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“Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the Lord. (Psalms 4:5)”
Bible
“I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.”
“Righteousness exalteth a nation.”
“The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.”
“Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.”
“They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done this.”
“And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.”
“RIGHTEOUSNESS, n. A sturdy virtue that was once found among the Pantidoodles inhabiting the lower part of the peninsula of Oque. Some feeble attempts were made by returned missionaries to introduce it into several European countries, but it appears to have been imperfectly expounded. An example of this faulty exposition is found in the only extant sermon of the pious Bishop Rowley, a characteristic passage from which is here given:"Now righteousness consisteth not merely in a holy state of mind, nor yet in performance of religious rites and obedience to the letter of the law. It is not enough that one be pious and just: one must see to it that others also are in the same state; and to this end compulsion is a proper means. Forasmuch as my injustice may work ill to another, so by his injustice may evil be wrought upon still another, the which it is as manifestly my duty to estop as to forestall mine own tort. Wherefore if I would be righteous I am bound to restrain my neighbor, by force if needful, in all those injurious enterprises from which, through a better disposition and by the help of Heaven, I do myself restrain."”
Ambrose Bierce
“But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings”
“But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream”
