“…Now this is His name by which He will be called:
The LORD our righteousness.”  Jeremiah 23:6

Chapter 11 of Isaiah speaks of the righteous reign of the Branch from Jesse’s root who is Christ.  Read verses 2-5 for the prophecy of this Branch. Verse 5 speaks of His righteousness and faithfulness, let’s look into what Scripture  tells us here.
“Righteousness shall be the belt of His loins,
And faithfulness the belt of His waist.”  Vs. 5

“Righteous are You, O LORD,
And upright are Your judgments.
Your testimonies, which You have commanded,
Are righteous and very faithful.”  Psalm 119:137-138

“The LORD is righteous in all His ways,
Gracious in all His works.”  Psalm 145:17

CHRIST IS THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS!

This being so we as His people are to be righteous as we see in the following verses of Scripture:
In Jesus Sermon on the Mount teaching,
“For I say to you, unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you well by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.”  Matthew 5:20

“…put on the new man which was created according to God, in righteousness and true holiness.”  Ephesians 4:24 

“Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness.”  Ephesians 6:14

The Apostle John assures us,
“If you know that He is riighteousness, you know that everyone who practices righteousness is born of Him.”  1 John 2:29

We have the Apostle Paul’s prayer in Philippians 1:9-11,
“And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment,
that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense till the day of Christ,
being filled with the fruits of righteousness which are by Christ Jesus, to the glory and praise of God.”

Paul also tells us in 1 Timothy 6:11-12,
“But you O man of God (Women too)…pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, gentleness.  
Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you have been called…”  (My insert.)

I close with Paul’s admonition to Timothy, to all Believers, in the same chapter,
“O Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you, avoid worldly and empty chatter and opposing arguments of what is called knowledge -- which some have professed and thus gone astray from the faith.”  1 Timothy 6:20-21

In this day of massive amounts of knowledge put forth each day, let us heed Paul’s warning.  We, therefore, need to keep our eyes on Jesus and be led by the Holy Spirit into all truth!
“But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God--and righteousness and sanctification and redemption--
That it is written ‘He who glories, let him glory in the LORD.”  
1 Corinthians 1:30-31  

Beloved of God, our righteousness is in Christ.  So we sing:
“I am covered over with the robe of righteousness
That Jesus gives to me. Is to me.
I am covered over with the precious Blood of Jesus
For He lives in me. Lives in me.
What a joy it is to know my Heavenly Father loves me so
He gives to me My Jesus.
When He looks at me He sees not what I used to be, but He sees Jesus.’

All praise, honor and glory to Him forever!  Amen