Righteousness

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Zephaniah 2:3 OT

  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.

• Titus 2:12 NT

  instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present age;

• 1 Peter 2:24 NT

  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.

• Luke 1:75 NT

  in holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our life.

• Romans 6:13 NT

  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 6:19 NT

  I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.

• Ephesians 6:14 NT

  Stand therefore, having the utility belt of truth buckled around your waist, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

• 2 Timothy 4:8 NT

  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.

• Psalms 17:15 OT

  As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.

• Psalms 112:3 OT

  Wealth and riches are in his house. His righteousness endures forever.

• Psalms 112:9 OT

  He has dispersed, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honor.

• 2 Corinthians 9:9 NT

  As it is written, “He has scattered abroad. He has given to the poor. His righteousness remains forever.”

• Romans 14:17 NT

  for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

• Ephesians 5:9 NT

  for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,

• 2 Timothy 3:16 NT

  Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

• Isaiah 26:9 OT

  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.

• Hebrews 12:11 NT

  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.

• 2 Corinthians 6:14 NT

  Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship do righteousness and iniquity have? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

• 2 Peter 2:5 NT

  and didn’t spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;

• Acts 24:25 NT

  As he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was terrified, and answered, “Go your way for this time, and when it is convenient for me, I will summon you.”

• 1 Timothy 6:11 NT

  But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness.

• 2 Timothy 2:22 NT

  Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

• Psalms 132:9 OT

  Let your priests be clothed with righteousness. Let your saints shout for joy!”

• 2 Corinthians 6:7 NT

  in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,