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What Does The Bible Say About Imputed Righteousness

2 Corinthians 5:21

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God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.

Philippians 3:9

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and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God on the basis of faith.

1 Corinthians 1:30

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It is because of Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God: our righteousness, holiness, and redemption.

Romans 4:5

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However, to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the wicked, his faith is credited as righteousness.

Romans 1:17

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For the gospel reveals the righteousness of God that comes by faith from start to finish, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.”

Romans 4:6

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And David speaks likewise of the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:

Jeremiah 23:6

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In His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. And this is His name by which He will be called: The LORD Our Righteousness.

Genesis 15:6

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Abram believed the LORD, and it was credited to him as righteousness.

1 Peter 2:24

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He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. “By His stripes you are healed.”

Romans 3:21-22

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But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been revealed, as attested by the Law and the Prophets. And this righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no distinction,

Romans 4:11

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And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. So then, he is the father of all who believe but are not circumcised, in order that righteousness might be credited to them.

Romans 3:22

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And this righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no distinction,

Romans 4:3

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For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”

Romans 10:3

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Because they were ignorant of God’s righteousness and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.

Romans 3:21

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But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been revealed, as attested by the Law and the Prophets.

Romans 10:4

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For Christ is the end of the law, to bring righteousness to everyone who believes.

Romans 3:21-26

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But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been revealed, as attested by the Law and the Prophets. And this righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no distinction, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. God presented Him as the atoning sacrifice through faith in His blood, in order to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance He had passed over the sins committed beforehand. . . .

Matthew 6:33

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But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.

Isaiah 64:6

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Each of us has become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all wither like a leaf, and our iniquities carry us away like the wind.

Galatians 2:16

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know that a man is not justified by works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have believed in Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.

Romans 4:13

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For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world was not given through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.

Isaiah 53:11

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After the anguish of His soul, He will see the light of life and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant will justify many, and He will bear their iniquities.

Romans 4:1-25

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What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather, has discovered? If Abraham was indeed justified by works, he had something to boast about, but not before God. For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.” Now the wages of the worker are not credited as a gift, but as an obligation. However, to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the wicked, his faith is credited as righteousness. . . .

Romans 4:22

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This is why “it was credited to him as righteousness.”

James 2:23

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And the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,” and he was called a friend of God.

Romans 3:20

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Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.

Romans 5:17

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For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive an abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ!

Romans 3:26

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He did this to demonstrate His righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and to justify the one who has faith in Jesus.

Galatians 3:6

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So also, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”

Daniel 9:24

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Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.

Isaiah 61:10

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I will rejoice greatly in the LORD, my soul will exult in my God; for He has clothed me with garments of salvation and wrapped me in a robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom wears a priestly headdress, as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

Matthew 5:20

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For I tell you that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

Romans 5:19

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For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.

Isaiah 54:17

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No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their vindication is from Me,” declares the LORD.

Matthew 5:6

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Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.

Romans 3:28

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For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the law.

2 Corinthians 5:17

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Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!

Acts 17:10-11

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As soon as night had fallen, the brothers sent Paul and Silas away to Berea. On arriving there, they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now the Bereans were more noble-minded than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if these teachings were true.

Romans 1:16-17

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I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew, then to the Greek. For the gospel reveals the righteousness of God that comes by faith from start to finish, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.”

Romans 3:24

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and are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

Romans 4:9

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Is this blessing only on the circumcised, or also on the uncircumcised? We have been saying that Abraham’s faith was credited to him as righteousness.

Romans 10:6

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But the righteousness that is by faith says: “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’ (that is, to bring Christ down)

Romans 9:30

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What then will we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith;

Romans 3:10

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As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one.

Romans 2:13

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For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but it is the doers of the law who will be declared righteous.

Leviticus 17:4

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instead of bringing it to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting to present it as an offering to the LORD before His tabernacle—that man shall incur bloodguilt. He has shed blood and must be cut off from among his people.

Leviticus 7:18

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If any of the meat from his peace offering is eaten on the third day, it will not be accepted. It will not be credited to the one who presented it; it shall be an abomination, and the one who eats of it shall bear his iniquity.

1 Peter 3:14

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But even if you should suffer for what is right, you are blessed. “Do not fear what they fear; do not be shaken.”

Romans 5:1

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Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

Deuteronomy 6:25

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And if we are careful to observe every one of these commandments before the LORD our God, as He has commanded us, then that will be our righteousness.”

Romans 6:23

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For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

2 Timothy 2:22

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Flee from youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, together with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Isaiah 45:24-25

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Surely they will say of Me, ‘In the LORD alone are righteousness and strength.’” All who rage against Him will come to Him and be put to shame. In the LORD all descendants of Israel will be justified and will exult.

1 John 3:7

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Little children, let no one deceive you: The one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as Christ is righteous.

Ephesians 2:8

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For it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not from yourselves; it is the gift of God,

Ephesians 2:8-9

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For it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not from yourselves; it is the gift of God, not by works, so that no one can boast.

Romans 3:5

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But if our unrighteousness highlights the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unjust to inflict His wrath on us? I am speaking in human terms.

Philemon 1:18-19

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But if he has wronged you in any way or owes you anything, charge it to my account. I, Paul, write this with my own hand. I will repay it—not to mention that you owe me your very self.

Galatians 2:20

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I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.

Hosea 10:12

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Sow for yourselves righteousness and reap the fruit of loving devotion; break up your unplowed ground. For it is time to seek the LORD until He comes and sends righteousness upon you like rain.

Psalm 89:16

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They rejoice in Your name all day long, and in Your righteousness they exult.

Romans 5:12-21

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Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned. For sin was in the world before the law was given; but sin is not taken into account when there is no law. Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who did not sin in the way that Adam transgressed. He is a pattern of the One to come. But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many! Again, the gift is not like the result of the one man’s sin: The judgment that followed one sin brought condemnation, but the gift that followed many trespasses brought justification. . . .

Hebrews 12:11

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No discipline seems enjoyable at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it yields a harvest of righteousness and peace to those who have been trained by it.

Isaiah 56:1

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This is what the LORD says: “Maintain justice and do what is right, for My salvation is coming soon, and My righteousness will be revealed.

Ephesians 6:14

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Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness arrayed,

Romans 3:25

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God presented Him as the atoning sacrifice through faith in His blood, in order to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance He had passed over the sins committed beforehand.

Galatians 3:13

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Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.”

Galatians 2:21

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I do not set aside the grace of God. For if righteousness comes through the law, Christ died for nothing.

1 John 3:10

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By this the children of God are distinguished from the children of the devil: Anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is anyone who does not love his brother.

1 John 2:29

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If you know that He is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of Him.

Ephesians 5:9

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for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth.

Philippians 3:8-9

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More than that, I count all things as loss compared to the surpassing excellence of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God on the basis of faith.

Romans 4:24

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but also for us, to whom righteousness will be credited—for us who believe in Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.

Titus 2:12

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It instructs us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live sensible, upright, and godly lives in the present age,

Ephesians 2:8-10

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For it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not from yourselves; it is the gift of God, not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.

Psalm 34:15

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The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous, and His ears are inclined to their cry.

Psalm 112:6

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Surely he will never be shaken; the righteous man will be remembered forever.

Titus 3:5

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He saved us, not by the righteous deeds we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of new birth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.

Ephesians 4:24

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and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.

2 Peter 3:9

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The Lord is not slow in keeping His promise as some understand slowness, but is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish but everyone to come to repentance.

Galatians 3:21

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Is the law, then, opposed to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given that could impart life, then righteousness would certainly have come from the law.

Galatians 5:6

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For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. All that matters is faith, expressed through love.

Romans 3:23

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for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Ezekiel 33:12

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Therefore, son of man, say to your people: ‘The righteousness of the righteous man will not deliver him in the day of his transgression; neither will the wickedness of the wicked man cause him to stumble on the day he turns from his wickedness. Nor will the righteous man be able to survive by his righteousness on the day he sins.’

James 3:18

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Peacemakers who sow in peace reap the fruit of righteousness.

Proverbs 10:2

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Ill-gotten treasures profit nothing, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.

Luke 1:6

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Both of them were righteous in the sight of God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and decrees of the Lord.

Romans 2:26

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If a man who is not circumcised keeps the requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?

Romans 5:18

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So then, just as one trespass brought condemnation for all men, so also one act of righteousness brought justification and life for all men.

Romans 4:17

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As it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.” He is our father in the presence of God, in whom he believed, the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being what does not yet exist.

Romans 4:8

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Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will never count against him.”

Philippians 2:13

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For it is God who works in you to will and to act on behalf of His good purpose.

Romans 4:15

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because the law brings wrath. And where there is no law, there is no transgression.

Hebrews 9:28

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so also Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many; and He will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who eagerly await Him.

John 1:14

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The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

Romans 8:1-4

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Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For in Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set you free from the law of sin and death. For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful man, as an offering for sin. He thus condemned sin in the flesh, so that the righteous standard of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

Colossians 3:11

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Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, or free, but Christ is all and is in all.

1 John 1:9

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If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

1 Corinthians 15:34

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Sober up as you ought, and stop sinning; for some of you are ignorant of God. I say this to your shame.

Genesis 18:25

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Far be it from You to do such a thing—to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are treated alike. Far be it from You! Will not the Judge of all the earth do what is right?”

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