Quotes about Righteousness
For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit,
— 1 Peter 3:18
Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ have received a faith as precious as ours:
— 2 Peter 1:1
if He did not spare the ancient world when He brought the flood on its ungodly people, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, among the eight;
— 2 Peter 2:5
and if He rescued Lot, a righteous man distressed by the depraved conduct of the lawless
— 2 Peter 2:7
(for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)—
— 2 Peter 2:8
It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than to have known it and then to turn away from the holy commandment passed on to them.
— 2 Peter 2:21
But in keeping with God’s promise, we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, where righteousness dwells.
— 2 Peter 3:13
If you know that He is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of Him.
— 1 John 2:29
But you know that Christ appeared to take away sins, and in Him there is no sin.
— 1 John 3:5
No one who remains in Him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has seen Him or known Him.
— 1 John 3:6
Little children, let no one deceive you: The one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as Christ is righteous.
— 1 John 3:7
The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the very start. This is why the Son of God was revealed, to destroy the works of the devil.
— 1 John 3:8