2 Corinthians 5:21 ESV / 105 helpful votes For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.Psalm 11:7 ESV / 65 helpful votes For the Lord is righteous; he loves righteous deeds; the upright shall behold his face.Matthew 6:33 ESV / 54 helpful votes But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.Romans 3:23 ESV / 40 helpful votes For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,Romans 6:23 ESV / 39 helpful votes For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.Philippians 3:9 ESV / 36 helpful votes And be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith—Ephesians 4:22-24 ESV / 36 helpful votes To put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.John 3:16 ESV / 32 helpful votes “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.1 John 1:9 ESV / 29 helpful votes If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.1 Peter 3:18 ESV / 29 helpful votes For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,1 Corinthians 1:30 ESV / 27 helpful votes And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption,Romans 3:21 ESV / 27 helpful votes But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it—2 Peter 1:4 ESV / 26 helpful votes By which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire.Matthew 5:20 ESV / 25 helpful votes For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.1 Peter 3:14 ESV / 24 helpful votes But even if you should suffer for righteousness’ sake, you will be blessed. Have no fear of them, nor be troubled,1 Peter 2:24 ESV / 23 helpful votes He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.Galatians 3:28 ESV / 23 helpful votes There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.Galatians 2:16 ESV / 19 helpful votes Yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.