Everything is wearisome beyond description. No matter how much we see, we are never satisfied. No matter how much we hear, we are not content.
Ecclesiastes 1:8

Whoever loves money never has enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with their income.
Ecclesiastes 5:10a

This is the case of a man who is all alone, without a child or a brother, yet who works hard to gain as much wealth as he can. But then he asks himself, “Who am I working for? Why am I giving up so much pleasure now?” It is all so meaningless and depressing.
Ecclesiastes 4:8

Everyone’s toil is for their mouth, yet their appetite is never satisfied.
Ecclesiastes 6:7

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.
Matthew 5:6

He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.
Micah 6:8

³⁷ Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ ³⁸ This is the first and greatest commandment. ³⁹ And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ ⁴⁰ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
Matthew 22:37-40

“Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them. ²⁴ Anyone who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.”
John 14:23,24

• Righteousness is loving

, loving

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, and

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the teaching of Jesus.

3 Truths about Righteousness

1) Righteousness is a

before it is a practice.

We are all infected and impure with sin. When we display our righteous deeds, they are nothing but filthy rags. Like autumn leaves, we wither and fall, and our sins sweep us away like the wind.
Isaiah 64:6

God made him (Jesus) who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
2 Corinthians 5:21

2) Righteousness works from the

out.

²⁵ “What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you are so careful to clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside you are filthy—full of greed and self-indulgence! ²⁶ You blind Pharisee! First wash the inside of the cup and the dish, and then the outside will become clean, too.
Matthew 23:25,26

Your words were found, and I ate them, and your words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart…
Jeremiah 15:16

“If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them.”
James 4:17

3) Righteousness is always

and always being

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.

Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.
John 6:35