Righteousness

righteousness - behavior that is morally justifiable or right (according to who?)

a righteous person lives by an accepted standard of morality, justice, virtue, and uprightness

Gk. - in the straight or right way

What’s the right way? Who determines the right way? Why?

Deuteronomy 32:4 NASB95

“The Rock! His work is perfect, For all His ways are just; A God of faithfulness and without injustice, Righteous and upright is He.

Isaiah 30:18 NASB95

Therefore the Lord longs to be gracious to you, And therefore He waits on high to have compassion on you. For the Lord is a God of justice; How blessed are all those who long for Him.

Isaiah 45:21 NASB95

“Declare and set forth your case; Indeed, let them consult together. Who has announced this from of old? Who has long since declared it? Is it not I, the Lord? And there is no other God besides Me, A righteous God and a Savior; There is none except Me.

Zephaniah 3:5 NASB95

The Lord is righteous within her; He will do no injustice. Every morning He brings His justice to light; He does not fail. But the unjust knows no shame.

Revelation 19:2 NASB95

because His judgments are true and righteous; for He has judged the great harlot who was corrupting the earth with her immorality, and He has avenged the blood of His bond-servants on her.”

Here in lies the problem we cannot live up to the standard of the righteousness of God

Ecclesiastes 7:20 NASB95

Indeed, there is not a righteous man on earth who continually does good and who never sins.

Psalm 14:2–3 NASB95

The Lord has looked down from heaven upon the sons of men To see if there are any who understand, Who seek after God. They have all turned aside, together they have become corrupt; There is no one who does good, not even one.

Isaiah 64:6 NASB95

For all of us have become like one who is unclean, And all our righteous deeds are like a filthy garment; And all of us wither like a leaf, And our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

Romans 3:10–11 NASB95

as it is written, “There is none righteous, not even one; There is none who understands, There is none who seeks for God;

Romans 3:23 NASB95

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

We are made right with God through faith in Jesus

Romans 1:16–17 NASB95

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “But the righteous man shall live by faith.”

Genesis 15:6 NASB95

Then he believed in the Lord; and He reckoned it to him as righteousness.

Rom. 4:3-5, 20-25

Romans 4:3–5 NASB95

For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.” Now to the one who works, his wage is not credited as a favor, but as what is due. But to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited as righteousness,

Romans 4:20–25 NASB95

yet, with respect to the promise of God, he did not waver in unbelief but grew strong in faith, giving glory to God, and being fully assured that what God had promised, He was able also to perform. Therefore it was also credited to him as righteousness. Now not for his sake only was it written that it was credited to him, but for our sake also, to whom it will be credited, as those who believe in Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead, He who was delivered over because of our transgressions, and was raised because of our justification.

Romans 3:24 NASB95

being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus;

2 Corinthians 5:21 NASB95

He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

Philippians 3:8–10 NASB95

More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ, and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith, that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death;

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Sermon On the Mount = righteousness (you are what you eat)

Am I hunger and thirsting for his righteousness?

1 Peter 2:24 NASB95

and He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed.

2 Timothy 2:22 NASB95

Now flee from youthful lusts and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

Titus 2:11–12 NASB95

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, instructing us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live sensibly, righteously and godly in the present age,

1 John 3:7 NASB95

Little children, make sure no one deceives you; the one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous;

1 Timothy 6:11 NASB95

But flee from these things, you man of God, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance and gentleness.