Quotes About Righteousness

But when justice is done the world drops away.

When he comes, he will convict the world of guilt in regard to sin and righteousness and judgment. JOHN 16:8

Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. EPHESIANS 6:14 – 15

I delight greatly in the LORD; my soul rejoices in my God. For he has clothed me with garments of salvation and arrayed me in a robe of righteousness. ISAIAH 61:10

A righteous man will be remembered forever. He will have no fear of bad news; his heart is steadfast, trusting in the LORD. His heart is secure, he will have no fear. PSALM 112:6 – 8

Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness. 2 CORINTHIANS 9:10

The LORD is gracious and righteous; our God is full of compassion. PSALM 116:5

For the LORD watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish. PSALM 1:6

No discipline [wounding or pruning] seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.

Run to God and cling to Him. God understands every verbal barb, every covert injustice, every emotional shard, every leering look, every jeering smirk. But He also keeps the books, and one day He will make everything right.

The son will not share the guilt of the father, nor will the father share the guilt of the son. The righteousness of the righteous man will be credited to him, and the wickedness of the wicked will be charged against him. EZEKIEL 18:20

Being brave meant that though you might be frightened, you would face the greatest danger if you knew it was the right thing to do.

Building our homes as fortresses of righteousness for protection from the world takes constant labor and diligence.

The power of the priesthood heals, protects, and inoculates all of the righteous against the powers of darkness.

Sometimes it is necessary to be lonely in order to prove that you are right.

The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.

We all must try to be good.

That's the trouble with you preachers, he said. You've all got too good to believe in anything, and he drove off with a look of disgust and righteousness.

the word translated "justice" and "righteousness" is the same word in Hebrew and in Greek. The root of the word becomes, in both Testaments, both a noun and a verb, so that "justice" or "judgment" is the same thing as "righteousness" or "rectification" (making right).

All the references to judgment in the Bible should be understood in the context of God's righteousness—not just his being righteous (noun) but his "making right" (verb) all that has been wrong.

In other words, God's righteousness involves not only a great reversal ("the first will be last") but also an actual transformation and re-creation.

begin to see that when we say God will "justify" rather than merely "acquit," the action has a reconstituting force — hence the insufficiency of the courtroom metaphor "to acquit." God's righteousness is the same thing as his justice, and his justice is powerfully at work justifying, which does not mean excusing, passing over, or even "forgiving and forgetting," but actively making right that which is wrong.

What we do know is that followers of Jesus Christ will always want to remember that the true and righteous judgments of the Lord are applicable to every side of every conflict.

the central idea in the concept of justification (dikaios). The righteousness of God is the same as his power to make righteous — to rectify what is wrong.