Quotes about Righteousness

Do not cover up their iniquity or let their sin be blotted out from Your sight, for they have provoked the builders.

So I continued, “What you are doing is not right. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God to avoid the reproach of our foreign enemies?

You are just in all that has befallen us, because You have acted faithfully, while we have acted wickedly.

There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. And this man was blameless and upright, fearing God and shunning evil.

In all this, Job did not sin or charge God with wrongdoing.

Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one on earth like him, a man who is blameless and upright, who fears God and shuns evil. He still retains his integrity, even though you incited Me against him to ruin him without cause.”

Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?

‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?

Reconsider; do not be unjust. Reconsider, for my righteousness is at stake.

if you are pure and upright, even now He will rouse Himself on your behalf and restore your righteous estate.

Behold, God does not reject the blameless, nor will He strengthen the hand of evildoers.

“Yes, I know that it is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?