Righteousness

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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

• 2 Corinthians 9:10 NT

  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,

• Philippians 1:11 NT

  being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

• Proverbs 11:5 OT

  The righteousness of the blameless will direct his way, but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.

• Proverbs 13:6 OT

  Righteousness guards the way of integrity, but wickedness overthrows the sinner.

• Leviticus 19:15 OT

  “ ‘You shall do no injustice in judgment. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.

• Psalms 16:3 OT

  As for the saints who are in the earth, they are the excellent ones in whom is all my delight.

• Proverbs 12:26 OT

  A righteous person is cautious in friendship, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.

• Acts 10:35 NT

  but in every nation he who fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to him.

• Psalms 146:8 OT

  Yahweh opens the eyes of the blind. Yahweh raises up those who are bowed down. Yahweh loves the righteous.

• Proverbs 15:9 OT

  The way of the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but he loves him who follows after righteousness.

• Psalms 5:12 OT

  For you will bless the righteous. Yahweh, you will surround him with favor as with a shield.

• Luke 18:7 NT

  Won’t God avenge his chosen ones who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?

• James 5:16 NT

  Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

• Job 36:7 OT

  He doesn’t withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne, he sets them forever, and they are exalted.

• Psalms 34:15 OT

  Yahweh’s eyes are toward the righteous. His ears listen to their cry.

• Proverbs 10:3 OT

  Yahweh will not allow the soul of the righteous to go hungry, but he thrusts away the desire of the wicked.

• 1 Peter 3:12 NT

  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.”

• Psalms 11:5 OT

  Yahweh examines the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and him who loves violence.

• Isaiah 33:15 OT

  He who walks righteously and speaks blamelessly, he who despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil—

• Isaiah 33:16 OT

  he will dwell on high. His place of defense will be the fortress of rocks. His bread will be supplied. His waters will be sure.

• Proverbs 28:1 OT

  The wicked flee when no one pursues; but the righteous are as bold as a lion.

• Psalms 34:19 OT

  Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.

• Proverbs 11:8 OT

  A righteous person is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked takes his place.

• Psalms 37:25 OT

  I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.