or as most scholars of Scripture agree:
"Righteousness is conformity to law, especially to the law, mind and will of YHWH, which is the norm of righteousness."
In Deutoronomy_6:25 we read
that righteousness requires of us:
"To guard to do all these commands before יהוה Elohim, as He commanded us."
In Psalms_119:172 the Psalmist says,
"For all Your commands are righteousness."
In Isaiah_51:7 we read,
"Listen to Me, you who know righteousness, you people in whose heart is My Torah."
However before we start doing righteousness (the commands) we first need to be "declared right" by belief.
We first need to have our sins forgiven, we first need to come to belief, to come into a covenant relationship with the Most High through His Son יהושע.
On this point Sha’ul repeatedly spoke in Romans chapters 3, 4 and 5. In his day many Yehuḏim thought that because they were the descendants of Aḇraham, and were trying to keep the law their way, that they were right or righteous.
No! They were putting the cart before the horse.
We first need to believe and accept יהושע and His forgiveness, and then only does it become our privilege,
and duty, to obey יהושע, as He commands us:
Go and sin no more!
And how do we KNOW what is sin and what is NOT?
HIS TORAH!
If we SHEMA(Hear AND Obey), then we shall be righteous,
and we SHALL be perfect in all His ways, as He said in Matthew 5:48:
"Therefore, be perfect, as your Father in the heavens is perfect."
Let us seek to be perfect, righteous in all HIS ways, NOT our ways!
SHEMA YISRA'EL, YHWH ELOHIM,
YHWH ECHAD!!
Shalom!
Christian Montanez Dodd
Servant and Emmisary of Messiah Yahshua,
Child of YHWH
HalleluYAH!!