Quotes About Righteousness

Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea.

He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth.

I am holier than thou.

Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in.Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee.

Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever, is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things.

The spirits of just men made perfect.

For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.

Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction. Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.

And Enoch walked with God.

Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?

And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

The Lord reward him according to his works.

The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

One that feared God, and eschewed evil.

I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem. I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.

A day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican.

There is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.

Wealth and children are the adornment of this present world; but the abiding things, the deeds of righteousness, are better with God in reward, and better in hope.

But how should man be just with God?

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts.

Ius est ars boni et aequi [Legal justice is the art of the good and the fair].