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G1343 δικαιοσύνη greek

pronunciation: dikaiosýnē

definition: righteousness

equity (of character or act); specially (Christian) justification

Occurrences · 85 verses · page 1 of 4

• Matthew 3:15

  And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him.

• Matthew 5:6

  Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

• Matthew 5:10

  Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

• Matthew 5:20

  For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.

• Matthew 6:33

  But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

• Matthew 21:32

  For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not: but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and ye, when ye had seen it, repented not afterward, that ye might believe him.

• Luke 1:75

  In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.

• John 16:8

  And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:

• John 16:10

  Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more;

• Acts 10:35

  But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.

• Acts 13:10

  And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

• Acts 17:31

  Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.

• Acts 24:25

  And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this time; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee.

• Romans 1:17

  For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.

• Romans 3:5

  But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)

• Romans 3:21

  But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;

• Romans 3:22

  Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:

• Romans 3:25

  Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;

• Romans 3:26

  To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.

• Romans 4:3

  For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.

• Romans 4:5

  But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.

• Romans 4:6

  Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,

• Romans 4:9

  Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.

• Romans 4:11

  And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also:

• Romans 4:13

  For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.