He who follows after righteousness and kindness
finds life, righteousness, and honor.
Proverbs 21:21
love | life
Who “will pay back to everyone according to their works.”
Romans 2:6
reward
But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness.
1 Timothy 6:11
faith | love
For Yahweh loves justice,
and doesn’t forsake his saints.
They are preserved forever,
but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.
Psalm 37:28
eternal life | reliability | faithfulness
Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.
Galatians 6:7
God | harvest
Every way of a man is right in his own eyes,
but Yahweh weighs the hearts.
Proverbs 21:2
judgment | understanding | thoughts
But seek first God’s Kingdom and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.
Matthew 6:33
food | kingdom
For he will never be shaken.
The righteous will be remembered forever.
Psalm 112:6
protection
Yahweh’s eyes are toward the righteous.
His ears listen to their cry.
Psalm 34:15
listening
To do righteousness and justice
is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.
Proverbs 21:3
honesty | sacrifice
But even if you should suffer for righteousness’ sake, you are blessed. “Don’t fear what they fear, neither be troubled.”
1 Peter 3:14
suffering | fear
Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season if we don’t give up.
Galatians 6:9
reward | patience | harvest
See that no one returns evil for evil to anyone, but always follow after that which is good for one another and for all.
1 Thessalonians 5:15
blameless | evil
For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
2 Corinthians 5:21
sin | mediator
Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report: if there is any virtue and if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.
Philippians 4:8
truth | thoughts | praise
Commit your way to Yahweh.
Trust also in him, and he will do this:
he will make your righteousness shine out like light,
and your justice as the noon day sun.
Psalm 37:5-6
trust | life | light
Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.
James 3:18
peace | harvest | fruitfulness
For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present age.
Titus 2:11-12
grace | salvation | world
Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked,
nor stand on the path of sinners,
nor sit in the seat of scoffers.
Psalm 1:1
sin | blessing
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing,
but righteousness delivers from death.
Proverbs 10:2
honesty | money
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,
for they shall be filled.
Matthew 5:6
blessing | receiving | food
Wicked people earn deceitful wages,
but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.
Proverbs 11:18
sin | reward
If you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.
Luke 6:33
reward
It is a snare to a man to make a rash dedication,
then later to consider his vows.
Proverbs 20:25
holiness
With my whole heart I have sought you.
Don’t let me wander from your commandments.
Psalm 119:10
law | heart
“No weapon that is formed against you will prevail;
and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment.
This is the heritage of Yahweh’s servants,
and their righteousness is of me,” says Yahweh.
Isaiah 54:17
judgment | protection | idols
Many are the afflictions of the righteous,
but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.
Psalm 34:19
suffering | redeemer | freedom
Open your mouth, judge righteously,
and serve justice to the poor and needy.
Proverbs 31:9
speaking | giving | widows
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.
James 4:8
sin | purification | repentance
Confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.
James 5:16
healing | prayer | sickness
But let justice roll on like rivers,
and righteousness like a mighty stream.
Amos 5:24
law
Cast your burden on Yahweh and he will sustain you.
He will never allow the righteous to be moved.
Psalm 55:22
reliability | safety
Learn to do well.
Seek justice.
Relieve the oppressed.
Defend the fatherless.
Plead for the widow.
Isaiah 1:17
neighbor | widows | orphans
For in it is revealed God’s righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, “But the righteous shall live by faith.”
Romans 1:17
faith | salvation
Then you will understand righteousness and justice,
equity and every good path.
Proverbs 2:9
goodness | honesty
Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.
Romans 2:1
judgment | neighbor
Search me, God, and know my heart.
Try me, and know my thoughts.
See if there is any wicked way in me,
and lead me in the everlasting way.
Psalm 139:23-24
eternal life | holiness | thoughts
Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness’ sake,
for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
Matthew 5:10
kingdom | persecution
Righteousness exalts a nation,
but sin is a disgrace to any people.
Proverbs 14:34
sin
For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous,
and his ears open to their prayer;
but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.
1 Peter 3:12
prayer | listening | evil
He has shown you, O man, what is good.
What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly,
to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
Micah 6:8
law | humility
Better is a little with righteousness,
than great revenues with injustice.
Proverbs 16:8
money | contentment | honesty
For Christ is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
Romans 10:4
faith | law
All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
Hebrews 12:11
peace | children | punishment
Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship do righteousness and iniquity have? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?
2 Corinthians 6:14
law | relationships | light
With his mouth the godless man destroys his neighbor,
but the righteous will be delivered through knowledge.
Proverbs 11:9
speaking | wisdom | gossip
For Yahweh is our judge.
Yahweh is our lawgiver.
Yahweh is our king.
He will save us.
Isaiah 33:22
salvation | kingdom
Better is a little that the righteous has,
than the abundance of many wicked.
For the arms of the wicked shall be broken,
but Yahweh upholds the righteous.
Psalm 37:16-17
sin | money
But now apart from the law, a righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified by the law and the prophets; even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction.
Romans 3:21-22
faith | law | prophecy
He loves righteousness and justice.
The earth is full of the loving kindness of Yahweh.
Psalm 33:5
reliability | love
There is a way which seems right to a man,
but in the end it leads to death.
Proverbs 14:12
life | sin | thoughts
In you, Yahweh, I take refuge.
Let me never be disappointed.
Deliver me in your righteousness.
Psalm 31:1
redeemer | dependence
For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.
Hebrews 6:10
work | serving
The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable,
but the mouth of the wicked is perverse.
Proverbs 10:32
truth | speaking | lying
But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Matthew 9:13
mercy | sacrifice | repentance
I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh!
My soul will be joyful in my God,
for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation.
He has covered me with the robe of righteousness,
as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland
and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
Isaiah 61:10
joy | redeemer | marriage
Don’t envy the man of violence.
Choose none of his ways.
For the perverse is an abomination to Yahweh,
but his friendship is with the upright.
Proverbs 3:31-32
trust | planning
He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.
1 Peter 2:24
sin | healing | body
Thus has Yahweh of Armies spoken, saying, ‘Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother. Don’t oppress the widow, the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’
Zechariah 7:9-10
evil | neighbor | gentleness
“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are expedient. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be brought under the power of anything.
1 Corinthians 6:12
addiction | desires | life
You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill can’t be hidden.
Matthew 5:14
evangelism | life | light
Yahweh is righteous in all his ways,
and gracious in all his works.
Psalm 145:17
reliability | goodness | faithfulness
Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Romans 5:1
faith | peace
Hear my prayer, Yahweh.
Listen to my petitions.
In your faithfulness and righteousness, relieve me.
Psalm 143:1
reliability | prayer | faithfulness
Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless.
Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.
Psalm 82:3
orphans | neighbor | weakness
But he who didn’t know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To whomever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be asked.
Luke 12:48
obedience | punishment
For as through the one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one, many will be made righteous.
Romans 5:19
obedience | salvation
Therefore Yahweh will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for Yahweh is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.
Isaiah 30:18
grace | patience | compassion
We, being Jews by nature and not Gentile sinners, yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.
Galatians 2:15-16
faith | law
With my soul I have desired you in the night.
Yes, with my spirit within me I will seek you earnestly;
for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
Isaiah 26:9
judgment | learning
Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.
1 John 3:4
sin | law
But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out and leap like calves of the stall.
Malachi 4:2
joy | healing | awe
It shall be righteousness to us, if we observe to do all these commandments before Yahweh our God, as he has commanded us.
Deuteronomy 6:25
obedience | law
Blessings are on the head of the righteous,
but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.
Proverbs 10:6
speaking | blessing
The tongue of the righteous is like choice silver.
The heart of the wicked is of little worth.
Proverbs 10:20
valuable | speaking
Good and upright is Yahweh,
therefore he will instruct sinners in the way.
He will guide the humble in justice.
He will teach the humble his way.
Psalm 25:8-9
humility | learning
Blessed are those whose ways are blameless,
who walk according to Yahweh’s law.
Psalm 119:1
law | life | blameless
I don’t reject the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!
Galatians 2:21
grace | law | Jesus
Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight; for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
Romans 3:20
sin | law
Who is wise, that he may understand these things?
Who is prudent, that he may know them?
For the ways of Yahweh are right,
and the righteous walk in them,
but the rebellious stumble in them.
Hosea 14:9
wisdom | understanding
He lays up sound wisdom for the upright.
He is a shield to those who walk in integrity.
Proverbs 2:7
blessing | protection | blameless
Wake up righteously and don’t sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.
1 Corinthians 15:34
sin | conversion | understanding
Peter opened his mouth and said, “Truly I perceive that God doesn’t show favoritism; but in every nation he who fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to him.”
Acts 10:34-35
obedience | evangelism
Train up a child in the way he should go,
and when he is old he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 22:6
family | children
But he knows the way that I take.
When he has tried me, I will come out like gold.
My foot has held fast to his steps.
I have kept his way, and not turned away.
Job 23:10-11
blameless
I have taught you in the way of wisdom.
I have led you in straight paths.
Proverbs 4:11
wisdom | learning
The prospect of the righteous is joy,
but the hope of the wicked will perish.
Proverbs 10:28
hope | patience | joy
The memory of the righteous is blessed,
but the name of the wicked will rot.
Proverbs 10:7
sin | blessing
For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth.
Ephesians 5:9
light | goodness | truth
Yes, in the way of your judgments, Yahweh, we have waited for you.
Your name and your renown are the desire of our soul.
Isaiah 26:8
law | desires
Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
Romans 6:13
sin | sacrifice | conversion
I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith. From now on, the crown of righteousness is stored up for me, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.
2 Timothy 4:7-8
faith | reward | judgment
Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.
Habakkuk 2:4
life | reliability | faith
The Rock: his work is perfect,
for all his ways are just.
A God of faithfulness who does no wrong,
just and right is he.
Deuteronomy 32:4
holiness | reliability
That he may guard the paths of justice,
and preserve the way of his saints.
Proverbs 2:8
protection | obedience | faithfulness
Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness.
2 Corinthians 9:10
food | giving | generosity
If you will diligently listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am Yahweh who heals you.
Exodus 15:26
listening | sickness | healing
For you will bless the righteous.
Yahweh, you will surround him with favor as with a shield.
Psalm 5:12
blessing | protection
Riches don’t profit in the day of wrath,
but righteousness delivers from death.
Proverbs 11:4
money | materialism | punishment
“For I have no pleasure in the death of him who dies,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Therefore turn yourselves, and live!”
Ezekiel 18:32
conversion | death | eternal life
Let your eyes look straight ahead.
Fix your gaze directly before you.
Proverbs 4:25
honesty | reliability
Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.
Daniel 4:37
humility | worship | pride
We can’t reach the Almighty.
He is exalted in power.
In justice and great righteousness, he will not oppress.
Job 37:23
God | strength
You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.
Galatians 5:4
grace | law | Jesus
Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?
James 4:12
law | judgment | salvation
“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are profitable. “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things build up.
1 Corinthians 10:23
law | goodness | food
The wicked borrow, and don’t pay back,
but the righteous give generously.
Psalm 37:21
debt | money | giving
Not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit.
Titus 3:5
salvation | Holy Spirit | rebirth
Yahweh opens the eyes of the blind.
Yahweh raises up those who are bowed down.
Yahweh loves the righteous.
Psalm 146:8
sickness | healing | sadness
Don’t turn to the right hand nor to the left.
Remove your foot from evil.
Proverbs 4:27
evil | following | self-control
Let the wicked forsake his way,
and the unrighteous man his thoughts.
Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him,
to our God, for he will freely pardon.
Isaiah 55:7
conversion | forgiveness | life
Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion!
Shout, daughter of Jerusalem!
Behold, your King comes to you!
He is righteous, and having salvation;
lowly, and riding on a donkey,
even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
Zechariah 9:9
prophecy | easter | humility
Now therefore let the fear of Yahweh be on you. Take heed and do it; for there is no iniquity with Yahweh our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes.
2 Chronicles 19:7
awe | honesty
When he has come, he will convict the world about sin, about righteousness, and about judgment.
John 16:8
Holy Spirit | mediator | sin
Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
2 Timothy 2:22
desires | temptation | evil
Seek Yahweh, all you humble of the land, who have kept his ordinances. Seek righteousness. Seek humility. It may be that you will be hidden in the day of Yahweh’s anger.
Zephaniah 2:3
seeking | protection | humility
Stand therefore, having the utility belt of truth buckled around your waist, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, and having fitted your feet with the preparation of the Good News of peace, above all, taking up the shield of faith, with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the evil one.
Ephesians 6:14-16
truth | evangelism | peace