Righteousness

What does righteousness look like?  Here are the Old Testament verses about this topic in the Amplified Bible Translation to give a fuller picture:


Genesis 15:6
     And he [Abram] believed in (trusted in, relied on, remained steadfast to) the Lord, and He counted it to him as righteousness (right standing with God).


Job 29:14
     I put on righteousness, and it clothed me or clothed itself with me; my justice was like a robe and a turban or a diadem or a crown!


Psalm 4:1
     Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness (uprightness, justice, and right standing with You)! You have freed me when I was hemmed in and enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me and hear my prayer.


Psalm 24:5
     He shall receive blessing from the Lord and righteousness from the God of his salvation.


Psalm 35:28
     And my tongue shall talk of Your righteousness, rightness, and justice, and of [my reasons for] Your praise all the day long.


Psalm 40:9
     I have proclaimed glad tidings of righteousness in the great assembly [tidings of uprightness and right standing with God]. Behold, I have not restrained my lips, as You know, O Lord.


Psalm 50:6
     And the heavens declare His righteousness (rightness and justice), for God, He is judge. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]!


Psalm 85:10, 13
     Mercy and loving-kindness and truth have met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.  Righteousness shall go before Him and shall make His footsteps a way in which to walk.


Psalm 111:3
     His work is honorable and glorious, and His righteousness endures forever.


Proverbs 10:2
     Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness (moral and spiritual rectitude in every area and relation) delivers from death.


Proverbs 11:5
     The righteousness of the blameless shall rectify and make plain their way and keep it straight, but the wicked shall fall by their own wickedness.


Proverbs 12:28
     Life is in the way of righteousness (moral and spiritual rectitude in every area and relation), and in its pathway there is no death but immortality (perpetual, eternal life).


Proverbs 14:34
     Uprightness and right standing with God (moral and spiritual rectitude in every area and relation) elevate a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.


Proverbs 21:21
     He who earnestly seeks after and craves righteousness, mercy, and loving-kindness will find life in addition to righteousness (uprightness and right standing with God) and honor.


Isaiah 1:21
     How the faithful city has become an [idolatrous] harlot, she who was full of justice! Uprightness and right standing with God [once] lodged in her--but now murderers.


Isaiah 45:24
     Only in the Lord shall one say, I have righteousness (salvation and victory) and strength [to achieve]. To Him shall all come who were incensed against Him, and they shall be ashamed.


Isaiah 51:8
     For [in comparison with the Lord they are so weak that things as insignificant as] the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool. But My rightness and justice [and faithfully fulfilled promise] shall be forever, and My salvation to all generations.


Isaiah 57:12
     I will expose your [pretended] righteousness and your doings, but they will not help you.


Isaiah 59:17
     For [the Lord] put on righteousness as a breastplate or coat of mail, and salvation as a helmet upon His head; He put on garments of vengeance for clothing and was clad with zeal [and furious divine jealousy] as a cloak.


Isaiah 62:1
     For Zion's sake will I [Isaiah] not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest until her imputed righteousness and vindication go forth as brightness, and her salvation radiates as does a burning torch.


Jeremiah 23:6
     In His days Judah shall be saved and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is His name by which He shall be called: The Lord Our Righteousness.


Jeremiah 33:15
     In those days and at that time will I cause a righteous Branch [the Messiah] to grow up to David; and He shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.


Ezekial 18:20
     The soul that sins, it [is the one that] shall die. The son shall not bear and be punished for the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear and be punished for the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him only, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon the wicked only.


Daniel 12:3
     And the teachers and those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the firmament, and those who turn many to righteousness (to uprightness and right standing with God) [shall give forth light] like the stars forever and ever.


More to come tomorrow.