Righteousness (Bible Verses)

What does the Bible say about Righteousness? Explore this dedicated resource for a comprehensive study of the scriptures and key verses related to Righteousness. This guide is designed to cater to both beginners and advanced students of the Bible, providing a deeper understanding of Bible themes and their significance. Dive into a rich tapestry of historical contexts, detailed exegesis, and thematic studies that offer practical applications and spiritual guidance. Engage with the transformative power of scripture as we uncover the meaning, divine wisdom, and eternal truths about the Bible verses related to the topic of Righteousness, enhancing how we perceive and live out our faith.

Matthew 6:33 KJV Bible Verse Image
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But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

Psalms 1:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

Proverbs 28:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.

1 Peter 2:24 KJV Bible Verse Image
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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.

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He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

Psalms 34:14 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.

Matthew 5:6 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

Psalms 25:3 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: let them be ashamed which transgress without cause.

Psalms 119:9 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.

Psalms 37:5 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.

Genesis 15:6 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.

Psalms 119:5 KJV Bible Verse Image
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O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!

Psalms 84:11 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

Proverbs 21:2 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD pondereth the hearts.

Matthew 6:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.

Psalms 23:3 KJV Bible Verse Image
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He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.

Psalms 34:15 KJV Bible Verse Image
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The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.

Habakkuk 2:4 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.

Matthew 6:22 KJV Bible Verse Image
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The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.

Romans 3:4 KJV Bible Verse Image
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God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.

Revelation 19:13 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.

1 Peter 3:12 KJV Bible Verse Image
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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.

Psalms 37:23 KJV Bible Verse Image
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The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way.

Psalms 37:3 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.

Galatians 3:10 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.

Psalms 37:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.

1 John 2:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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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:

Romans 14:17 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.

Psalms 34:19 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.

Ephesians 6:14 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;

Romans 10:11 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.

Matthew 7:14 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

Jeremiah 9:24 KJV Bible Verse Image
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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.

Proverbs 16:7 KJV Bible Verse Image
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When a man's ways please the LORD, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.

Romans 9:33 KJV Bible Verse Image
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As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.

Jeremiah 9:23 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches:

James 3:18 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.

Isaiah 58:8 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward.

Romans 10:8 KJV Bible Verse Image
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But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;

1 Peter 4:18 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?

Isaiah 58:11 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.

Matthew 7:15 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

1 Corinthians 1:31 KJV Bible Verse Image
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That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

Ephesians 4:24 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

Psalms 34:17 KJV Bible Verse Image
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The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.

John 9:31 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.

Job 28:28 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the LORD, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.

1 Peter 3:8 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:

Proverbs 16:2 KJV Bible Verse Image
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All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits.

Job 1:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.

Psalms 143:10 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness.

Zechariah 9:9 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.

Habakkuk 2:14 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.

Proverbs 2:8 KJV Bible Verse Image
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He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.

Psalms 24:4 KJV Bible Verse Image
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He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.

1 John 2:29 KJV Bible Verse Image
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If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.

Proverbs 16:18 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

Proverbs 21:21 KJV Bible Verse Image
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He that followeth after righteousness and mercy findeth life, righteousness, and honour.

Psalms 37:6 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.

Psalms 25:12 KJV Bible Verse Image
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What man is he that feareth the LORD? him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose.

Psalms 92:10 KJV Bible Verse Image
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But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.

1 Corinthians 1:30 KJV Bible Verse Image
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But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:

1 Timothy 6:12 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.

James 1:20 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

Psalms 37:25 KJV Bible Verse Image
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I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.

Psalms 145:20 KJV Bible Verse Image
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The LORD preserveth all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy.

Matthew 6:16 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

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That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ.

Proverbs 8:17 KJV Bible Verse Image
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I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.

Psalms 15:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill?

Isaiah 59:17 KJV Bible Verse Image
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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.

Daniel 12:2 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

Bible Theme & Topic Recap: Righteousness

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