Tsadiq means straight, righteous, justified, vindicated.
Mat 5:6 Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after righteousness! For they shall be filled.
Mat 6:33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
How do we know what His righteousness is? We find it in His Word.
2Ti 3:16 All Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness,
2Ti 3:17 so that the man of God may be perfected, being fully furnished for every good work.
The Lord is our Righteousness
Jer 23:5 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.
Jer 23:6 In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
Isa 45:22 Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.
Isa 45:23 I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.
Isa 45:24 Surely, shall one say, in the LORD have I righteousness and strength: even to him shall men come; and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed.
Isa 45:25 In the LORD shall all the seed of Israel be justified (tsadaq), and shall glory.
Isa 54:17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.
God’s Righteousness is His Torah
Psa 119:7 I will thank You with integrity of heart, in my learning the judgments of Your righteousness.
Psa 119:138 Thy testimonies that thou hast commanded are righteous and very faithful.
Psa 119:172 My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments are righteousness.
TORAH
Deu 6:24 And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is at this day.
Deu 6:25 And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the LORD our God, as he hath commanded us.
Psa 103:17 But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children’s children;
Psa 103:18 To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them.
Isa 51:7 Hear Me, those knowing righteousness, the people of My Law in their heart; do not fear the reproach of man, and do not be bowed from their blasphemings.
Luk 1:6 And they were both righteous before God, walking blameless in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.
2Pe 2:21 For it was better for them not to have recognized the way of righteousness than having recognized it to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them.
Lawlessness is the antithesis of righteousness
2Co 6:14 Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership does righteousness have with lawlessness? And what fellowship does light have with darkness?
Heb 1:9 You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness; because of this God, Your God, has anointed You with the oil of gladness beside Your fellows.” Psa. 45:6, 7
Fruit of the Spirit
Eph 5:6 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for through these things the wrath of God comes on the sons of disobedience.
Eph 5:7 Then do not become partakers with them;
Eph 5:8 for you then were darkness, but are now light click here
in the Lord; walk as children of light.
Eph 5:9 For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truthclick here
Eph 5:10 proving what is pleasing to the Lord.
Php 1:9 And this I pray, that your love may yet abound more and more in full knowledge and all perception,
Php 1:10 for you to distinguish the things that differ, that you may be sincere and without blame for the day of Christ,
Php 1:11 being filled with fruits of righteousness through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
2Ti 2:22 But flee youthful lusts and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with the ones calling on the Lord out of a pure heart.
1Jn 2:1 My little children, I write these things to you so that you do not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.
His body is clothed in garments of righteousness
Isa 61:10 I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation (yeshua), he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.
Rom 13:14 But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
Gal 3:27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
Psa 71:15 My mouth shall tell of Your righteousness and Your salvation (yeshua) all the day; for I do not know the numbers.
Psa 71:16 I will come in the strength of the Lord Jehovah; I will speak of Your righteousness, of Yours alone.
Rom 10:4 For Christ is the end {goal} of Law for righteousness to everyone that believes.
1Jn 2:29 If you know that He is righteous, know that everyone doing righteousness has been generated from Him.
Eph 4:24 and to put on the new man, which according to God was created in righteousness and true holiness.
Eph 4:25 Therefore, putting off the false, “speak truth each with his neighbor,” because we are members of one another. Zech. 8:16
There are none righteous without Christ Jesus
Rom 3:10 according as it has been written, “There is not a righteous one, not even one!”
Php 3:9 and be found in Him; not having my own righteousness of Law, but through the faith of Christ, having the righteousness of God on faith,
Php 3:10 to know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, having been conformed to His death,
Php 3:11 if somehow I may attain to a resurrection out of the dead.
Rom 5:19 For as through the one man’s disobedience the many were constituted sinners, so also through the obedience of the One the many shall be constituted righteous.
1Pe 2:24 who “Himself carried up in His body our sins” onto the tree; that dying to sins, we might live to righteousness, of whom “by His wound you were healed.”
1Pe 2:25 For you were “as sheep going astray,” but now you turned back to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls. Isa. 53:4-6
WE ARE MADE RIGHTEOUS IN HIM
2Co 5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
Rev 7:13 And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they?
Rev 7:14 And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
Rev 19:7 Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.
Rev 19:8 And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.
HOW DO WE MAKE OURSELVES READY?
Eph 5:26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
Eph 5:27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
We are sanctified by the truth
Joh 17:17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
Being clean and sanctified = being made righteous
1Co 6:11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctifiedclick here, but ye are justified (tsadaq) in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
Tit 2:13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
Tit 2:14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people*, zealous of good works.
*His priesthood, clothed in the garments of Yeshua/His righteousness
Psa 132:16 And I will clothe her priests with salvation; and her saints shall surely shout.
Isa 61:10 I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation (yeshua), he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.
Rom 13:14 But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
Gal 3:27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
Isa 60:21 And your people shall all be righteous; they shall possess the earth forever, a branch of My planting, a work of My hands, to beautify Myself.
Justification = Righteousness
Isa 45:24 He shall say, Only in Jehovah do I have righteousness (tsedeqah) and strength; to Him he comes; and they are ashamed, all who are angry with Him.
Isa 45:25 In Jehovah all of the seed of Israel shall be justified (tsadaq), and shall glory.
We are justified through Messiah Jesus by His grace.
Tit 3:7 that being justified by His grace, we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
Only through Messiah
We can’t be justified/made righteous by our obedience of Torah. All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. It is only through the forgiveness through Messiah that we can be made justified before the Lord. The Torah is righteousness, not our attempts to keep it. It is only when Messiah Jesus (the living Torah) lives through us that we can be righteous for we then become living epistles in His image.
Act 13:38 Then let it be known to you, men, brothers, that through this One remission of sin is announced to you.
Act 13:39 And everyone believing in this One is justified from all things which you could not be justified by the Law of Moses.
Gal 5:4 you whoever are justified by Law, you were severed from Christ; you fell from grace.
Gal 5:5 For we through the Spirit eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness out of faith.
Gal 2:16 knowing that a man is not justified by works of Law, but that it is through faith in Jesus Christ (we also believed into Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of Law, because all flesh will not be justified by works of Law). Psa. 123:2
1Co 6:11 And some of you were these things, but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.
Rom 8:28 But we know that to the ones loving God all things work together for good, to those being called according to purpose;
Rom 8:29 because whom He foreknew, He also predestinated to be conformed to the image of His Son, for Him to be the First-born among many brothers.
Rom 8:30 But whom He predestinated, these He also called; and whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.
Rom 5:9 Much more then, being justified now by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath through Him.
Rom 3:19 But we know that whatever the Law says, it speaks to those within the Law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world be under judgment to God.
Rom 3:20 Because by works of Law not one of all flesh will be justified before Him, for through Law is full knowledge of sin. Psa. 143:2
Rom 3:21 But now a righteousness of God has been revealed apart from Law, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets,
Rom 3:22 even the righteousness of God through faith of Jesus Christ toward all and upon all those believing; for there is no difference,
Rom 3:23 for all sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Rom 3:24 being justified freely by His grace through the redemption in Christ Jesus,
Rom 3:25 whom God set forth as a propitiation through faith in His blood, as a demonstration of His righteousness through the passing over of the sins that had taken place before, in the forbearance of God,
Rom 3:26 for a demonstration of His righteousness in the present time, for His being just and justifying the one that is of the faith of Jesus.
Rom 3:27 Then where is the boasting? It was excluded. Through what law? Of works? No, but through a Law of faith.
Rom 3:28 Then we conclude a man to be justified by faith without works of Law.
Rom 3:29 Or is He the God of Jews only, and not also of the nations? Yes, of the nations also,
Rom 3:30 since it is one God who will justify circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.
Rom 3:31 Then is the Law annulled through faith? Let it not be! But we establish Law.
Rom 2:13 For not the hearers of the Law are just with God, but the doers of the Law shall be justified.
It is through our works that we show our faith in Messiah
Jas 2:21 Was not our father Abraham justified by works offering up his son Isaac on the altar? Gen. 22:9
Jas 2:22 You see that faith worked with his works; and out of the works the faith was made perfected.
Jas 2:23 And the Scripture was fulfilled, saying, “And Abraham believed God, and it was counted for righteousness to him;” and he was called, Friend of God. Gen. 15:6; Isa. 41:8
Jas 2:24 You see, then, that a man is justified out of works, and not out of faith only.
Jas 2:25 But in the same way Rahab the harlot was also justified out of works, having received the messengers, and sending them out by another way.
The wicked oppose righteousness
Act 13:10 he said, O son of the devil, full of all guile and of all cunning, hostile to all righteousness, will you not stop perverting the right ways of the Lord?
Those who oppose righteousness are sons of the devil. Messiah=righteousness. Torah=righteousness.
1Jn 3:10 By this the children of God and the children of the devil are revealed: Everyone not practicing righteousness is not of God; also the one not loving his brother.
the Judgment
Act 17:31 because He set a day in which “He is going to judge the habitable world in righteousness,” by a Man whom He appointed; having given proof to all by raising Him from the dead. Psa. 9:8
Judged by the Word…Righteousness
Joh 12:48 The one who rejects Me and does not receive My Words has that judging him: the Word which I spoke, that will judge him in the last Day.
Righteousness – Uprightness
Tsedaqah – Yashar
God
Psa 25:8 Good and upright is Jehovah; therefore He will teach sinners in the way.
Psa 19:8 The precepts of Jehovah are right, rejoicing the heart. The commands of Jehovah are pure, giving light to the eyes.
Psa 19:9 The fear of Jehovah is clean, enduring forever. The judgments of Jehovah are true, they are righteous altogether.
TORAH/WORD
Exo 15:26 And He said, If you carefully listen to the voice of Jehovah your God, and do what is right (yashar)in His eyes, and you give ear to His commandments, and keep all His statutes, I will not put on you all the diseases which I have put on Egypt; for I am Jehovah your Healer.
Deu 6:18 And you shall do the right (yashar) thing and the good thing in the eyes of Jehovah, so that it may be well with you, and that you may go in and possess the good land which Jehovah has sworn to your fathers,
Psa 33:4 For the Word of Jehovah is right, and all His works are in truth.
Neh 9:13 And You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from the heavens, and gave them right judgments and true laws, good statutes and commandments.
Psa 36:10 O continue Your mercy to the ones knowing You, and Your righteousness to the upright of heart.
Psa 64:10 The righteous shall rejoice in Jehovah, and shall trust in Him; and all the upright in heart shall glory.
Psa 97:11 Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.
Psa 140:13 Surely the righteous shall give thanks to Your name; the upright shall dwell in Your presence.
Pro 11:5 The righteousness of the perfect shall make his way right, but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
Pro 11:6 The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them, but traitors shall be taken in their lust.
Isa 26:7 The path for the just is uprightness (meyshar). Upright One (yashar), level the track of the just.
Num 23:10 Who can count Jacob’s dust, and the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!
Israel is also known as Jeshuron in the scriptures. Jeshuron comes from this word yashar, meaning the upright/righteous one.
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