Quotes about Righteousness
Yet the house of Israel says, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ Are My ways unjust, O house of Israel? Is it not your ways that are unjust?
— Ezekiel 18:29
Therefore, son of man, say to your people: ‘The righteousness of the righteous man will not deliver him in the day of his transgression; neither will the wickedness of the wicked man cause him to stumble on the day he turns from his wickedness. Nor will the righteous man be able to survive by his righteousness on the day he sins.’
— Ezekiel 33:12
If I tell the righteous man that he will surely live, but he then trusts in his righteousness and commits iniquity, then none of his righteous works will be remembered; he will die because of the iniquity he has committed.
— Ezekiel 33:13
But if I tell the wicked man, ‘You will surely die,’ and he turns from his sin and does what is just and right—
— Ezekiel 33:14
None of the sins he has committed will be held against him. He has done what is just and right; he will surely live.
— Ezekiel 33:16
Yet your people say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ But it is their way that is not just.
— Ezekiel 33:17
If a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he will die for it.
— Ezekiel 33:18
Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ But I will judge each of you according to his ways, O house of Israel.”
— Ezekiel 33:20
For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Enough, O princes of Israel! Cease your violence and oppression, and do what is just and right. Stop dispossessing My people, declares the Lord GOD.’
— Ezekiel 45:9
Therefore, may my advice be pleasing to you, O king. Break away from your sins by doing what is right, and from your iniquities by showing mercy to the oppressed. Perhaps there will be an extension of your prosperity.”
— Daniel 4:27
Finally these men said, “We will never find any charge against this Daniel, unless we find something against him concerning the law of his God.”
— Daniel 6:5
To You, O Lord, belongs righteousness, but this day we are covered with shame—the men of Judah, the people of Jerusalem, and all Israel near and far, in all the countries to which You have driven us because of our unfaithfulness to You.
— Daniel 9:7