Limitless Word
δίκαιοςdíkaios
GreekG134281 occurrences (KJV)

equitable (in character or act); by implication, innocent, holy (absolutely or relatively)

KJV renders it: just, meet, right(-eous)

Where it appears(showing the first 76 of 81)

  • Matt 1:19Joseph, her husband, being a righteous man, and not willing to make her a public example, intended to put her away secretly.
  • Matt 5:45that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.
  • Matt 9:13But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
  • Matt 10:41He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward. He who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man will receive a righteous man’s reward.
  • Matt 13:17For most certainly I tell you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see the things which you see, and didn’t see them; and to hear the things which you hear, and didn’t hear them.
  • Matt 13:43Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the Kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.
  • Matt 13:49So will it be in the end of the world. The angels will come and separate the wicked from among the righteous,
  • Matt 20:4He said to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you.’ So they went their way.
  • Matt 20:7“They said to him, ‘Because no one has hired us.’ “He said to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard, and you will receive whatever is right.’
  • Matt 23:28Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
  • Matt 23:29“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and decorate the tombs of the righteous,
  • Matt 23:35that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom you killed between the sanctuary and the altar.
  • Matt 25:37“Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry, and feed you; or thirsty, and give you a drink?
  • Matt 25:46These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
  • Matt 27:19While he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent to him, saying, “Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered many things today in a dream because of him.”
  • Matt 27:24So when Pilate saw that nothing was being gained, but rather that a disturbance was starting, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, “I am innocent of the blood of this righteous person. You see to it.”
  • Mark 2:17When Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
  • Mark 6:20for Herod feared John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and kept him safe. When he heard him, he did many things, and he heard him gladly.
  • Luke 1:6They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.
  • Luke 1:17He will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, ‘to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,’ and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to prepare a people prepared for the Lord.”
  • Luke 2:25Behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. This man was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him.
  • Luke 5:32I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
  • Luke 12:57Why don’t you judge for yourselves what is right?
  • Luke 14:14and you will be blessed, because they don’t have the resources to repay you. For you will be repaid in the resurrection of the righteous.”
  • Luke 15:7I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.
  • Luke 18:9He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others.
  • Luke 20:20They watched him, and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.
  • Luke 23:47When the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, “Certainly this was a righteous man.”
  • Luke 23:50Behold, a man named Joseph, who was a member of the council, a good and righteous man
  • John 5:30I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I don’t seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.
  • John 7:24Don’t judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.”
  • John 17:25Righteous Father, the world hasn’t known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me.
  • Acts 3:14But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,
  • Acts 4:19But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, judge for yourselves,
  • Acts 7:52Which of the prophets didn’t your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers.
  • Acts 10:22They said, “Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous man and one who fears God, and well spoken of by all the nation of the Jews, was directed by a holy angel to invite you to his house, and to listen to what you say.”
  • Acts 22:14He said, ‘The God of our fathers has appointed you to know his will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice from his mouth.
  • Acts 24:15having hope toward God, which these also themselves look for, that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.
  • Rom 1:17For in it is revealed God’s righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, “But the righteous shall live by faith.”
  • Rom 2:13For it isn’t the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified
  • Rom 3:10As it is written, “There is no one righteous; no, not one.
  • Rom 3:26to demonstrate his righteousness at this present time; that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus.
  • Rom 5:7For one will hardly die for a righteous man. Yet perhaps for a righteous person someone would even dare to die.
  • Rom 5:19For as through the one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one, many will be made righteous.
  • Rom 7:12Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.
  • Gal 3:11Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, “The righteous will live by faith.”
  • Eph 6:1Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
  • Phil 1:7It is even right for me to think this way on behalf of all of you, because I have you in my heart, because, both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the Good News, you all are partakers with me of grace.
  • Phil 4:8Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.
  • Col 4:1Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.
  • 2 Th 1:5This is an obvious sign of the righteous judgment of God, to the end that you may be counted worthy of God’s Kingdom, for which you also suffer.
  • 2 Th 1:6Since it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you,
  • 1 Tim 1:9as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
  • 2 Tim 4:8From now on, there is stored up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.
  • Titus 1:8but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, self-controlled;
  • Heb 10:38But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”
  • Heb 11:4By faith, Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had testimony given to him that he was righteous, God testifying with respect to his gifts; and through it he, being dead, still speaks.
  • Heb 12:23to the festal gathering and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,
  • Jas 5:6You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn’t resist you.
  • Jas 5:16Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.
  • 1 Pet 3:12For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears open to their prayer; but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”
  • 1 Pet 3:18Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;
  • 1 Pet 4:18“If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will happen to the ungodly and the sinner?”
  • 2 Pet 1:13I think it right, as long as I am in this tent, to stir you up by reminding you;
  • 2 Pet 2:7and delivered righteous Lot, who was very distressed by the lustful life of the wicked
  • 2 Pet 2:8(for that righteous man dwelling among them, was tormented in his righteous soul from day to day with seeing and hearing lawless deeds):
  • 1 Jn 1:9If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
  • 1 Jn 2:1My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.
  • 1 Jn 2:29If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.
  • 1 Jn 3:7Little children, let no one lead you astray. He who does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
  • 1 Jn 3:12unlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s righteous.
  • Rev 15:3They sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God, the Almighty! Righteous and true are your ways, you King of the nations.
  • Rev 16:5I heard the angel of the waters saying, “You are righteous, who are and who were, you Holy One, because you have judged these things.
  • Rev 16:7I heard the altar saying, “Yes, Lord God, the Almighty, true and righteous are your judgments.”
  • Rev 19:2for true and righteous are his judgments. For he has judged the great prostitute, who corrupted the earth with her sexual immorality, and he has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.”
  • Rev 22:11He who acts unjustly, let him act unjustly still. He who is filthy, let him be filthy still. He who is righteous, let him do righteousness still. He who is holy, let him be holy still.”

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.