| Matt.9.13 | Go and learn what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.’ For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.” |
| Matt.10.41 | The one who receives a prophet because he is a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward, and the one who receives a righteous person because he is a righteous person will receive a righteous person’s reward. |
| Matt.13.17 | Truly, I say to you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it. |
| Matt.13.43 | Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear. |
| Matt.13.49 | So it will be at the close of the age. The angels will come out and separate the evil from the righteous |
| Matt.23.28 | So you also outwardly appear righteous to others, but within you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. |
| Matt.23.29 | “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous, |
| Matt.23.35 | so that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of innocent Abel to the blood of Zechariah the son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar. |
| Matt.25.37 | Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? |
| Matt.25.46 | And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.” |
| Matt.27.19 | Besides, while he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent word to him, “Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered much because of him today in a dream.” |
| Mark.2.17 | And when Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.” |
| Mark.6.20 | for Herod feared John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and he kept him safe. When he heard him, he was greatly perplexed, and yet he heard him gladly. |
| Luke.1.6 | And they were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and statutes of the Lord. |
| Luke.2.25 | Now there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon, and this man was righteous and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him. |
| Luke.5.32 | I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.” |
| Luke.15.7 | Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance. |
| Luke.18.9 | He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and treated others with contempt: |
| Luke.23.50 | Now there was a man named Joseph, from the Jewish town of Arimathea. He was a member of the council, a good and righteous man, |
| John.17.25 | O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me. |
| Acts.3.14 | But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you, |
| Acts.7.52 | Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the Righteous One, whom you have now betrayed and murdered, |
| Acts.22.14 | And he said, ‘The God of our fathers appointed you to know his will, to see the Righteous One and to hear a voice from his mouth; |
| Rom.1.17 | For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.” |
| Rom.2.5 | But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed. |
| Rom.2.13 | For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified. |
| Rom.3.10 | as it is written: “ None is righteous, no, not one; |
| Rom.5.7 | For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die— |
| Rom.5.19 | For as by the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man’s obedience the many will be made righteous. |
| Rom.7.12 | So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good. |
| Rom.8.4 | in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. |
| Gal.3.11 | Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for “The righteous shall live by faith.” |
| 1Thess.2.10 | You are witnesses, and God also, how holy and righteous and blameless was our conduct toward you believers. |
| 2Thess.1.5 | This is evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are also suffering— |
| 2Tim.4.8 | Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that Day, and not only to me but also to all who have loved his appearing. |
| Heb.10.38 | but my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.” |
| Heb.11.4 | By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks. |
| Heb.12.23 | and to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, |
| Jas.5.6 | You have condemned; you have murdered the righteous person. He does not resist you. |
| Jas.5.16 | Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working. |
| 1Pet.3.12 | For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.” |
| 1Pet.3.18 | For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit, |
| 1Pet.4.18 | And “ If the righteous is scarcely saved, what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?” |
| 2Pet.2.7 | and if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked |
| 2Pet.2.8 | (for as that righteous man lived among them day after day, he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard); |
| 1John.2.1 | My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. |
| 1John.2.29 | If you know that he is righteous, you may be sure that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him. |
| 1John.3.7 | Little children, let no one deceive you. Whoever practices righteousness is righteous, as he is righteous. |
| 1John.3.12 | We should not be like Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother’s righteous. |
| Rev.15.4 | Who will not fear, O Lord, and glorify your name? For you alone are holy. All nations will come and worship you, for your righteous acts have been revealed.” |
| Rev.19.8 | it was granted her to clothe herself with fine linen, bright and pure”— for the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints. |
| Rev.22.11 | Let the evildoer still do evil, and the filthy still be filthy, and the righteous still do right, and the holy still be holy.” |