What is righteousness?

Question

Upright, perfect, moral, right behaviour, justice,obedience,pure conduct,fairness, equal rights,straight and clean. What is the meaning of righteousness as stated in the bible? An accurate and exact meaning?God's righteousness?God's standard?

Answer 1

Righteousness = being right.

-as stated in the Bible = OBEIDIENT

Answer 2

Proverbs 14:34

Righteousness exalts a nation,
but sin is a disgrace to any people.

Matthew 5:6
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.

Matthew 5:10
Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 5:20
For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 6:33
But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

Hebrews 1:9
You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, has set you above your companions by anointing you with the oil of joy."

James 3:18
Peacemakers who sow in peace raise a harvest of righteousness.

1 Peter 2:24
He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed.
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Righteousness is Godliness. Righteousness is justice and purity. Righteousness is the opposite of sin.

Answer 3

I despise righteousness because those who claim to have it cannot help but allow themselves to feel superior to others. No one is superior to another person.

Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source
right·eous·ness
–noun
1. the quality or state of being righteous.
2. righteous conduct.
3. the quality or state of being just or rightful: They came to realize the righteousness of her position on the matter.

Answer 4

RIGHTEOUSNESS: The Hebrew tse´dheq and tsedha·qah´ as well as the Greek di·kai·o·sy´ne have the thought of “rectitude,” “uprightness,” indicating a standard or norm determining what is upright. “Righteousness” is frequently used in connection with a judge, or with judgment, giving the term a somewhat legal flavor (hence, the original-language terms are at times translated “justice”). (Ps 35:24; 72:2; 96:13; Isa 11:4; Re 19:11) In the Mosaic Law, at Leviticus 19:36, tse´dheq is used four times in connection with business transactions: “You should prove to have accurate [“just,” AT, KJ, Le] scales, accurate weights, an accurate ephah and an accurate hin.”

God loves the righteous and cares for them. David wrote: “A young man I used to be, I have also grown old, and yet I have not seen anyone righteous left entirely, nor his offspring looking for bread.” (Ps 37:25) Solomon said: “Jehovah will not cause the soul of the righteous one to go hungry, but the craving of the wicked ones he will push away.” (Pr 10:3) God is to judge the inhabited earth in righteousness by Jesus Christ, and he will create “new heavens and a new earth” in which righteousness is to dwell. (Ac 17:31; 2Pe 3:13) Eventual possession of the earth is promised to the righteous; the wicked are to be cleared out of the earth as “a ransom” for the righteous, for as long as the wicked are in control, the righteous cannot have peace. And the possessions of the wicked will go to the righteous, as the proverb states: “The wealth of the sinner is something treasured up for the righteous one.”—Pr 13:22; 21:18.

The person who perseveres in righteousness is assured of God’s goodwill and the approval of righthearted men now and for all time to come, for “the remembrance of the righteous one is due for a blessing [and will be “to time indefinite”], but the very name of the wicked ones will rot.”—Pr 10:7; Ps 112:6.

Seek God’s Righteousness. Jesus admonished his hearers: “Keep on, then, seeking first the kingdom and [God’s] righteousness, and all these other things will be added to you.” (Mt 6:33) A person needs to keep seeking the Kingdom; he must desire that government and be loyal to it. But he cannot forget that it is the Kingdom of God; he must conform to God’s will, to God’s standard of right and wrong in conduct, and he must continually ‘make his mind over’ so that every facet of his life is in accord with God’s righteousness. (Ro 12:2) He must “put on the new personality which was created according to God’s will in true righteousness and loyalty.”—Eph 4:23, 24.

The Jews thought that they were safe and would receive God’s Kingdom by seeking to establish their own righteousness, but they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God. (Ro 10:1-3) That is why Jesus said to his disciples: “For I say to you that if your righteousness does not abound more than that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter into the kingdom of the heavens.” These men had a form of righteousness in their obedience to certain of the requirements of the Law and to their added traditions. But they had actually made the word of God invalid because of their tradition, and they rejected Christ, the way provided by God through whom they could have obtained real righteousness.—Mt 5:17-20; 15:3-9; Ro 10:4.

Answer 5

You gave the answer. There is only one righteous and that is Christ. Al;l others can recieve His righteousness and stand befor an all Holy Righteous GOD. For this you need the saving grace through the name of Jesus.

Answer 6

According to Martin Luther, there is no way anyone can be righteous in the eyes of God. No known act commited by a person can be righteous and is always considered sin in the eyes of God.

Answer 7

In Hebrew;

06662 qydu tsaddiyq tsad-deek’

from 06663; TWOT-1879c; adj

AV-righteous 162, just 42, righteous man 1, lawful 1; 206

1) just, lawful, righteous
1a) just, righteous (in government)
1b) just, right (in one’s cause)
1c) just, righteous (in conduct and character)
1d) righteous (as justified and vindicated by God)
1e) right, correct, lawful

In Greek;

1342 dikaiov dikaios dik’-ah-yos

from 1349; TDNT-2:182,168; adj

AV-righteous 41, just 33, right 5, meet 2; 81

1) righteous, observing divine laws
1a) in a wide sense, upright, righteous, virtuous, keeping the commands of God
1a1) of those who seem to themselves to be righteous, who pride themselves to be righteous, who pride themselves in their virtues, whether real or imagined
1a2) innocent, faultless, guiltless
1a3) used of him whose way of thinking, feeling, and acting is wholly conformed to the will of God, and who therefore needs no rectification in the heart or life
1a3a) only Christ truly
1a4) approved of or acceptable of God
1b) in a narrower sense, rendering to each his due and that in a judicial sense, passing just judgment on others, whether expressed in words or shown by the manner of dealing with them

However scripture says,

Isa 64:6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

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Answer 8

God's standards - perfection - complete morality and holiness.

Answer 9

Living according to those covenants that apply to you, to the best of one's ability....both in the spirit and to the letter of those covenants.

Answer 10

It is simple.
I can answer you question by asking one.
What is sin?
Sin is simply disobeying God... is it not?