And having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.

I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves of uncleanness, and of lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves of righteousness for holiness.

For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.

that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

For He will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness, Because the Lord will make a short work upon the earth.”

Present Condition of Israel

What shall we say then? That Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness of faith;

but Israel, pursuing the law of righteousness, has not attained to the law of righteousness.

For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God.

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

For Moses writes about the righteousness which is of the law, “The man who does those things shall live by them.”

But the righteousness of faith speaks in this way, “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’ ” (that is, to bring Christ down from above)

For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.