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2 Corinthians 5 21
He made the One who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
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1 Corinthians 1 30
But it is from Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who became God-given wisdom for us— our righteousness, sanctification, and redemption,
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Romans 4:13-15
For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would inherit the world was not through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.If those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made empty and the promise is canceled.For the law produces wrath. And where there is no law, there is no transgression.
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Romans 4:5-6
But to the one who does not work, but believes on Him who declares the ungodly to be righteous, his faith is credited for righteousness.Likewise, David also speaks of the blessing of the man God credits righteousness to apart from works:
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Romans 1:17
For in it God’s righteousness is revealed from faith to faith, just as it is written: The righteous will live by faith.
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Romans 9:30-32
What should we say then? Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained righteousness— namely the righteousness that comes from faith.But Israel, pursuing the law for righteousness, has not achieved the righteousness of the law.Why is that? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone.
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Galatians 2:16
know that no one is justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ. And we have believed in Christ Jesus so that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no human being will be justified.
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Isaiah 53:11
He will see it out of His anguish, and He will be satisfied with His knowledge. My righteous Servant will justify many, and He will carry their iniquities.
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Romans 7:5-13
For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions operated through the law in every part of us and bore fruit for death.But now we have been released from the law, since we have died to what held us, so that we may serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old letter of the law.What should we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin if it were not for the law. For example, I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, Do not covet.And sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me coveting of every kind. For apart from the law sin is dead.Once I was alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin sprang to lifeand I died. The commandment that was meant for life resulted in death for me.For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and just and good.Therefore, did what is good cause my death? Absolutely not! On the contrary, sin, in order to be recognized as sin, was producing death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment, sin might become sinful beyond measure.
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Jeremiah 33:16
In those days Judah will be saved, and Jerusalem will dwell securely, and this is what she will be named: Yahweh Our Righteousness.
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Romans 8:1
Therefore, no condemnation now exists for those in Christ Jesus,
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Romans 3:19-22
Now we know that whatever the law says speaks to those who are subject to the law, so that every mouth may be shut and the whole world may become subject to God’s judgment.For no one will be justified in His sight by the works of the law, because the knowledge of sin comes through the law.But now, apart from the law, God’s righteousness has been revealed— attested by the Law and the Prophets— that is, God’s righteousness through faith in Jesus Christ, to all who believe, since there is no distinction.
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Philippians 3:6
regarding zeal, persecuting the church; regarding the righteousness that is in the law, blameless.
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Galatians 3:21-22
Is the law therefore contrary to God’s promises? Absolutely not! For if a law had been given that was able to give life, then righteousness would certainly be by the law.But the Scripture has imprisoned everything under sin’s power, so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
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Romans 10:10
One believes with the heart, resulting in righteousness, and one confesses with the mouth, resulting in salvation.
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Ecclesiastes 7:20
There is certainly no righteous man on the earth who does good and never sins.
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Jeremiah 23:6
In His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. This is what He will be named: Yahweh Our Righteousness.
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Romans 10:1-6
Brothers, my heart’s desire and prayer to God concerning them is for their salvation!I can testify about them that they have zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.Because they disregarded the righteousness from God and attempted to establish their own righteousness, they have not submitted themselves to God’s righteousness.For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.For Moses writes about the righteousness that is from the law: The one who does these things will live by them.But the righteousness that comes from faith speaks like this: Do not say in your heart,“ Who will go up to heaven?” that is, to bring Christ down
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Titus 3:5
He saved us— not by works of righteousness that we had done, but according to His mercy— through the washing of regeneration and renewal by the Holy Spirit.
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2 Timothy 1 9
He has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began.
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Matthew 9:13
Go and learn what this means: I desire mercy and not sacrifice. For I didn’t come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
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1 John 1 8-1 John 1 10
If we say,“ We have no sin,” we are deceiving ourselves, and the truth is not in us.If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.If we say,“ We don’t have any sin,” we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.
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Psalms 143:2
Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous in Your sight.
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Romans 8:3
What the law could not do since it was limited by the flesh, God did. He condemned sin in the flesh by sending His own Son in flesh like ours under sin’s domain, and as a sin offering,
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Galatians 3:10-13
For all who rely on the works of the law are under a curse, because it is written: Everyone who does not continue doing everything written in the book of the law is cursed.Now it is clear that no one is justified before God by the law, because the righteous will live by faith.But the law is not based on faith; instead, the one who does these things will live by them.Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, because it is written: Everyone who is hung on a tree is cursed.
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Isaiah 53:6
We all went astray like sheep; we all have turned to our own way; and the Lord has punished Him for the iniquity of us all.
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1 Peter 3 19-1 Peter 3 20
In that state He also went and made a proclamation to the spirits in prisonwho in the past were disobedient, when God patiently waited in the days of Noah while an ark was being prepared. In it a few— that is, eight people— were saved through water.
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2 Corinthians 5 17
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away, and look, new things have come.
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Luke 10:25-29
Just then an expert in the law stood up to test Him, saying,“ Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”“ What is written in the law?” He asked him.“ How do you read it?”He answered: Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.“ You’ve answered correctly,” He told him.“ Do this and you will live.”But wanting to justify himself, he asked Jesus,“ And who is my neighbor?”
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1 Kings 8 46
When they sin against You— for there is no one who does not sin— and You are angry with them and hand them over to the enemy, and their captors deport them to the enemy’s country— whether distant or nearby—
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Psalms 14:3
All have turned away; all alike have become corrupt. There is no one who does good, not even one.
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Psalms 19:12
Who perceives his unintentional sins? Cleanse me from my hidden faults.
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Genesis 7:23
He wiped out every living thing that was on the surface of the ground, from mankind to livestock, to creatures that crawl, to the birds of the sky, and they were wiped off the earth. Only Noah was left, and those that were with him in the ark.
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Psalms 130:3-4
Yahweh, if You considered sins, Lord, who could stand?But with You there is forgiveness, so that You may be revered.
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Daniel 9:24
Seventy weeks are decreed about your people and your holy city— to bring the rebellion to an end, to put a stop to sin, to wipe away iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy place.
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2 Chronicles 32 25
However, because his heart was proud, Hezekiah didn’t respond according to the benefit that had come to him. So there was wrath on him, Judah, and Jerusalem.
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Romans 16:7
Greet Andronicus and Junia, my fellow countrymen and fellow prisoners. They are noteworthy in the eyes of the apostles, and they were also in Christ before me.
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2 Chronicles 32 31
When the ambassadors of Babylon’s rulers were sent to him to inquire about the miraculous sign that happened in the land, God left him to test him and discover what was in his heart.
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Deuteronomy 19:3-4
You are to determine the distances and divide the land the Lord your God is granting you as an inheritance into three regions, so that anyone who commits manslaughter can flee to these cities.“ Here is the law concerning a case of someone who kills a person and flees there to save his life, having killed his neighbor accidentally without previously hating him:
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James 2:9-11
But if you show favoritism, you commit sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.For whoever keeps the entire law, yet fails in one point, is guilty of breaking it all.For He who said, Do not commit adultery, also said, Do not murder. So if you do not commit adultery, but you do murder, you are a lawbreaker.
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Isaiah 45:24-25
It will be said to Me: Righteousness and strength is only in the Lord.” All who are enraged against Him will come to Him and be put to shame.All the descendants of Israel will be justified and find glory through the Lord.
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Romans 5:21
so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace will reign through righteousness, resulting in eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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Job 15:14-16
What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?If God puts no trust in His holy ones and the heavens are not pure in His sight,how much less one who is revolting and corrupt, who drinks injustice like water?
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2 Peter 1 1
Simeon Peter, a slave and an apostle of Jesus Christ: To those who have obtained a faith of equal privilege with ours through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ.
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Job 10:14-15
if I sin, You would notice, and would not acquit me of my wrongdoing.If I am wicked, woe to me! And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head. I am filled with shame and aware of my affliction.
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James 3:2
for we all stumble in many ways. If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a mature man who is also able to control his whole body.
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Hebrews 6:18
so that through two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to seize the hope set before us.
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Isaiah 46:13
I am bringing My justice near; it is not far away, and My salvation will not delay. I will put salvation in Zion, My splendor in Israel.
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Job 42:5-6
I had heard rumors about You, but now my eyes have seen You.Therefore I take back my words and repent in dust and ashes.
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Deuteronomy 27:26
‘ Anyone who does not put the words of this law into practice is cursed.’ And all the people will say,‘ Amen!’
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1 John 3 4
Everyone who commits sin also breaks the law; sin is the breaking of law.
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Isaiah 64:5-6
You welcome the one who joyfully does what is right; they remember You in Your ways. But we have sinned, and You were angry. How can we be saved if we remain in our sins?All of us have become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like a polluted garment; all of us wither like a leaf, and our iniquities carry us away like the wind.
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Isaiah 6:5
Then I said: Woe is me for I am ruined because I am a man of unclean lips and live among a people of unclean lips, and because my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of Hosts.
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Job 9:28-31
I would still live in terror of all my pains. I know You will not acquit me.Since I will be found guilty, why should I labor in vain?If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,then You dip me in a pit of mud, and my own clothes despise me!
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John 16:8-11
When He comes, He will convict the world about sin, righteousness, and judgment:About sin, because they do not believe in Me;about righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will no longer see Me;and about judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged.
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Psalms 71:15-16
My mouth will tell about Your righteousness and Your salvation all day long, though I cannot sum them up.I come because of the mighty acts of the Lord God; I will proclaim Your righteousness, Yours alone.