After last weekâs column, I received a request to write about righteousness. Righteousness is an important attribute for some major religions including Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The dictionary definition of righteous is to be morally correct and just. A review of the righteousness of God and righteous human behavior will provide a better understanding of the word. One way to think about the righteousness of God is to consider it as a deeper spiritual belief held by many Christians as presented in 2 Corinthians 5:21. âGod made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.â A more detailed explanation is recorded in Romans 3:21-26. âBut now apart from the law the righteousness of God has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement, through the shedding of his blood â to be received by faith. He did this to demonstrate his righteousness, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished â he did it to demonstrate his righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.â