|
Words of Wisdom
|
Reference
|
|
And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
|
Genesis 7
:1
|
|
And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.
|
Genesis 15
:6
|
And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?
Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?
That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.
|
Genesis 18
:23-26
|
|
But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, LORD, wilt thou slay also a righteous nation?
|
Genesis 20
:4
|
|
So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me.
|
Genesis 30
:33
|
|
And Judah acknowledged them, and said, She hath been more righteous than I; because that I gave her not to Shelah my son. And he knew her again no more.
|
Genesis 38
:26
|
|
And Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said unto them, I have sinned this time: the LORD is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.
|
Exodus 9
:27
|
Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.
And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.
|
Exodus 23
:7, 8
|
|
Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbor.
|
Leviticus 19
:15
|
|
Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!
|
Numbers 23
:10
|
|
And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.
|
Deuteronomy 1
:16
|
|
And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?
|
Deuteronomy 4
:8
|
|
And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the LORD our God, as he hath commanded us.
|
Deuteronomy 6
:25
|
Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the LORD thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the LORD hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive them out from before thee.
Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked people.
|
Deuteronomy 9
:4-6
|
|
Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
|
Deuteronomy 16
:19
|
|
In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the LORD thy God.
|
Deuteronomy 24
:13
|
|
If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.
|
Deuteronomy 25
:1
|
|
They shall call the people unto the mountain; there they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness: for they shall suck of the abundance of the seas, and of treasures hid in the sand.
|
Deuteronomy 33
:19
|
|
They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the LORD, even the righteous acts toward the inhabitants of his villages in Israel: then shall the people of the LORD go down to the gates.
|
Judges 5
:11
|
|
Now therefore stand still, that I may reason with you before the LORD of all the righteous acts of the LORD, which he did to you and to your fathers.
|
1 Samuel 12
:7
|
|
And he said to David, Thou art more righteous than I: for thou hast rewarded me good, whereas I have rewarded thee evil.
|
1 Samuel 24
:17
|
|
The LORD render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness; for the LORD delivered thee into my hand to day, but I would not stretch forth mine hand against the LORD's anointed.
|
1 Samuel 26
:23
|
|
How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed? shall I not therefore now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?
|
2 Samuel 4
:11
|
|
The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness: according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
|
2 Samuel 22
:21
|
|
And the LORD shall return his blood upon his own head, who fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the sword, my father David not knowing thereof, to wit, Abner the son of Ner, captain of the host of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of Judah.
|
1 Kings 2
:32
|
|
And Solomon said, Thou hast showed unto thy servant David my father great mercy, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.
|
1 Kings 3
:6
|
|
Then hear thou in heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.
|
1 Kings 8
:32
|
|
And it came to pass in the morning, that he went out, and stood, and said to all the people, Ye be righteous: behold, I conspired against my master, and slew him: but who slew all these?
|
2 Kings 10
:9
|
|
Then hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, by requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way upon his own head; and by justifying the righteous, by giving him according to his righteousness.
|
2 Chronicles 6
:23
|
|
Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, The LORD is righteous.
|
2 Chronicles 12
:6
|
|
O LORD God of Israel, thou art righteous: for we remain yet escaped, as it is this day: behold, we are before thee in our trespasses: for we cannot stand before thee because of this.
|
Ezra 9
:15
|
|
And foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to give it, I say, to his seed, and hast performed thy words; for thou art righteous:
|
Nehemiah 9
:8
|
|
Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?
|
Job 4
:7
|
|
Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.
|
Job 6
:29
|
|
If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
|
Job 8
:6
|
|
Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.
|
Job 9
:15
|
|
If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;
|
Job 10
:15
|
|
What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
|
Job 15
:14
|
|
The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
|
Job 17
:9
|
|
Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways perfect?
|
Job 22
:3
|
|
There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.
|
Job 23
:7
|
|
My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
|
Job 27
:6
|
|
I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.
|
Job 29
:14
|
|
So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
|
Job 32
:1
|
|
He shall pray unto God, and he will be favourable unto him: and he shall see his face with joy: for he will render unto man his righteousness.
|
Job 33
:26
|
|
For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.
|
Job 34
:5
|
|
Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?
|
Job 35
:2
|
|
I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
|
Job 36
:3
|
|
Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?
|
Job 40
:8
|
Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.
|
Psalms 1
:5, 6
|
|
Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.
|
Psalms 4
:1
|
|
Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face.
|
Psalms 5
:8
|
The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me.
Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.
|
Psalms 7
:8, 9
|
|
And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.
|
Psalms 9
:8
|
|
If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?
|
Psalms 11
:3
|
|
There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous.
|
Psalms 14
:5
|
|
He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.
|
Psalms 15
:2
|
|
As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.
|
Psalms 17
:15
|
|
The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
|
Psalms 18
:20
|
|
The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.
|
Psalms 19
:9
|
|
They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done this.
|
Psalms 22
:31
|
|
He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
|
Psalms 23
:3
|
|
He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
|
Psalms 24
:5
|
|
In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness.
|
Psalms 31
:1
|
|
Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart.
|
Psalms 32
:11
|
|
Rejoice in the LORD, O ye righteous: for praise is comely for the upright.
|
Psalms 33
:1
|
|
The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.
|
Psalms 34
:15
|
|
Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me.
|
Psalms 35
:24
|
|
Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.
|
Psalms 36
:6
|
|
And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.
|
Psalms 37
:6
|
I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.
I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.
|
Psalms 40
:9, 10
|
|
And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.
|
Psalms 45
:4
|
|
According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness.
|
Psalms 48
:10
|
|
And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah.
|
Psalms 50
:6
|
|
Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.
|
Psalms 51
:14
|
|
Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.
|
Psalms 52
:3
|
|
Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.
|
Psalms 55
:22
|
|
Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
|
Psalms 58
:1
|
|
The righteous shall be glad in the LORD, and shall trust in him; and all the upright in heart shall glory.
|
Psalms 64
:10
|
|
By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation; who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea:
|
Psalms 65
:5
|
|
O let the nations be glad and sing for joy: for thou shalt judge the people righteously, and govern the nations upon earth. Selah.
|
Psalms 67
:4
|
|
But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God: yea, let them exceedingly rejoice.
|
Psalms 68
:3
|
Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.
Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.
|
Psalms 69
:27, 28
|
|
Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline thine ear unto me, and save me.
|
Psalms 71
:2
|
Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king's son.
He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment.
The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, by righteousness.
|
Psalms 72
:1-3
|
|
All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.
|
Psalms 75
:10
|
Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven.
|
Psalms 85
:10, 11
|
|
Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
|
Psalms 88
:12
|
|
In thy name shall they rejoice all the day: and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted.
|
Psalms 89
:16
|
|
The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
|
Psalms 92
:12
|
|
But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it.
|
Psalms 94
:15
|
|
Say among the heathen that the LORD reigneth: the world also shall be established that it shall not be moved: he shall judge the people righteously.
|
Psalms 96
:10
|
|
Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne.
|
Psalms 97
:2
|
|
The LORD hath made known his salvation: his righteousness hath he openly shewed in the sight of the heathen.
|
Psalms 98
:2
|
|
The king's strength also loveth judgment; thou dost establish equity, thou executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob.
|
Psalms 99
:4
|
|
The LORD executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.
|
Psalms 103
:6
|
|
Blessed are they that keep judgment, and he that doeth righteousness at all times.
|
Psalms 106
:3
|
|
The righteous shall see it, and rejoice: and all iniquity shall stop her mouth.
|
Psalms 107
:42
|
|
His work is honourable and glorious: and his righteousness endureth for ever.
|
Psalms 111
:3
|
Wealth and riches shall be in his house: and his righteousness endureth for ever.
Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.
|
Psalms 112
:3, 4
|
|
Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful.
|
Psalms 116
:5
|
|
The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous: the right hand of the LORD doeth valiantly.
|
Psalms 118
:15
|
|
I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments.
|
Psalms 119
:7
|
|
For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity.
|
Psalms 125
:3
|
|
The LORD is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.
|
Psalms 129
:4
|
|
Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness; and let thy saints shout for joy.
|
Psalms 132
:9
|
|
Surely the righteous shall give thanks unto thy name: the upright shall dwell in thy presence.
|
Psalms 140
:13
|
|
Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.
|
Psalms 141
:5
|
|
Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the righteous shall compass me about; for thou shalt deal bountifully with me.
|
Psalms 142
:7
|
|
Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness.
|
Psalms 143
:1
|
|
They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness, and shall sing of thy righteousness.
|
Psalms 145
:7
|
|
The LORD openeth the eyes of the blind: the LORD raiseth them that are bowed down: the LORD loveth the righteous:
|
Psalms 146
:8
|
|
He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.
|
Proverbs 2
:7
|
|
For the froward is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous.
|
Proverbs 3
:32
|
|
All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them.
|
Proverbs 8
:8
|
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.
The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked.
|
Proverbs 10
:2, 3
|
Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.
The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness.
|
Proverbs 11
:4-6
|
|
A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.
|
Proverbs 12
:3
|
A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame.
Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.
|
Proverbs 13
:5, 6
|
|
Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favour.
|
Proverbs 14
:9
|
|
In the house of the righteous is much treasure: but in the revenues of the wicked is trouble.
|
Proverbs 15
:6
|
|
Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.
|
Proverbs 16
:8
|
|
It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment.
|
Proverbs 18
:5
|
|
The righteous man wisely considereth the house of the wicked: but God overthroweth the wicked for their wickedness.
|
Proverbs 21
:12
|
|
The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.
|
Proverbs 23
:24
|
|
Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; spoil not his resting place:
|
Proverbs 24
:15
|
|
Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.
|
Proverbs 25
:5
|
|
The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.
|
Proverbs 28
:1
|
|
When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.
|
Proverbs 29
:2
|
|
Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.
|
Proverbs 31
:9
|
And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.
I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.
|
Ecclesiastes 3
:16, 17
|
All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness.
Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself ?
|
Ecclesiastes 7
:15, 16
|
|
There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.
|
Ecclesiastes 8
:14
|
For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them.
All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
|
Ecclesiastes 9
:1, 2
|
|
How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
|
Isaiah 1
:21
|
|
Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
|
Isaiah 3
:10
|
|
For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
|
Isaiah 5
:7
|
|
For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness.
|
Isaiah 10
:22
|
But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth: with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
|
Isaiah 11
:4, 5
|
|
And in mercy shall the throne be established: and he shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness.
|
Isaiah 16
:5
|
|
From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, even glory to the righteous. But I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.
|
Isaiah 24
:16
|
|
Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in.
|
Isaiah 26
:2
|
|
Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
|
Isaiah 28
:17
|
|
Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment.
|
Isaiah 32
:1
|
|
The LORD is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath filled Zion with judgment and righteousness.
|
Isaiah 33
:5
|
|
Who raised up the righteous man from the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings? he gave them as the dust to his sword, and as driven stubble to his bow.
|
Isaiah 41
:2
|
|
I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;
|
Isaiah 42
:6
|
|
Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the LORD have created it.
|
Isaiah 45
:8
|
Hearken unto me, ye stouthearted, that are far from righteousness:
I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not tarry: and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.
|
Isaiah 46
:12, 13
|
|
Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah, which swear by the name of the LORD, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness.
|
Isaiah 48
:1
|
|
Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.
|
Isaiah 51
:1
|
|
He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
|
Isaiah 53
:11
|
|
In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far from oppression; for thou shalt not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near thee.
|
Isaiah 54
:14
|
|
Thus saith the LORD, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.
|
Isaiah 56
:1
|
|
The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.
|
Isaiah 57
:1
|
|
Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.
|
Isaiah 58
:2
|
And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.
For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak.
|
Isaiah 59
:16, 17
|
|
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 thy officers peace, and thine exactors righteousness.
|
Isaiah 60
:17
|
|
To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.
|
Isaiah 61
:3
|
For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.
And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the LORD shall name.
|
Isaiah 62
:1, 2
|
|
Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.
|
Isaiah 63
:1
|
Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.
But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
|
Isaiah 64
:5, 6
|
|
And thou shalt swear, The LORD liveth, in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.
|
Jeremiah 4
:2
|
|
But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the LORD.
|
Jeremiah 9
:24
|
|
But, O LORD of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause.
|
Jeremiah 11
:20
|
|
Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
|
Jeremiah 12
:1
|
|
But, O LORD of hosts, that triest the righteous, and seest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I opened my cause.
|
Jeremiah 20
:12
|
|
Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.
|
Jeremiah 22
:3
|
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.
In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
|
Jeremiah 23
:5, 6
|
In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land.
In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely: and this is the name wherewith she shall be called, The LORD our righteousness.
|
Jeremiah 33
:15, 16
|
|
The LORD hath brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.
|
Jeremiah 51
:10
|
|
The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.
|
Lamentations 1
:18
|
Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling-block before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul.
|
Ezekiel 3
:20, 21
|
|
Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life:
|
Ezekiel 13
:22
|
|
Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord GOD.
|
Ezekiel 14
:14
|
|
Thou also, which hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own shame for thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable than they: they are more righteous than thou: yea, be thou confounded also, and bear thy shame, in that thou hast justified thy sisters.
|
Ezekiel 16
:52
|
|
The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
|
Ezekiel 18
:20
|
And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I am against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of his sheath, and will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked.
Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of his sheath against all flesh from the south to the north:
|
Ezekiel 21
:3, 4
|
|
And the righteous men, they shall judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.
|
Ezekiel 23
:45
|
Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth.
When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he hath committed, he shall die for it.
|
Ezekiel 33
:12, 13
|
|
Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity.
|
Daniel 4
:27
|
|
O LORD, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee.
|
Daniel 9
:7
|
|
And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.
|
Daniel 12
:3
|
|
And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies.
|
Hosea 2
:19
|
|
Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.
|
Hosea 10
:12
|
|
Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;
|
Amos 2
:6
|
|
Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,
|
Amos 5
:7
|
|
Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:
|
Amos 6
:12
|
|
O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim unto Gilgal; that ye may know the righteousness of the LORD.
|
Micah 6
:5
|
|
I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.
|
Micah 7
:9
|
|
Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.
|
Habakkuk 1
:4
|
|
Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD's anger.
|
Zephaniah 2
:3
|
|
And I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness.
|
Zechariah 8
:8
|
|
And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.
|
Malachi 3
:3
|
|
But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
|
Malachi 4
:2
|
|
And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him.
|
Matthew 3
:15
|
|
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
|
Matthew 5
:6
|
|
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
|
Matthew 6
:33
|
|
But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
|
Matthew 9
:13
|
|
He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward; and he that receiveth a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man's reward.
|
Matthew 10
:41
|
|
For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.
|
Matthew 13
:17
|
|
For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not: but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and ye, when ye had seen it, repented not afterward, that ye might believe him.
|
Matthew 21
:32
|
Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,
|
Matthew 23
:28, 29
|
|
Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?
|
Matthew 25
:37
|
|
When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
|
Mark 2
:17
|
|
And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
|
Luke 1
:6
|
|
I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
|
Luke 5
:32
|
|
And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others:
|
Luke 18
:9
|
|
Now when the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, Certainly this was a righteous man.
|
Luke 23
:47
|
|
Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.
|
John 7
:24
|
|
And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:
|
John 16
:8
|
|
O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.
|
John 17
:25
|
|
But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.
|
Acts 10
:35
|
|
And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
|
Acts 13
:10
|
|
Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
|
Acts 17
:31
|
|
And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this time; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee.
|
Acts 24
:25
|
|
For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
|
Romans 1
:17
|
|
But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
|
Romans 2
:5
|
|
But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)
|
Romans 3
:5
|
|
For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.
|
Romans 4
:3
|
|
For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.
|
Romans 5
:7
|
|
Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
|
Romans 6
:13
|
|
That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
|
Romans 8
:4
|
|
For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.
|
Romans 9
:28
|
For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them.
But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above:)
|
Romans 10
:3-6
|
|
For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.
|
Romans 14
:17
|
|
But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
|
1 Corinthians 1
:30
|
|
Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.
|
1 Corinthians 15
:34
|
|
For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
|
2 Corinthians 3
:9
|
|
For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
|
2 Corinthians 5
:21
|
|
By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
|
2 Corinthians 6
:7
|
(As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the poor: his righteousness remaineth for ever.
Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;)
|
2 Corinthians 9
:9, 10
|
|
Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
|
2 Corinthians 11
:15
|
|
I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
|
Galatians 2
:21
|
|
Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.
|
Galatians 3
:6
|
|
For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.
|
Galatians 5
:5
|
|
And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
|
Ephesians 4
:24
|
|
(For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)
|
Ephesians 5
:9
|
|
Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
|
Ephesians 6
:14
|
|
Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
|
Philippians 1
:11
|
|
Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.
|
Philippians 3
:6
|
Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:
Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;
|
2 Thessalonians 1
:5, 6
|
|
Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
|
1 Timothy 1
:9
|
|
But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.
|
1 Timothy 6
:11
|
|
Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
|
2 Timothy 2
:22
|
|
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
|
2 Timothy 3
:16
|
|
Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.
|
2 Timothy 4
:8
|
|
Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
|
Titus 2
:12
|
|
Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
|
Titus 3
:5
|
But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.
Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
|
Hebrews 1
:8, 9
|
|
For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.
|
Hebrews 5
:13
|
|
To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem, which is, King of peace;
|
Hebrews 7
:2
|
|
By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.
|
Hebrews 11
:4
|
|
Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
|
Hebrews 12
:11
|
|
For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
|
James 1
:20
|
|
And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.
|
James 2
:23
|
|
And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
|
James 3
:18
|
|
Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
|
James 5
:16
|
Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:
Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
|
1 Peter 2
:23, 24
|
|
For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.
|
1 Peter 3
:12
|
|
And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
|
1 Peter 4
:18
|
|
Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:
|
2 Peter 1
:1
|
|
And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
|
2 Peter 2
:5
|
|
Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
|
2 Peter 3
:13
|
|
My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
|
1 John 2
:1
|
|
Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
|
1 John 3
:7
|
|
And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.
|
Revelation 16
:5
|
|
For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.
|
Revelation 19
:2
|
|
He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.
|
Revelation 22
:11
|
R
Back to the top