Bible verses about "righteousness" | ISV

²⁰ because I tell you, unless your righteousness greatly exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom from heaven!”

⁴ For the Messiah is the culmination of the Law as far as righteousness is concerned for everyone who believes.

²¹ God made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that God’s righteousness would be produced in us.

²² Flee from youthful passions. Instead, pursue righteousness, faithfulness, love, and peace together with those who call on the Lord with a pure heart.

¹⁴ But even if you should suffer for doing what is right, you are blessed. “Never be afraid of their threats, and never get upset.

¹⁰ After you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who called you by the Messiah Jesus to his eternal glory, will restore you, establish you, strengthen you, and support you.

³ How happy are those who enforce justice, who live righteously all the time.

¹⁵ The one who walks righteously and has spoken sincere words, who rejects gain from extortion and waves his hand, rejecting bribes, who blocks his ears from hearing plots of murder and shuts his eyes against seeing evil— ¹⁶ this is the one who will live on the heights; his refuge will be a mountain fortress. His food will be supplied, and his water will be guaranteed. ¹⁷ “Your eyes will see the king in his elegance, and will view a land that stretches afar.

¹ We Enjoy Peace with God through JesusTherefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus the Messiah. ² Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace by which we have been established, and we boast because of our hope in God’s glory. ³ Not only that, but we also boast in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, ⁴ endurance produces character, and character produces hope. ⁵ Now this hope does not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.

²⁹ Since you know that he is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been fathered by God.

⁷ Little children, don’t let anyone deceive you. The person who practices righteousness is righteous, just as the Messiah is righteous.