If the ministry that brought condemnation was glorious, how much more glorious is the ministry that brings righteousness!

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

in truthful speech and in the power of God; with weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left;

Warning against idolatry

Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?

As it is written: ‘They have freely scattered their gifts to the poor; their righteousness endures for ever.’

Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness.

It is not surprising, then, if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will be what their actions deserve.