Topic study
Righteousness in the Bible
Right standing and upright walking before God.
605 King James verses match this subject. The chapters below hold the heaviest concentration of them, so you can read each passage where it actually sits.
Chapters to read
Matched on the words themselves in the King James text. Where a word is also a name, it can point to more than one person or place, so read the chapter to see which.
The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.
I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments.
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.
And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.
A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.
Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good things in possession.
The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright.
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:
The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me.
He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.
Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.
Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.
For the righteous LORD loveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold the upright.
Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.
In the house of the righteous is much treasure: but in the revenues of the wicked is trouble.
Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.
Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?
But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.
He that walketh in his uprightness feareth the LORD: but he that is perverse in his ways despiseth him.
When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.
But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance?(I speak as a man)
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.
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.
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.
Key verses
- Psalms 11:7
For the righteous LORD loveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold the upright.
- Deuteronomy 9:5
Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
- 1 Kings 3:6
And Solomon said, Thou hast shewed unto thy servant David my father great mercy, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.
- 1 Kings 9:4
And if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes and my judgments:
- Job 2:3
And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause.
- Job 8:6
If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
- Psalms 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.
- Psalms 9:8
And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.
- Psalms 15:2
He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.
- Psalms 25:21
Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.
- Psalms 32:11
Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart.
- Psalms 33:1
Rejoice in the LORD, O ye righteous: for praise is comely for the upright.
- Psalms 36:10
O continue thy lovingkindness unto them that know thee; and thy righteousness to the upright in heart.
- Psalms 58:1
To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David. Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
- Psalms 64:10
The righteous shall be glad in the LORD, and shall trust in him; and all the upright in heart shall glory.
- Psalms 94:15
But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it.
- Psalms 97:11
Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.
- Psalms 112:4
Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.
- Psalms 119:7
I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments.
- Psalms 119:137
TZADDI. Righteous art thou, O LORD, and upright are thy judgments.