FOUNDATIONS

What Is Righteousness?

The word “righteousness” is often used in Scripture, but many believers today struggle to define it.

Is righteousness simply being a good person?
Is it an idea?
A feeling?
A religious status?

The Bible gives a very clear answer.

📖 Genesis 18:19

Speaking of Abraham, Yahuah said:

“For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of YAHUAH, to do justice and judgment…”

Righteousness is connected with walking in the way of Yahuah and teaching that way to the next generation. For Abraham obeyed His voice and kept His commandments, statutes, and laws (Gen. 26:5).

It is not private belief alone.
It is a life lived according to His ways.

📖 Deuteronomy 6:25

Scripture defines it even more directly:

“And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before YAHUAH our Elohim, as he hath commanded us.”

Biblically speaking, righteousness is not a vague concept.

It is living according to the commandments of Elohim.

📖 Psalm 119

The longest chapter in Scripture repeats the same truth again and again:

• Your law is truth
• Your commandments are righteous
• Your statutes lead to life

Psalm 119 teaches that the Word of Yah is the standard of righteousness. It never teaches His law as bondage!

📖 Matthew 5

Messiah confirmed the same foundation.

In the Sermon on the Mount He taught:

“Except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.”

Yahusha did not abolish righteousness.

Pharisees did and they are defined as the benchmark, generally, for not saved because their manner is not righteousness.
He called His followers to live it from the heart.

🌿 The Foundation

True righteousness is:

• Knowing the ways of Yah
• Walking in His commandments
• Loving His truth
• Living it from the heart

It is not religion.

It is relationship expressed through obedience.

📖 This Week’s Reading

Take time to read and meditate on:

• Genesis 18:19
• Deuteronomy 6:25
• Psalm 119
• Matthew 5

Let Scripture define righteousness.

🌿 Foundations Series – Week 10

Because truth must be built on the right foundation.

Yah Bless.

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