Righteousness & the Fruit of the Spirit

Love

Psalm 33:5 He loves righteousness and justice. The earth is full of the loving kindness of the Lord.

Psalm 85:10 Mercy and truth meet together. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

Psalm 89:14 Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne. Loving kindness and truth go before your face.

Proverbs 21:21 He who follows after righteousness and kindness finds life, righteousness, and honor.

Isaiah 16:5 A throne will be established in loving kindness. One will sit on it in truth, in the tent of David, judging, seeking justice, and swift to do righteousness.

Hosea 10:12 Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek the Lord, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.

1 Corinthians 13:4-6 Love . . . doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness . . .

1 Timothy 6:11 But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, and gentleness.

2 Timothy 2:22 Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Joy

Job 33:26 He prays to God, and he is favorable to him, so that he sees his face with joy. He restores to man his righteousness.

Psalm 45:7 You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.

Psalm 97:11 Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.

Psalm 118:15 The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tents of the righteous. . . .

Psalm 132:9 Let your priest be clothed with righteousness. Let your saints shout for joy!

Proverbs 10:28 The prospect of the righteous is joy, but the hope of the wicked will perish.

Proverbs 11:10 When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices. When the wicked perish, there is shouting.

Proverbs 21:15 It is joy to the righteous to do justice . . .

Proverbs 23:24 The father of the righteous has great joy. . . .

Romans 14:17 for God’s Kingdom is . . . righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Hebrews 1:9 You have loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.

Peace

Psalms 85:10 Mercy and truth meet together. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

Isaiah 32:17 The work of righteousness will be peace . . .

Psalm 119:165 Those who love your law have great peace . . .

Isaiah 48:18 Oh that you had listened to my commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

Isaiah 57:2 He enters into peace . . . each one who walks in his uprightness.

Isaiah 57:21 “There is no peace”, says my God, “for the wicked.”

Isaiah 60:17  . . . I will also make peace your governor, and righteousness your ruler.

Malachi 2:5-6 My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him that he might be reverent toward me; and he was reverent toward me, and stood in awe of my name. The law of truth was in his mouth, and unrighteousness was not found in his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and turned many away from iniquity.

Romans 14:17 for God’s Kingdom is . . . righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

2 Timothy 2:22 Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Hebrews 12:11  . . . it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.

Patience

1 Timothy 6:11 But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, and gentleness.

2 Peter 1:5-7 Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all . . . patience; and in patience godliness . . .

Kindness

1 Kings 3:6 Solomon said, “You have shown to your servant David my father great loving kindness, because he walked before you in truth, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with you. You have kept for him this great loving kindness, that you have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is today.

Jeremiah 9:24  . . . I am the Lord who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight . . .

Goodness

Romans 7:12 Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.

Ephesians 5:9 for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth

2 Peter 1:5,6 Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, . . . godliness, . . .

Faithfulness

1 Samuel 26:23 The Lord will render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness; because the Lord delivered you into my hand today, and I wouldn’t stretch out my hand against the Lord’s anointed.

1 Kings 3:6 Solomon said, “You have shown to your servant David my father great loving kindness, because he walked before you in truth, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with you. You have kept for him this great loving kindness, that you have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is today.

Psalm 85:10 Mercy and truth meet together. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

Psalm 85:11 Truth springs out of the earth. Righteousness has looked down from heaven.

Psalm 89:14 Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne. Loving kindness and truth go before your face.

Psalm 143:1 Hear my prayer, Lord. Listen to my petitions. In your faithfulness and righteousness, relieve me.

Isaiah 1:26 I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward you shall be called ‘The city of righteousness, a faithful town.’

Isaiah 16:5 A throne will be established in loving kindness. One will sit on it in truth, in the tent of David, judging, seeking justice, and swift to do righteousness.

Isaiah 11:5 Righteousness will be the belt of his waist, and faithfulness the belt of his waist.

Ezekiel 18:9 has walked in my statutes, and has kept my ordinances, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live, says the Lord.

Zechariah 8:8 and I will bring them, and they will dwell within Jerusalem; and they will be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness.

Gentleness

1 Timothy 6:11 But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, and gentleness.

Acts 24:25 As he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come . . .

Psalms 85:10 Mercy and truth meet together. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

Self-Control

2 Peter 1:5-7 Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all . . . self-control; and in self-control . . . godliness, . . .