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

Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

Yet the Lord longs to be gracious to you; therefore he will rise up to show you compassion. For the Lord is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait for him!

Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

Blessings crown the head of the righteous, but violence overwhelms the mouth of the wicked.

The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are attentive to their cry.

To do what is right and just is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.

You who are trying to be justified by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.

Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.

When he comes, he will prove the world to be in the wrong about sin and righteousness and judgment.

Good and upright is the Lord; therefore he instructs sinners in his ways. He guides the humble in what is right and teaches them his way.

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

Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

The righteous person may have many troubles, but the Lord delivers him from them all.

For the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth.

The tongue of the righteous is choice silver, but the heart of the wicked is of little value.

For the Lord loves the just and will not forsake his faithful ones. Wrongdoers will be completely destroyed; the offspring of the wicked will perish.

There is a way that appears to be right, but in the end it leads to death.

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to the law of the Lord.

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.

It is a trap to dedicate something rashly and only later to consider one’s vows.

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.”

But you, man of God, flee from all this, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance and gentleness.

Let the wicked forsake their ways and the unrighteous their thoughts. Let them turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy on them, and to our God, for he will freely pardon.

Better the little that the righteous have than the wealth of many wicked; for the power of the wicked will be broken, but the Lord upholds the righteous.

There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the one who is able to save and destroy. But you—who are you to judge your neighbor?

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?

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.

Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow.

Wealth is worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.

Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness.

A wicked person earns deceptive wages, but the one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.

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.

The lips of the righteous know what finds favor, but the mouth of the wicked only what is perverse.

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.

But the one who does not know and does things deserving punishment will be beaten with few blows. From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked.

Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it.

The Lord is righteous in all his ways and faithful in all he does.

“He himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; “by his wounds you have been healed.”

Christ is the culmination of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes.

Defend the weak and the fatherless; uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed.

Then you will understand what is right and just and fair—every good path.

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

With their mouths the godless destroy their neighbors, but through knowledge the righteous escape.

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

But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

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

For I take no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Sovereign Lord. Repent and live!

Yes, Lord, walking in the way of your laws, we wait for you; your name and renown are the desire of our hearts.