daniel 12:3 ESV / 24 helpful votes

And those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the sky above; and those who turn many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever.

Romans 5:17 ESV / 22 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.

Proverbs 21:21 ESV / 22 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 15:29 ESV / 22 helpful votes

The Lord is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.

Psalm 106:3 ESV / 22 helpful votes

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

Psalm 5:12 ESV / 22 helpful votes

For you bless the righteous, O Lord; you cover him with favor as with a shield.

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.

1 Thessalonians 5:15 ESV / 20 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 / 20 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 3:20 ESV / 20 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.

Romans 2:6 ESV / 20 helpful votes

He will render to each one according to his works:

John 3:16-17 ESV / 20 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 / 20 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 21:2 ESV / 20 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 11:18 ESV / 20 helpful votes

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

Psalm 119:10 ESV / 20 helpful votes

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

Psalm 37:28 ESV / 20 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.

Psalm 34:19 ESV / 20 helpful votes

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

Psalm 1:1 ESV / 20 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;

1 John 1:9 ESV / 18 helpful votes

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

2 Peter 2:7 ESV / 18 helpful votes

And if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked

James 2:24 ESV / 18 helpful votes

You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.

James 2:23 ESV / 18 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.

James 1:4 ESV / 18 helpful votes

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

Hebrews 11:4 ESV / 18 helpful votes

By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks.

Titus 2:11-12 ESV / 18 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,

Galatians 2:21 ESV / 18 helpful votes

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

Romans 4:9 ESV / 18 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 4:3 ESV / 18 helpful votes

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

Luke 23:47 ESV / 18 helpful votes

Now when the centurion saw what had taken place, he praised God, saying, “Certainly this man was innocent!”

Luke 2:25 ESV / 18 helpful votes

Now there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon, and this man was righteous and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him.

Proverbs 20:25 ESV / 18 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 11:19 ESV / 18 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 11:5 ESV / 18 helpful votes

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

Deuteronomy 6:25 ESV / 18 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 John 5:18 ESV / 16 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.

1 Peter 5:10 ESV / 16 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.

Hebrews 11:7 ESV / 16 helpful votes

By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

1 Thessalonians 5:17 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Pray without ceasing,

Philippians 1:11 ESV / 16 helpful votes

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

Romans 14:17 ESV / 16 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 8:4-6 ESV / 16 helpful votes

In order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.

Romans 5:1-5 ESV / 16 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 4:13 ESV / 16 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 4:11 ESV / 16 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,

Romans 4:5 ESV / 16 helpful votes

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

Acts 24:15 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Having a hope in God, which these men themselves accept, that there will be a resurrection of both the just and the unjust.

Malachi 4:2 ESV / 16 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.

Malachi 3:3 ESV / 16 helpful votes

He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, and they will bring offerings in righteousness to the Lord.

Isaiah 53:11 ESV / 16 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.

Isaiah 33:15-17 ESV / 16 helpful votes

He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly, who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands, lest they hold a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed and shuts his eyes from looking on evil, he will dwell on the heights; his place of defense will be the fortresses of rocks; his bread will be given him; his water will be sure. Your eyes will behold the king in his beauty; they will see a land that stretches afar.

Proverbs 29:7 ESV / 16 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 14:34 ESV / 16 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 2:5-20 ESV / 16 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; ...

Psalm 37:25 ESV / 16 helpful votes

I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken or his children begging for bread.

Genesis 18:23-32 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Then Abraham drew near and said, “Will you indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked? Suppose there are fifty righteous within the city. Will you then sweep away the place and not spare it for the fifty righteous who are in it? Far be it from you to do such a thing, to put the righteous to death with the wicked, so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from you! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?” And the Lord said, “If I find at Sodom fifty righteous in the city, I will spare the whole place for their sake.” Abraham answered and said, “Behold, I have undertaken to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and ashes. ...

Romans 6:23 ESV / 15 helpful votes

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

Hebrews 11:1-40 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the people of old received their commendation. By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible. By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks. By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God. ...

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 12 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 3:22 ESV / 12 helpful votes

And whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.

2 Peter 2:8 ESV / 12 helpful votes

(for as that righteous man lived among them day after day, he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard);

1 Peter 4:17 ESV / 12 helpful votes

For it is time for judgment to begin at the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God?

James 1:20 ESV / 12 helpful votes

For the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.

Titus 3:5 ESV / 12 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,

Titus 3:5-7 ESV / 12 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.

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