Quotes About Righteousness

Oh you who believe! Fasting is prescribed to you as it was prescribed to those before you, that you many learn piety and righteousness. -al-Baqarah 2:183

A sense of righteousness is even more dangerous than a violent temper.

No one will ever go to Hell who has put his trust in Jesus Christ, but many will end up in torment who have trusted their own righteousness and reformation.

In spinning a robe of your own righteousness, before the sun goes down you will find it all unraveled.

A taste of righteousness can be easily perverted into an overweening sense of self-righteousness and judgmentalism.

Never let ungrateful remarks prevent you from doing what you feel is right and good. Let God be your judge.

Be wise and do the right thing. Don't let irrelevant people waste your time. Your time is valuable and should be spent with valuable people.

Raise a child to understand how to relate well with other people, don't raise him to be egocentric. Instill in him the knowledge of life, let him know that responsibility is not a challenge but a building block of life, tell him that money is not everything and only righteousness open doors to many opportunities and most importantly he should realize that time matters.

God himself pursues them and throws them into the lake of fire.

Brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer me. Would you discredit my justice? Would you condemn me to justify yourself?" (Job 40:2-8)

Now, the Bible says that if there is no moral law, there would be no sin. Therefore, sin is a transgression of the moral law.

All that God does is intrinsically good and righteous, so it is also good and righteous for him to create the reprobates for the above purpose. Some would be horrified by this, because they are more concerned about man's dignity and comfort than God's purpose and glory, but those who have the mind of Christ would erupt in gratitude and reverence, and affirm that God is righteous, and that he does all things well.

Isaiah 46:10, "My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please." On the other hand, man's will is enslaved either to sin or to righteousness: "But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were entrusted. You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness" (Romans 6:17-18). Man has no free will – it is an assumption without any biblical or rational warrant.

The Sovereign God causes all things, and he is good and righteous in all that he does. Blessed be the name of the Lord." No objection can touch this.

Those whom God has chosen will accept God the way he is, and worship him for his sovereignty and righteousness. Others will prefer a God of their own imagination, and for this they will be condemned.

Isaiah 5:20, "Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.

JUSTIFICATION is an act of God by which he imputes the righteousness of Christ to the elect person, and declares that this elect person is righteous on the basis of the righteousness of Christ.

God demands his people to imitate his holiness under both the Old and New Testaments:

God is the one who regenerates us, who summons us to faith, who creates and causes faith in us, and who then declares us righteous. Salvation is wholly a work of God.

You are a child of the devil and an enemy of everything that is right! You are full of all kinds of deceit and trickery. Will you never stop perverting the right ways of the Lord? (Acts 13:10)

if you refuse to repent and believe, then one day God will take your life and throw you into the lake of fire. And you shall be numbered with the murderers, adulterers, homosexuals, slanderers, those who practice witchcraft, those who are the lovers of money and pleasure, and all idolaters and unbelievers.

God is the only standard of justice, and we must submit to his standard instead of imposing our own standard on him.

The arrogant cannot stand in your presence; you hate all who do wrong. (Psalm 5:5)

I do not sit with deceitful men, nor do I consort with hypocrites; I abhor the assembly of evildoers and refuse to sit with the wicked. (Psalm 26:4-5)