Righteousness

haki is the established term but is also the everyday word for ‘justice’ and ‘a right’ (haki za binadamu, ‘human rights’), a broader civic sense than Romans’ theological sense of right standing before God received by faith. uadilifu (moral uprightness/integrity) is close but emphasizes achieved character rather than a status received; haki remains the correct choice but requires context to keep the theological sense from collapsing into the civic-justice sense.