Faith and Righteousness
_ Abram believed in the Lord, and He counted it righteous to him (Genesis 15:6).
_ Do not commit injustice in judgment, do not show partiality to the poor,
Do not respect the powerful; Judge your neighbor justly (Leviticus 19:15).
You shall not commit injustice in judgment, in measuring, in weighing, or in measuring (Leviticus 19:35).
_ You must stay away from false words; Do not kill the innocent or the righteous, for I will not spare the wicked. Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and destroys the cause of the righteous (Exodus 23: 7 - 8)
_ You must not compromise integrity, you must not show partiality, and you must not accept bribes; For a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and confuses the words of the righteous (Deuteronomy 16:19).
_ Do not muzzle the ox while it treads grain (Deuteronomy 25:4)
_ Behold, God does not forsake the blameless, nor help the wicked (Job 8:20).
_ Offer sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the Lord (Psalm 4:5)
_ But everyone who takes refuge in the Lord will rejoice and shout for joy forever, because the Lord protects them; Those who love Your name will rejoice in You (Psalm 5:11).
_ The wicked will be cast into hell, and so will the nations that forget God (Psalm 9:17)
_ God has seen it; For You look upon cruelty and wickedness, to repay with Your own hand; but the poor give themselves to the Lord; God is the helper of the fatherless (Psalm 10:14).
_For the LORD is righteous; He loves righteousness: The upright will see His face (Psalm 11:7).
_ As for me, through righteousness I will see Your face; When I awake, I will be satisfied to see your form (Psalm 17:15).
_ Some trust in chariots, others in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God - They bowed down and fell, but we arose and stood up (Ps. Psalm 20: 7 – 8)
_ Indeed, no one who trusts in Him will be ashamed; But those who commit deceit without cause will be ashamed (Psalm 25:3).
_ Evil people have many pains; But he who trusts in the LORD, mercy surrounds him - rejoice and be glad in the LORD, O righteous one! Shout for joy, you upright in heart! (Psalm 32: 10 – 11)
_ Commit your way to the Lord, and trust in Him, and He will make it happen (Psalm 37:5).
_ People will say: Surely there is a reward for the righteous, surely there is a God who judges on earth (Psalm 58:11)
_ Righteousness will go before Him, making His footsteps a path worth following (Psalm 85:13)
_ Justice and righteousness are the foundations of God's throne; Mercy and truth go before the Lord (Psalm 89:14).
_ May God help us from trouble; For the help of man is vain (Psalm 108:12).
_ It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in man - It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in kings (Psalm 118: 8 - 9)
_ Your righteousness is eternal righteousness; Your law is true (Psalm 119:142).
_ Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion, which cannot be shaken, lasting forever (Psalm 125:1).
_ If the Lord does not build the house, the builders work in vain. If the LORD does not guard the city, the watchman keeps watch in vain. In vain do you wake up early, go to bed late, and eat the bread of labor; God also gives sleep to those He loves (Psalm 127: 1-2).
_ I know that the Lord will defend the cause of the afflicted and give righteous judgment to the needy (Psalm 140:12).
_ Do not judge Your servant; For no living person will be justified before the Lord (Psalm 143:2).
_ Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding – In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will direct your paths (Proverbs 3:5-6)
_ The curse of the LORD is upon the house of the wicked; But He blesses the dwelling of the righteous (Proverbs 3:33).
_ Whatever the wicked fear, will surely happen to him; But the righteous will have their desires fulfilled (Proverbs 10:24).
_ In the day of wrath, wealth is of no use; righteousness alone delivers from death – The righteousness of the perfect man makes his way; but the wicked fall through their own wickedness - the righteousness of the upright will deliver them, but the unfaithful are caught in their wickedness (Proverbs 11:4-6)
_ Evil people earn false wages; But whoever sows righteousness will have a sure reward – he who is steadfast in righteousness will see life; But those who pursue evil bring death to themselves (Proverbs 11:18-19).
_ Indeed, the wicked will never escape punishment; But the seed of the righteous will be saved (Proverbs 11:21).
_ Whoever trusts in his wealth will fall; But the righteous are as green as leaves (Proverbs 11:28).
_The fruit of the righteous is like the tree of life; A wise person has the ability to win people's souls (Proverbs 11:30).
_ The plans of the heart belong to humans; But the answer of the tongue comes from the Lord - All his ways are pure in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the heart - Commit your deeds to the Lord, and your plans will be fulfilled. merit (Proverbs 16:1 – 3)
_ It is better to have little with righteousness than to have much fruit with injustice (Proverbs 16:8).
_ Whoever seeks righteousness and mercy will find life, righteousness, and honor (Proverbs 21:21)
_ Whoever sows injustice will reap disaster; and the rod of his wrath shall be broken (Proverbs 22:8).
_ Trusting an unfaithful person in the day of trouble is like a broken tooth, like a twisted leg (Proverbs 25:19).
_ A selfish person is not good; Even for a piece of bread, a person commits a sin (Proverbs 28:21).
_ Whoever trusts in his own heart is a fool; But whoever walks wisely will be saved (Proverbs 28:26).
_ Truly, there is no righteous person on earth who does good and has not sinned (Ecclesiastes 7:20).
_ Whoever digs a tunnel will fall into it, and whoever breaks down a wall will be bitten by a snake. Whoever rolls a stone away from it will be injured; Those who chop wood are sometimes in danger (Ecclesiastes 10:8-9).
_ Learn to do good, seek righteousness; Defend the oppressed, do justice to the fatherless, defend the widow (Isaiah 1:17).
_ Do not rely on humans, who have breath in their nostrils; Because they don't matter? (Isaiah 2:22)
_ Proclaim blessings to the righteous; for they will eat the fruit of their deeds – Woe to the wicked, who will surely bring disaster! Because they will collect what they have done with their own hands! (Isaiah 3: 10 – 11)
_ Who among you fears the LORD and hears the voice of His servant? Let him who walks in darkness and has no light let him hope in the name of the Lord and rely on God (Isaiah 50:10).
_ We have all become like unclean things, and all our righteous deeds are like filthy rags; We all wither like leaves, and our sins carry us away like the wind (Isaiah 64:6).
_ For my eyes are attentive to all their ways, and their sins will not be hid from my sight. I will first repay their iniquities and their sins twofold for their sakes. have defiled my land with the carcasses of detestable things, and filled my inheritance with detestable things (Jeremiah 16:17-18).
_Thus says the LORD: Cursed is the man who trusts in man, who makes flesh his arm, whose heart departs from the LORD; desolate and dry, in a salty uninhabited land - Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, and whose hope is in the LORD - like a tree planted by the stream, which sends out its roots with the flowing water; When it's sunny, there's no fear, but the leaves are still green. There is nothing to worry about in a year of drought, but it will continue to bear fruit without ceasing (Jeremiah 17:5-8).
_ He who becomes rich does not follow righteousness, like a partridge that incubates eggs that he does not lay; Half of a person's life is lost, and in the end he becomes foolish (Jeremiah 17:11).
_ But each one will die for his own iniquity; Everyone who eats sour grapes will have their teeth set on edge (Jeremiah 31:30).
_ Behold, every soul belongs to me; The soul of the father as well as the soul of the son belongs to me; The soul that sins will die (Ezekiel 18:4).
_ The soul that sins will die. The son will not bear the iniquity of the father, and the father will not bear the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous will be counted upon him, and the evil of the wicked will be upon him (Ezekiel 18:20).
Son of man, say to the children of your people: The righteousness of the righteous will not save them in the day they sin, and the wickedness of the wicked will not cause them to stumble in the day they sin. have turned away from that evil, just as the righteous will not live on the day of his transgression because of the righteousness that has passed. Even if I tell the righteous that he will surely live, if he relies on righteousness. If he sins, none of his righteous deeds will be remembered; But he will die in his iniquity (Ezekiel 33: 12 - 13).
_ Sow for yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; Let's break new ground! For it is a time to seek the Lord until He comes and rains righteousness on you (Hosea 10:12).
_ The Lord is slow to anger and great in power; But He does not hold the guilty innocent...(Na Hum 1:3a)
_ Behold, the heart of man is arrogant, there is no righteousness in it; But the righteous live by their faith (Habakkuk 2:4).
_ The LORD who is in her midst is righteous and will never do iniquity; Every morning He shows His righteousness in the light, without end; But the unjust have no shame (Zephaniah 3:5).
_ Therefore, whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them, for this is the law and the prophets (Matthew 7:12).
_ ….Jesus said to them: A prophet is despised only in his own country and in his own household. He did not do many miracles there, because they did not believe (Matthew 13:57 – 58 )
_ He answered and said to them, Because of your little faith: For I tell you the truth, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move there. , and there is nothing that you will be unable to do (Matthew 17:20).
_ Jesus answered and said: Have faith in God - Truly I say to you
_ But He said to the woman: Your faith has saved you; Go in peace (Luke 7:50).
_ The Lord answered and said, If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you will say to this mulberry tree, 'Be uprooted and planted in the sea,' and it will obey (Luke 17:6).
_ The Father loves the Son and has given all things into his hand – Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; Whoever does not believe in the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him (John 3:35-36).
_ Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my words and believes him who sent me has eternal life, and will not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life (John 5). : 24 )
_ I have come in my Father's name, and you have not received me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive it. If you still receive glory from one another, and do not seek the glory that comes from God alone, how can you believe? (John 5: 43 - 44)
_ They said, "What must we do to do God's work?" Jesus answered, "You believe in Him whom God has sent; this is His work" (John 6:28-29).
_ Jesus said again: Did I not tell you that if you believe you will see the glory of God? (John 11:40)
_ ..Jesus answered and said: Whoever believes in me does not believe in me, but believes in Him who sent me - And whoever sees me sees Him who sent me - I am the light that has come into the world, that whoever believes in me will no longer be in darkness (John 12:44-46).
_ Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these, because I go to the Father (John 14:12).
_ It is through faith in His name that His name established this man (the lame man at the Beautiful Gate) whom you see and know; That is, the faith that comes from Him has given this man perfect health in the presence of all of you (Acts 3:16).
_ …and asked: My lords, what must I do to be saved? - The two answered, "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you and your household will be saved" (Acts 16:30-31).
_ For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, first for the Jew, then for the Greek - for in this gospel the righteousness of God is revealed. by faith, which leads to faith, as it is written: The righteous shall live by faith (Romans 1:16-17).
_ Tribulation and hardship will come to everyone who does evil, ... - but glory, honor, and peace will come to everyone who does good... - For before God there is no respect for anyone (Romans 2:9 - 11 )
_ Everyone who sins without law will perish without law; But those who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law; - For it is not he who hears the law that is righteous before God, but he who does the law is declared righteous (Romans 2:12-13).
_For by the deeds of the law no one will be justified in His sight, for the law gives knowledge of sin (Romans 3:20).
_ For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God - and by His grace are justified freely through the atonement made complete in Christ Jesus (Romans 3:23-24) )
_ For we count a man to be justified by faith, and not by works of the law (Romans 3:28).
_ He (Abraham) hoped when there was no hope left, but believed, and became the father of many nations, according to the word that was spoken to him: So shall your descendants be – and he did not hesitate or doubt. of God's promise, but grew stronger in faith, and praised God - for he was convinced that whatever God had promised, He was able to fulfill - Therefore his faith was counted as righteousness (Rom. 4 : 18 ; 20 – 22 )
_ .. , faith will be credited to us who believe in Him who raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead - He was delivered up for their sins and rose again for our justification (Romans 4:24 – 25)
_ Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ (Romans 5:1).
_ And those whom He predestined, He also called, and whom He called, He also justified, and whom He justified, He also glorified (Rom. 8 : 30 )
_ …The Gentiles who did not seek righteousness obtained righteousness, but righteousness comes by faith - but as the people of Israel sought the law of righteousness, they did not attain it - Why? Because they do not seek by faith, but by works. They stumbled upon a stumbling stone - as it is written: Behold, I leave a stumbling stone, a great stone of stumbling; Whoever believes will not be ashamed (Romans 9:30-33).
_ If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved - for with the heart faith comes unto righteousness, and with the mouth testimony comes righteousness. Salvation – For the Bible says: Whoever believes in Him will not be ashamed (Romans 10:9-11).
_ That good thing is not to eat meat, not to drink wine, and to abstain from anything that causes your brother to stumble -– Whatever faith you have, keep it before God for your own sake. Blessed is he who does not condemn himself in what he has consented to! But whoever has doubts about food is condemned, because it is not done in faith; And whatever is done apart from faith is sin (Romans 14:21-23).
_ My speech and my preaching were not in clever demonstrations of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power - so that you would not base your faith on human wisdom, but on human wisdom. on the power of God (I Corinthians 2:4 - 5)
_ Don't you know that whoever serves holy food eats what is offered in the temple, and whoever serves at the altar has his portion at the altar? – Likewise, God has commanded that whoever preaches the Gospel will be nourished by the Gospel (I Corinthians 9: 13 – 14).
_ If our gospel is veiled, it is veiled only to those who are lost - to unbelievers whose minds the god of this world has blinded, so that they cannot see the bright glory of the Gospel. Christ is the image of God (II Corinthians 4:3-4).
_ Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For can righteousness and wickedness come together? Can light and darkness communicate with each other? ( II Corinthians 6:14 )
_Nevertheless, knowing that a man is justified not by works of the law, but through faith in Jesus Christ, we have believed in Jesus Christ to be justified by faith in Christ, not through works of the law; For no one will be justified by the works of the law (Galatians 2:16).
_ Just as Abraham believed in God, and it was credited to him as righteousness, - so you must know that those who believe are Abraham's true descendants - and whoever believes will be blessed with Abraham, who has faith (Galatians 3:6 – 7; 9)
_For everyone who trusts in the works of the law is cursed; for it is written: Cursed is everyone who does not persevere in all that is written in the book of the law, to do them; By the law you will be justified before God, for the righteous will live by faith. For the law is not the same thing as faith, but it is written: Whoever keeps the commandments will live by them - Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, because He became a curse for us - for it is written: Cursed is everyone who hangs on tree _ - that the blessing given to Abraham through Jesus Christ might be extended to the Gentiles, and that we through faith might receive the promised Holy Spirit (Galatians 3:10-14).
_ For you are all sons of God through faith in Jesus Christ - For you were all baptized into Christ and have put on Christ (Galatians 3:26-27).
_ All of you who want to be justified through the law have fallen away from Christ and have fallen from grace. As for us, we have received hope through faith and the Spirit. of righteousness (Galatians 5:4 – 5)
_ Don't lie to yourself; God does not tolerate contempt; For whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. He who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption; But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life (Galatians 6:7-8).
_ For whoever acts unrighteously will be rewarded with his own unrighteousness: no favoritism to anyone (Colossians 3:25)
_ Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners; that is a sure saying, worthy of full acceptance; Of these sinners I am chief (I Timothy 1:15).
_ I charge you before God, before the Lord Jesus Christ, and before the chosen angels, to keep these things, not to think in advance, in everything, do not show favoritism to either side - Do not be hasty in laying hands on anyone, do not be involved in the sins of others; Keep yourselves pure (I Timothy 5:21-22).
_ I pray thee that this faith, which is common to us, may be effective, that it may be known that all good things are done in us through Christ (Phil.
_ But if you are partial to others, you are guilty, and the law condemns you as transgressors. For whoever keeps the whole law and yet offends one commandment, he is guilty of all. James 2: 9 – 10)
_ Regarding faith, it's the same thing; If faith does not produce works, it is dead by itself. You see, then, that faith works together with works, and that through works faith is made perfect. By this you know that a man relies on works. Justification by faith alone (James 2:17; 22; 24)
_For the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace to those who make peace (James 3:18).
_ He is the One you do not see, but love; Even though you do not see Him now, believe in Him and rejoice with an indescribable and glorious joy – receiving the reward of your faith, the salvation of your souls (1 Peter 1:8-9). )
_ For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are attentive to their prayers, but the face of the Lord is set against those who do evil (I Peter 3:12).
_ If you know that He is righteous, then know that whoever practices righteousness is born of Him (I John 2:29).
_ Little children, let no one deceive you: he who does righteousness is righteous, even as God himself is righteous (I John 3:7).
_ If anyone confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God is in him, and he is in God - We know and believe in God's love for us. God is love; whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him (I John 4:15-16).
_ For whatever is born of God prevails over the world; And the victory that overcomes the world is our faith - Who is the one who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? (I John 5:4 – 5)