Righteousness

1 Corinthians 1:30 (New International Version, ©2011)

³⁰ It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God—that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption.

2 Corinthians 5:21 (New International Version, ©2011)

²¹ God made him who had no sin to be sin^[a] for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

Galatians 3:6-7 (New International Version, ©2011)

⁶ So also Abraham “believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”^[a]

 ⁷ Understand, then, that those who have faith are children of Abraham.

Philippians 3:9 (New International Version, ©2011)

⁹ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in^[a] Christ—the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith.

Romans 3:22 (New International Version, ©2011)

²² This righteousness is given through faith in^[a] Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile,

Romans 3:24-26 (New International Version, ©2011)

²⁴ and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. ²⁵ God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement,^[a] through the shedding of his blood—to be received by faith. He did this to demonstrate his righteousness, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished— ²⁶ he did it to demonstrate his righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.

Romans 4:5 (New International Version, ©2011)

⁵ However, to the one who does not work but trusts God who justifies the ungodly, their faith is credited as righteousness.

Romans 8:10 (New International Version, ©2011)

¹⁰ But if Christ is in you, then even though your body is subject to death because of sin, the Spirit gives life^[a] because of righteousness.