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15:6 And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.
Source: The First Book of Moses: Called Genesis

19:15 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor

honor the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.
Source: The Third Book of Moses: Called Leviticus

24:13 In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the LORD thy God.
Source: The Fifth Book of Moses: Called Deuteronomy

22:25 Therefore the LORD hath recompensed me according to my righteousness; according to my cleanness in his eye sight.
Source: The Second Book of Samuel Otherwise Called: The Second Book of the Kings

8:32 Then hear thou in heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.
Source: The First Book of the Kings Commonly Called: The Third Book of the Kings

6:23 Then hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, by requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way upon his own head; and by justifying the righteous, by giving him according to his righteousness.
Source: The Second Book of the Chronicles

6:29 Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.
Source: The Book of Job

8:6 If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
Source: The Book of Job

33:26 He shall pray unto God, and he will be favourable unto him: and he shall see his face with joy: for he will render unto man his righteousness.
Source: The Book of Job

35:2 Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?
Source: The Book of Job

35:8 Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the

son of man.
Source: The Book of Job

36:3 I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
Source: The Book of Job

7:8 The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me.
Source: The Book of Psalms

18:24 Therefore hath the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
Source: The Book of Psalms

31:1 In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness.
Source: The Book of Psalms

36:10 O continue thy lovingkindness unto them that know thee; and thy righteousness to the upright in heart.
Source: The Book of Psalms

48:10 According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness.
Source: The Book of Psalms

51:14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.
Source: The Book of Psalms

52:3 Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.
Source: The Book of Psalms

69:27 Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.
Source: The Book of Psalms

71:16 I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD: I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only.
Source: The Book of Psalms

72:3 The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, by righteousness.
Source: The Book of Psalms

89:16 In thy name shall they rejoice all the day: and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted.
Source: The Book of Psalms

92:15 To shew that the LORD is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
Source: The Book of Psalms

98:9 Before the LORD; for he cometh to judge the earth: with righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity.
Source: The Book of Psalms

99:4 The king's strength also loveth judgment; thou dost establish equity, thou executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob.
Source: The Book of Psalms

106:3 Blessed are they that keep judgment, and he that doeth righteousness at all times.
Source: The Book of Psalms

119:40 Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.
Source: The Book of Psalms

119:123 Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of thy righteousness.
Source: The Book of Psalms

119:172 My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments are righteousness.
Source: The Book of Psalms

143:1 Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness.
Source: The Book of Psalms

145:7 They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness, and shall sing of thy righteousness.
Source: The Book of Psalms

8:18 Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness.
Source: The Proverbs

11:18 The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward.
Source: The Proverbs

15:9 The way of the wicked is an abomination unto the LORD: but he loveth him that followeth after righteousness.
Source: The Proverbs

16:12 It is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness: for the throne is established by righteousness.
Source: The Proverbs

16:31 The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
Source: The Proverbs

21:21 He that followeth after righteousness and mercy findeth life, righteousness, and honour.
Source: The Proverbs

25:5 Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.
Source: The Proverbs

1:21 How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
Source: The Book of the Prophet Isaiah

1:27 Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness.
Source: The Book of the Prophet Isaiah

5:7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
Source: The Book of the Prophet Isaiah

5:16 But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.
Source: The Book of the Prophet Isaiah

10:22 For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness.
Source: The Book of the Prophet Isaiah

16:5 And in mercy shall the throne be established: and he shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness.
Source: The Book of the Prophet Isaiah

26:9 With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
Source: The Book of the Prophet Isaiah

32:17 And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.
Source: The Book of the Prophet Isaiah

33:5 The LORD is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath filled Zion with judgment and righteousness.
Source: The Book of the Prophet Isaiah

41:10 Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
Source: The Book of the Prophet Isaiah

45:8 Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the LORD have created it.
Source: The Book of the Prophet Isaiah

45:19 I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.
Source: The Book of the Prophet Isaiah

46:12 Hearken unto me, ye stouthearted, that are far from righteousness:
Source: The Book of the Prophet Isaiah

48:1 Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah, which swear by the name of the LORD, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness.
Source: The Book of the Prophet Isaiah

48:18 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:
Source: The Book of the Prophet Isaiah

54:17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.
Source: The Book of the Prophet Isaiah

56:1 Thus saith the LORD, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.
Source: The Book of the Prophet Isaiah

59:16 And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.
Source: The Book of the Prophet Isaiah

60:17 For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron: I will also make thy officers peace, and thine exactors righteousness.
Source: The Book of the Prophet Isaiah

23:6 In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
Source: The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah

33:15 In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land.
Source: The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah

33:16 In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely: and this is the name wherewith she shall be called, The LORD our righteousness.
Source: The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah

14:20 Though Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.
Source: The Book of the Prophet Ezekiel

33:12 Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth.
Source: The Book of the Prophet Ezekiel

9:18 O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies.
Source: The Book of Daniel

10:12 Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.
Source: Hosea

6:5 O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim unto Gilgal; that ye may know the righteousness of the LORD.
Source: Micah

7:9 I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.
Source: Micah

8:8 And I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness.
Source: Zechariah

3:3 And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.
Source: Malachi

7:18 He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.
Source: The Gospel According to Saint John

16:8 And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:
Source: The Gospel According to Saint John

10:35 But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.
Source: The Acts of the Apostles

1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
Source: The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans

2:8 But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
Source: The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans

4:3 For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.
Source: The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans

4:5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
Source: The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans

4:6 Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,
Source: The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans

4:9 Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.
Source: The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans

4:11 And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also:
Source: The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans

4:13 For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
Source: The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans

4:22 And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.
Source: The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans

6:13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
Source: The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans

6:16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
Source: The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans

6:18 Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
Source: The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans

6:19 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.
Source: The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans

6:20 For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.
Source: The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans

8:10 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
Source: The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans

9:28 For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.
Source: The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans

9:30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.
Source: The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans

9:31 But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.
Source: The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans

10:3 For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
Source: The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans

1:30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
Source: The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians

5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
Source: The Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians

6:7 By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
Source: The Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians

9:9 (As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the poor: his righteousness remaineth for ever.
Source: The Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians

9:10 Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;)
Source: The Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians

3:6 Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.
Source: The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Galatians

3:21 Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.
Source: The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Galatians

4:24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
Source: The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Ephesians

5:9 (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)
Source: The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Ephesians

6:14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
Source: The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Ephesians

3:6 Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.
Source: The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Philippians

3:9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
Source: The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Philippians

2:12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Source: The Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Thessalonians

6:11 But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.
Source: The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy

3:16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
Source: The Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy

1:8 But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.
Source: The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Hebrews

5:13 For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.
Source: The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Hebrews

12:11 Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
Source: The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Hebrews

1:20 For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
Source: The General Epistle of James

1:1 Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:
Source: The Second General Epistle of Peter

2:15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
Source: The Second General Epistle of Peter

3:13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
Source: The Second General Epistle of Peter

1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Source: The First Epistle General of John

2:29 If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.
Source: The First Epistle General of John

3:7 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
Source: The First Epistle General of John

5:17 All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death.
Source: The First Epistle General of John

19:8 And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.
Source: The Revelation of Saint John the Devine


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