Bible Verses About Intercession for the Righteous

Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favor my righteous cause: yes, let them say continually, Let the LORD be magnified, who hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.

So that a man shall say, Verily [there is] a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.

Thy word [is] true [from] the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments [endureth] for ever.

For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands to iniquity.

Let the righteous smite me; [it shall be] a kindness: and let him reprove me; [it shall be] an excellent oil, [which] shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also [shall be] in their calamities.

Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the righteous shall encompass me; for thou wilt deal bountifully with me.

The righteous [man] wisely considereth the house of the wicked: [but God] overthroweth the wicked for [their] wickedness.

But go ye and learn what [that] meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

For verily I say to you, That many prophets and righteous [men] have desired to see [the things] which ye see, and have not seen [them]; and to hear [the things] which ye hear, and have not heard [them].

For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.

Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what [is] the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints, according to [the will of] God.

Who [is] he that condemneth? [It is] Christ that died, or rather that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.

For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favor wilt thou compass him as [with] a shield.

For the righteous LORD loveth righteousness; his countenance beholdeth the upright.

There were they in great fear: for God [is] in the generation of the righteous.

Rejoice in the LORD, O ye righteous: [for] praise is comely for the upright.

For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the LORD upholdeth the righteous.

The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein for ever.

Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.

Surely he shall not be moved for ever: the righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance.

He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: [he is] a buckler to them that walk uprightly.

For the froward [is] abomination to the LORD: but his secret [is] with the righteous.

The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.

The wicked [shall be] a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright.

And the LORD said to Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark: for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

Peradventure there are fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that [are] in it?

And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.

Peradventure there will lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for [lack of] five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy [it].

And Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, I have sinned this time: the LORD [is] righteous, and I and my people [are] wicked.

Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.

And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift; for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.

And foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a covenant with him, to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to give [it], [I say], to his seed, and hast performed thy words; for thou [art] righteous:

He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings [are they] on the throne; yes, he doth establish them for ever, and they are exalted.

I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked: for [there is] a time there for every purpose and for every work.

For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, [are] in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred [by] all [that is] before them.

Say ye to the righteous, that [it shall be] well [with him]: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.

He shall see of the travail of his soul, [and] shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.