I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!

The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rocks and make your home on the heights, you who say to yourself, 'Who can bring me down to the ground?

Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.

You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden.

Now let the fear of the Lord be on you. Judge carefully, for with the Lord our God there is no injustice or partiality or bribery.

“You expected much, but see, it turned out to be little. What you brought home, I blew away. Why?” declares the Lord Almighty. “Because of my house, which remains a ruin, while each of you is busy with your own house.

I delight greatly in the Lord; my soul rejoices in my God. For he has clothed me with garments of salvation and arrayed me in a robe of his righteousness, as a bridegroom adorns his head like a priest, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

See, the enemy is puffed up; his desires are not upright— but the righteous person will live by his faithfulness.

Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!

Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers.

Make sure that nobody pays back wrong for wrong, but always strive to do what is good for each other and for everyone else.

Come back to your senses as you ought, and stop sinning; for there are some who are ignorant of God—I say this to your shame.

But for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its rays. And you will go out and frolic like well-fed calves.

He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.

For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.

We who are Jews by birth and not sinful Gentiles know that a person is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified.

He saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.

But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.

For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed—a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.”

Who is wise? Let them realize these things. Who is discerning? Let them understand. The ways of the Lord are right; the righteous walk in them, but the rebellious stumble in them.

Seek the Lord, all you humble of the land, you who do what he commands. Seek righteousness, seek humility; perhaps you will be sheltered on the day of the Lord’s anger.

For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people. It teaches us to say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age.

Whoever pursues righteousness and love finds life, prosperity and honor.