Biblical references to the word “justice” mean “to make right.” Justice is, first and foremost, a relational term — people living in right relationship with God, one another, and the natural creation. As God is just and loving, so we are called to do justice and live in love.

Justice, in its broadest sense, is the principle that people receive that which they deserve, with the interpretation of what then constitutes “deserving” being impacted upon by numerous fields, with many differing viewpoints and perspectives, including the concepts of moral correctness based on ethics, rationality.

Justice, unlike law, has normative power. If doing something is just, then we ought to do it. You might say that judges will often apply the law even when the law is unjust, and therefore it follows that law is more important to the judge than justice.

is that justice is the state or characteristic of being just or fair while righteousness is (uncountable) the quality or state of being righteous; holiness; purity; uprightness; rectitude righteousness, as used in scripture and theology, in which it chiefly occurs, is nearly equivalent to holiness, comprehending holy …

Justice is making things right that are unfair in society; righteousness is doing right by people, especially the vulnerable. Justice is more about legal and systemic problems; righteousness is more about good deeds, acts of generosity toward those in need.

This righteousness “is a righteousness that we receive from God.” A person is righteous coram deo, that is, he is in a right relationship with God, when he simply receives the imputed obedience of Christ and the forgiveness of sins through faith. Through faith man is married to Christ.

To be justified (or declared righteous) by the Law is to seek to be righteous before God by keeping the Law of Moses. In other words, it is to be righteous by works. And the Bible says that no man can be justified before God by works. The other way, which is the only way, to be justified by God is by faith.

What does the Bible implicitly warn on fornication? Defined as the sin of pre-marital sex, fornication includes all cohabitation outside the bonds of marriage. Another definition takes it as the sexual intercourse involved in prostitution, while a broader sense includes all forms of adultery.

John 7:24 KJVS [24] Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment. The Bible says when we judge ourselves and our neighbors our judgment must be in righteousness. Not what I heard from someone else about that person or what I think, but rather moral truth.

In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.

Self-righteousness, also called sanctimoniousness, sententiousness and holier-than-thou attitudes is a feeling or display of (usually smug) moral superiority derived from a sense that one’s beliefs, actions, or affiliations are of greater virtue than those of the average person.