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Unrighteousness
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Unrighteousness, in biblical terms, refers to the state or quality of being morally wrong or unjust. It is the opposite of righteousness, which is conformity to God's will and character. Unrighteousness is a key concept in Scripture, highlighting the moral and spiritual failings of humanity and the need for divine redemption.

Old Testament Context

In the Old Testament, unrighteousness is often associated with injustice, idolatry, and disobedience to God's commandments. The Hebrew word often translated as "unrighteousness" is "עָוֶל" (avel), which can also mean iniquity or injustice. The prophets frequently condemned the unrighteousness of Israel and the surrounding nations. For example, inEzekiel 18:24 , it is written, "But if a righteous man turns from his righteousness and practices iniquity, committing the same abominations as the wicked, will he live? None of the righteous acts he did will be remembered. Because of the unfaithfulness and sin he has committed, he will die."

New Testament Context

In the New Testament, unrighteousness is further expounded upon, particularly in the writings of the Apostle Paul. The Greek word "ἀδικία" (adikia) is commonly used, which encompasses a broad range of moral failings.Romans 1:18 states, "The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness." Here, unrighteousness is linked to the suppression of truth and the rejection of God's revelation.

Paul also contrasts unrighteousness with the righteousness that comes through faith in Jesus Christ. InRomans 3:10-12 , he quotes the Psalms, saying, "There is no one righteous, not even one; there is no one who understands, no one who seeks God. All have turned away; they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one." This underscores the universal nature of unrighteousness and the need for salvation through Christ.

Theological Implications

Unrighteousness is not merely a set of actions but a condition of the heart. It reflects humanity's fallen nature and separation from God. The Bible teaches that all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23), and that the wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23). However, through Jesus Christ, believers are offered forgiveness and the imputation of His righteousness.

Practical Considerations

Believers are called to live in righteousness, turning away from unrighteousness and pursuing holiness. In 1John 1:9 , it is written, "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." This verse emphasizes the importance of confession and repentance in the Christian life.

Furthermore, Christians are encouraged to be discerning and to avoid partnerships with unrighteousness.2 Corinthians 6:14 advises, "Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?"

Conclusion

Unrighteousness is a pervasive theme in Scripture, highlighting the moral failings of humanity and the need for divine intervention. Through faith in Jesus Christ, believers are called to reject unrighteousness and to live in accordance with God's righteous standards.
Greek
93. adikia -- injustice,unrighteousness
... injustice,unrighteousness. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: adikia
Phonetic Spelling: (ad-ee-kee'-ah) Short Definition:unrighteousness...

458. anomia -- lawlessness
... Word Origin from anomos Definition lawlessness NASB Word Usage lawless deed (1),
lawless deeds (2), lawlessness (12). iniquity, transgression,unrighteousness....

91. adikeo -- to do wrong, act wickedly
... Cognate: 91 (from 93 , "unrighteousness") -- properly, doing (), especially to inflict
undeserved hurt by -- ie acting contrary to what is . See 93 ()....

92. adikema -- a wrong, injury
... Cognate: 92 (a neuter noun derived from 93 , "unrighteousness") -- ; a violation
of with emphasis on its (note the suffix) -- ie wrongdoing as it brings ....

Strong's Hebrew
5766. evel -- injustice,unrighteousness
... injustice,unrighteousness. Transliteration: evel or avel or avlah or olah or
olah Phonetic Spelling: (eh'-vel) Short Definition: iniquity....

5767b. avlah -- injustice,unrighteousness, wrong
... 5767a, 5767b. avlah. 5768 . injustice,unrighteousness, wrong. Transliteration:
avlah Short Definition:unrighteousness. Word Origin...

Library

OurUnrighteousness.
... Second Chapter THE SINNER TO BE WROUGHT UPON. XV. OurUnrighteousness.
"My Spirit shall not always strive with man.""Genesis 6:3....

Righteousness andUnrighteousness.
... Chapter XIV."Righteousness andUnrighteousness.... But if righteousness can be found
nowhere, neither in God nor in man, then neither canunrighteousness....

On the Words of the Gospel, Luke xvi. 9, "Make to Yourselves...
... Sermon LXIII. On the words of the Gospel, Luke xvi. 9, "Make to yourselves friends
by means of the mammon ofunrighteousness," etc. [CXIII. Ben.]...

"If we Confess Our Sins, He is Faithful and Just to Forgive us Our...
... Sermon XIX. "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive
us our sins, and to cleanse us from allunrighteousness....

There is Therefore "No Fellowship Between Righteousness and...
... Book IV. Chapter 13. " 20. There is therefore "no fellowship between
righteousness andunrighteousness? "20. There is therefore...

Rom. I. 18
... I. 18. Rom. I.18 "For the wrath of God is revealed from Heaven against all ungodliness
andunrighteousness of men, who hold down the truth inunrighteousness."....

On the Words of the Gospel, John xiv. 6, "I am the Way, and the...
... 4190] These are, as ye recognise, the words of the Apostle Paul; "The wrath of God
is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness, andunrighteousness of men...

Several Other Things Turned against the Same Mathematicians.
... And if the righteous be better than the unrighteous, andunrighteousness be abominable
to them, God, being righteous, rejoices in righteousness, and...

Conclusion
... even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan, with all power and signs and
lying wonders, and with all deceivableness ofunrighteousness in them that...

Psalm XXXII.
... 2. "Blessed are they whoseunrighteousness is forgiven, and whose sins are
covered" (ver.1): and whose sins are buried in oblivion....

Thesaurus
Unrighteousness (57 Occurrences)
...Unrighteousness (57 Occurrences).... For you clean the outside of the cup and of the
platter, but within they are full of extortion andunrighteousness. (WEB)....

Unrighteous (32 Occurrences)
... Romans 3:5 But if ourunrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will
we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak like men do....

Wrath (503 Occurrences)
... according to his works:.... to them that.... obey not the truth, but obey
unrighteousness,.... wrath and indignation, tribulation...

Wickedness (232 Occurrences)
... Romans 1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness
andunrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth inunrighteousness, (See...

Deceit (160 Occurrences)
... Romans 1:29 being filled with allunrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness,
covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits...

Ungodliness (9 Occurrences)
... Romans 1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness
andunrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth inunrighteousness, (WEB...

Godlessness (3 Occurrences)
... Romans 1:18 for revealed is the wrath of God from heaven upon all impiety and
unrighteousness of men, holding down the truth inunrighteousness. (See NIV)....

Ignorance (27 Occurrences)
... Paul in Romans 1:18, 32 attributes the pre-Christian ignorance of God to "the
ungodliness andunrighteousness of men, who hinder the truth inunrighteousness...

True (305 Occurrences)
... 18 He who is speaking from himself his own glory doth seek, but he who is seeking
the glory of him who sent him, this one is true , andunrighteousness is not...

Suppress (1 Occurrence)
... Romans 1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness
andunrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth inunrighteousness, (WEB...

Resources
What is truth? | GotQuestions.org

What does it mean that God is truth? | GotQuestions.org

In regards to forgiveness, is there a difference between willful sin and ignorant sin? | GotQuestions.org

Unrighteousness: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.com

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Unrighteousness (57 Occurrences)

Matthew 20:13
And he answering said to one of them, Comrade, I do nounrighteousness to thee; for a denary didst not thou agree with me?
(YLT)

Matthew 23:25
"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion andunrighteousness.
(WEB)

Luke 13:27
and he shall say, I say to you, I have not known you whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of theunrighteousness.
(YLT)

Luke 16:9
And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon ofunrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.
(KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)

John 7:18
He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and nounrighteousness is in him.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Acts 1:18
this one, indeed, then, purchased a field out of the reward ofunrighteousness, and falling headlong, burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed forth,
(YLT)

Acts 8:23
For I perceive that you have fallen into the bitterest bondage ofunrighteousness."
(WEY DBY YLT)

Acts 24:20
or let these same say if they found anyunrighteousness in me in my standing before the sanhedrim,
(YLT)

Acts 25:10
and Paul said, 'At the tribunal of Caesar I am standing, where it behoveth me to be judged; to Jews I did nounrighteousness, as thou dost also very well know;
(YLT)

Romans 1:18
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness andunrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Romans 1:29
being filled with allunrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Romans 2:8
but to those who are self-seeking, and don't obey the truth, but obeyunrighteousness, will be wrath and indignation,
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Romans 3:5
But if ourunrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak like men do.
(WEB KJV WEY DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)

Romans 6:13
Neither present your members to sin as instruments ofunrighteousness, but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Romans 9:14
What shall we say then? Is thereunrighteousness with God? May it never be!
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT)

1 Corinthians 13:6
doesn't rejoice inunrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
(WEB ASV YLT NAS)

2 Corinthians 6:14
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness withunrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
(KJV WBS)

2 Thessalonians 2:10
And with all deceivableness ofunrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
(KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT)

2 Thessalonians 2:12
that they all might be judged who didn't believe the truth, but had pleasure inunrighteousness.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

2 Timothy 2:19
However God's firm foundation stands, having this seal, "The Lord knows those who are his," and, "Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart fromunrighteousness."
(WEB ASV YLT)

Hebrews 8:12
For I will be merciful to theirunrighteousness. I will remember their sins and lawless deeds no more."
(WEB KJV DBY WBS YLT)

James 3:6
and the tongue is fire, the world ofunrighteousness; the tongue is set in our members, the defiler of the whole body, and which sets fire to the course of nature, and is set on fire of hell.
(DBY YLT)

2 Peter 2:13
receiving the wages ofunrighteousness; people who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and blemishes, reveling in their deceit while they feast with you;
(WEB KJV DBY WBS YLT)

2 Peter 2:15
Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages ofunrighteousness;
(KJV WEY DBY WBS YLT NAS)

1 John 1:9
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from allunrighteousness.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 John 5:17
Allunrighteousness is sin, and there is a sin not leading to death.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Revelation 18:5
for her sins have been heaped on one another up to the heaven, and God has remembered her unrighteousnesses.
(Root in DBY YLT)

Revelation 22:11
He that is unrighteous, let him dounrighteousness still: and he that is filthy, let him be made filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him do righteousness still: and he that is holy, let him be made holy still.
(ASV)

Leviticus 19:15
Ye shall do nounrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbor.
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)

Leviticus 19:35
"'You shall do nounrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)

Deuteronomy 25:16
For every one that doeth such things, every one that doethunrighteousness, is an abomination to Jehovah thy God.
(DBY)

2 Chronicles 19:7
Now therefore let the fear of Yahweh be on you; take heed and do it: for there is no iniquity with Yahweh our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes.
(See NAS)

Job 5:16
So the poor hath what he hopeth for, andunrighteousness stoppeth her mouth.
(DBY NAS)

Job 11:14
If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away. Don't letunrighteousness dwell in your tents.
(WEB JPS ASV)

Job 15:16
How much less the abominable and corrupt, man, that drinkethunrighteousness like water!
(DBY)

Job 22:23
If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up, if you put awayunrighteousness far from your tents.
(WEB JPS ASV DBY NAS RSV)

Job 24:20
The womb shall forget him. The worm shall feed sweetly on him. He shall be no more remembered.Unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree.
(WEB JPS ASV DBY)

Job 27:4
surely my lips shall not speakunrighteousness, neither shall my tongue utter deceit.
(WEB JPS ASV DBY)

Job 36:23
Who has prescribed his way for him? Or who can say,'You have committedunrighteousness?'
(WEB JPS ASV DBY)

Psalms 37:1
By David. Don't fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who workunrighteousness.
(WEB JPS ASV DBY)

Psalms 58:2
No, in your heart you plot injustice. You measure out the violence of your hands in the earth.
(See NAS)

Psalms 92:15
to show that Yahweh is upright. He is my rock, and there is nounrighteousness in him.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Psalms 107:42
The upright shall see it, and rejoice; and allunrighteousness shall stop its mouth.
(DBY NAS)

Psalms 119:3
Yea, they do no unrighteousness; They walk in his ways.
(See JPS ASV DBY NAS)

Proverbs 22:8
He that sowethunrighteousness shall reap iniquity, and the rod of his wrath shall have an end.
(DBY)

Isaiah 59:3
For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips speak lies, your tongue mutterethunrighteousness:
(DBY)

Jeremiah 2:5
Thus says Yahweh, Whatunrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?
(WEB JPS ASV)

Jeremiah 22:13
Woe to him who builds his house byunrighteousness, and his chambers by injustice; who uses his neighbor's service without wages, and doesn't give him his hire;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 18:8
he hath not given forth upon usury, nor taken increase; he hath withdrawn his hand fromunrighteousness, hath executed true judgment between man and man,
(DBY)

Ezekiel 28:15
You were perfect in your ways from the day that you were created, untilunrighteousness was found in you.
(WEB JPS ASV DBY NAS)

Ezekiel 28:18
By the multitude of your iniquities, in theunrighteousness of your traffic, you have profaned your sanctuaries; therefore have I brought forth a fire from the midst of you; it has devoured you, and I have turned you to ashes on the earth in the sight of all those who see you.
(WEB JPS ASV DBY NAS RSV)

Ezekiel 33:13
When I say to the righteous that he shall certainly live, and he trusteth to his righteousness and doeth what is wrong, none of his righteous acts shall be remembered; but in hisunrighteousness which he hath done, in it shall he die.
(DBY)

Micah 3:10
that build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem withunrighteousness.
(DBY)

Habakkuk 2:12
Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and establisheth a city byunrighteousness!
(DBY)

Zephaniah 3:5
Jehovah in the midst of her is righteous; he will not do iniquity; every morning doth he bring his justice to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame.
(See JPS)

Zephaniah 3:13
The remnant of Israel shall not workunrighteousness, nor speak lies; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: but they shall feed and lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
(DBY)

Malachi 2:6
The law of truth was in his mouth, andunrighteousness was not found in his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and turned many away from iniquity.
(WEB JPS ASV DBY NAS)

Subtopics

Unrighteousness

Related Terms

Unrighteousness (57 Occurrences)

Unripe (6 Occurrences)

Lawlessnesses (3 Occurrences)

Heaped (11 Occurrences)

Unrighteously
Unrighteousnesses
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