Strong's G1343 · Greek
δικαιοσύνη
dikaiosune · /dik-ah-yos-oo'-nay/
Definition
from 1342; equity (of character or act); specially (Christian) justification:--righteousness.
KJV: righteousness
Root / derivation: from 1342
KJV usage breakdown
How the Authorized (KJV) translators rendered δικαιοσύνη across 84 verses.
Every occurrence (KJV)
84 verses use this word, grouped by book — the translated form is highlighted.
Matthew5 verses
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
Matthew 5:10Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 5:20For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 6:33But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Matthew 21:32For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not: but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and ye, when ye had seen it, repented not afterward, that ye might believe him.
John2 verses
Acts4 verses
But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.
Acts 13:10And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
Acts 17:31Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead. hath given: or, offered faith
Acts 24:25And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this time; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee.
Romans30 verses
For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written The just shall live by faith.
Romans 3:5But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say?3361 Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)
Romans 3:21But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
Romans 3:22Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
Romans 3:25Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; set forth: or, foreordained remission: or, passing over
Romans 3:26To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
Romans 4:3For what saith the scripture?1161 Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.
Romans 4:5But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
Romans 4:6Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,
Romans 4:9Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.
Romans 4:11And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also:
Romans 4:13For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
Romans 4:22And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.
Romans 5:17For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.) by one man's: or, by one offence
Romans 5:21That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans 6:13Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. instruments: Gr. arms, or, weapons
Romans 6:16Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
Romans 6:18Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
Romans 6:19I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.
Romans 6:20For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness. from: Gr. to righteousness
Romans 8:10And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
Romans 9:28For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth. the work: or, the account
Romans 9:30What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.
Romans 9:31But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.
Romans 10:3For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
Romans 10:4For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
Romans 10:5For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them.
Romans 10:6But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above:)
Romans 10:10For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Romans 14:17For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.
1 Corinthians1 verse
2 Corinthians7 verses
For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
2 Corinthians 5:21For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
2 Corinthians 6:7By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
2 Corinthians 6:14Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
2 Corinthians 9:9(As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the poor: his righteousness remaineth for ever.
2 Corinthians 9:10Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;)
2 Corinthians 11:15Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
Galatians4 verses
I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
Galatians 3:6Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. accounted: or, imputed
Galatians 3:21Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.
Galatians 5:5For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.
Ephesians3 verses
And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. true: or, holiness of truth
Ephesians 5:9(For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)
Ephesians 6:14Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
Philippians3 verses
Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
Philippians 3:6Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law blameless.
Philippians 3:9And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
1 Timothy1 verse
2 Timothy3 verses
Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
2 Timothy 3:16All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
2 Timothy 4:8Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.
Hebrews6 verses
Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
Hebrews 5:13For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. is unskillful: Gr. hath no experience
Hebrews 7:2To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem, which is, King of peace;
Hebrews 11:7By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith. moved: or, being wary
Hebrews 11:33Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
Hebrews 12:11Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
James3 verses
For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
James 2:23And the scripture was fulfilled which saith Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.
James 3:18And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
1 Peter2 verses
Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed. on: or, to
1 Peter 3:14But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;
2 Peter4 verses
Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ: Simon: or, Symeon God: Gr. of our God and Saviour
2 Peter 2:5And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
2 Peter 2:21For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
2 Peter 3:13Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
1 John3 verses
If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him. ye know that every: or, know ye
1 John 3:7Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
1 John 3:10In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
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Frequently asked questions
What does Strong's G1343 (dikaiosune) mean?
from 1342; equity (of character or act); specially (Christian) justification:--righteousness.
How many times does G1343 appear in the Bible?
Strong's G1343 (δικαιοσύνη) appears in 84 verses of the King James Version, most often translated “righteousness.”
How is dikaiosune translated in the KJV?
In the KJV, Strong's G1343 is rendered as “righteousness” (89×), “sake” (2×).
Where does the Greek word δικαιοσύνη come from?
from 1342