Little children, let no one deceive you: The one who practices righteousness ¹  is righteous, just as Jesus ²  is righteous.

Whoever receives a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward. Whoever ¹  receives a righteous person in the name of a righteous person will receive a righteous person’s reward.

For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous before God, but those who do the law will be declared righteous. ¹ 

(for while he lived among them day after day, that righteous man was tormented in his righteous soul ¹  by the lawless deeds he saw and heard ² )

And these will depart into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

I have not come ¹  to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.” ² 

just as it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one,

So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.

You have condemned and murdered the righteous person, although he does not resist you. ¹ 

And if the righteous are barely saved, what will become of ¹  the ungodly and sinners? ² 

so that on you will come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Barachiah, ¹  whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

They ¹  were both righteous in the sight of God, following ²  all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blamelessly. ³ 

Jesus ¹  also told this parable to some who were confident that they were righteous and looked down ²  on everyone else.

Now ¹  there was a man named Joseph who was a member of the council, ²  a good and righteous man.

Therefore if the uncircumcised man obeys ¹  the righteous requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?

For we consider that a person ¹  is declared righteous by faith apart from the works of the law. ² 

¹ Therefore, since we have been declared righteous by faith, we have ²  peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

Thus the law had become our guardian ¹  until Christ, so that we could be declared righteous ²  by faith.

But my righteous one will live by faith, and if he shrinks back, I ¹  take no pleasure in him. ² 

and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man in anguish over the debauched lifestyle of lawless ¹  men, ²