Bible Verses About Righteous Living

When a man’s ways please the Lord, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.

Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the Lord understand all things.

Blessed is every one that feareth the Lord; that walketh in his ways.

He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.

For thou, Lord, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield.

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.

He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet, shall receive a prophet's reward; and he that receiveth a righteous man in the name of a righteous man, shall receive a righteous man's reward.

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].

Then shall the righteous shine as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.

I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchers of the righteous,

That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel, to the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.

Then will the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee hungry, and fed [thee]? or thirsty, and gave [thee] drink?

But Jesus held his peace. And the high priest answered and said to him, I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou art the Christ the Son of God.

And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.

And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, who had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed by any,

And the younger of them said to [his] father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth [to me]. And he divided to them [his] living.

And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.

But as soon as this thy son had come, who hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.

And he spoke this parable to certain who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others:

For all these have of their abundance cast in to the offerings of God: but she of her penury hath cast in all the living that she had.

Now when the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, Certainly this was a righteous man.

And as they were afraid, and bowed down [their] faces to the earth, they said to them, Why seek ye the living among the dead?

Jesus answered and said to her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldst have asked him, and he would have given thee living water.

The woman saith to him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?

I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man shall eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.

As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.

He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.

O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.

But after thy hardness and impenitent heart, treasurest up to thyself wrath against the day of wrath, and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;

For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet perhaps for a good man some would even dare to die.

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

And it shall come to pass, [that] in the place where it was said to them, Ye [are] not my people; there shall they be called, The children of the living God.

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, [which is] your reasonable service.

For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and the living.

And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.

Thus ye also outwardly appear righteous to men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.

I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live to him.