Definition
righteousness
righteousness
He rules the earth with truth and grace,
and makes the nations prove
the glories of His righteousness.
| 1 Peter 2:24 | He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree so that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness (dikaiosynē | δικαιοσύνῃ | dat sg fem). By his wounds you were healed. |
| 1 Peter 3:14 | But even if you should suffer because of righteousness (dikaiosynēn | δικαιοσύνην | acc sg fem), blessed are you. And do not fear their threats or be troubled, |
| 2 Peter 1:1 | Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have received a faith that through the justice (dikaiosynē | δικαιοσύνῃ | dat sg fem) of our God and Savior Jesus Christ is of equal privilege with ours: |
| 2 Peter 2:5 | and if he did not spare the ancient world (but preserved Noah, the eighth, a herald of righteousness) (dikaiosynēs | δικαιοσύνης | gen sg fem) when he brought the deluge on an ungodly world; |
| 2 Peter 2:21 | For it would have been better for them never to have come to know the way of righteousness (dikaiosynēs | δικαιοσύνης | gen sg fem) than, having come to know it, to turn back from the holy commandment that was delivered to them. |
| 2 Peter 3:13 | But according to his promise we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness (dikaiosynē | δικαιοσύνη | nom sg fem) will be at home. |
| 1 John 2:29 | If you know that he is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness (dikaiosynēn | δικαιοσύνην | acc sg fem) has been born of him. |
| 1 John 3:7 | Little children, let no one deceive you. Whoever makes it a practice to do what is right (dikaiosynēn | δικαιοσύνην | acc sg fem) is righteous, just as he is righteous. |
| 1 John 3:10 | By this the children of God and the children of the devil are revealed: whoever does not practice righteousness (dikaiosynēn | δικαιοσύνην | acc sg fem) is not of God, nor is the one who does not love his brother. |
| Revelation 19:11 | Then I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse! The one riding it is called Faithful and True, and with justice (dikaiosynē | δικαιοσύνῃ | dat sg fem) he judges and makes war. |
| Revelation 22:11 | Let the evildoer continue to do evil, and the filthy be filthy still; let the righteous continue to act righteously (dikaiosynēn | δικαιοσύνην | acc sg fem), and the holy be holy still.” |
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