Sentences with phrase «declared righteous»

Those who use the term easy believism are confusing justificationâ $» the one - time act of being declared righteous by Godâ $» with sanctificationâ $» the lifelong process by which the justified believer is conformed to the image of Christ.

Our spirit, the part of us that is transformed and declared righteous when we receive God's gift of salvation, desires to do what is right.

But YOU have been washed clean, but YOU have been sanctified, but YOU have been declared righteous in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and with the spirit of our God.

whatwhat, 1) James has already stated that salvation is a gracious gift (James 1:17 - 18) See also: 1 Peter 1:3 2) James quotes Genesis 15:6 which claims that God credited righteousness to Abraham solely on the basis of his faith (James 2:23) 3) The «works» that James said justified Abraham was his offering up of Isaac (Genesis 22:9, 12), an event that occurred many years after he first exercised faith and was declared righteous before God (Genesis 12:1 - 7, Genesis 15:6).

Genesis 15:6 teaches that Abram was justified, he was declared righteous by God simply because he believed what God had said.

Thus the Law covenant, upon which Judaism is built, was only a «tutor leading to Christ, that we might be declared righteous due to faith» (Gal 3:24), and not «by works of law» in which «no flesh will be declared righteous.»

Romans 3:20 Therefore no one will be declared righteous in God's sight by the works of the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of our sin.

Those He declared righteous, He also will glorify.

Abraham was justified, or declared righteous by God in Genesis 15, but then he was also justified, or declared righteous again in Genesis 22.

Paul explained the gospel so clearly the person he was explaining it to said, «Well if I can be declared righteous simply by faith in Christ with no works at all, why can't I just sin all I want?»

All Christian theologians teach that we are declared righteous for the sake of Christ.

The notion that Christians are declared righteous for the sake of Christ has been a central part of Lutheran theology and most Protestant theology.

We are declared righteous for Jesus» sake.

1) James has already stated that salvation is a gracious gift (James 1:17 - 18) See also: 1 Peter 1:3 2) James quotes Genesis 15:6 which claims that God credited righteousness to Abraham solely on the basis of his faith (James 2:23) 3) The «works» that James said justified Abraham was his offering up of Isaac (Genesis 22:9, 12), an event that occurred many years after he first exercised faith and was declared righteous before God (Genesis 12:1 - 7, Genesis 15:6).

25 In the same manner was not also Ra ′ hab the harlot declared righteous by works, after she had received the messengers hospitably and sent them out by another way?

To love and forgive a wicked, rebellious, wayward, wretched sinner, or to continue forgiving somebody who has been declared righteous by God and who has been identified with Jesus Christ in His death and resurrection?

«It is not those who hear the law who are righteous in God's sight, but it is those who obey the law who will be declared righteous.»

13For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous in God's sight, but it is those who obey the law who will be declared righteous.

We would then choose to remain seperated from God, because it is only through Christ that we are declared righteous.

Whenever Paul refers to the faith of Abraham, he is referring to Genesis 15, when Abram was declared righteous by God.

For me being a Christian is being declared righteous for Jesus» sake.

God has met our wilfullness with a will of His own, His determination to have mercy on us, declaring us righteous before Him as gift, for the sake of Christ.

The word justified means «to declare righteous.»

When a person responds to the gospel in faith, God regenerates them to new life, calls them to a specific purpose, and declares them righteous in His sight.

Not exact matches

These Hypocritical self - important Christian types need to leave politics and do what they do best... read and promote fairy tales, declaring themselves the most righteous, while they molest children and spread their religious views through fear.

Prior to Christ the only people who were righteous, were those who God declared as righteous.

That is, justification is to be declared or considered righteous by God.

The seven controverted areas taken up by the declaration are 1) sin and human passivity in receiving justification; 2) interior renewal, that is, the way God not only declares persons justified but also makes them righteous, independent of human cooperation; 3) justification by faith alone; 4) the justified person as sinner; 5) law and gospel; 6) the assurance of salvation; and 7) the good works of the justified person.

This not only paints a vivid picture of a righteous man being unjustly put to death, but it declares it to be all part of a divine plan, for the man suffers vicariously for the sins of others.

Here in the States, when someone declares himself to be a «Christian'the image that comes to mind is racist, ignorant, narrow - minded, anti-science and self - righteous.

It's the good news that God has declared sinners righteous solely on the basis of the work of Christ, a declaration that sinners receive by resting on Christ alone for salvation.

Take away the Devil and we are left with the Protestant citadel, the «better self,» the conscience, which thus becomes the site of the Last Judgment, where the believer, confronted with the laws of God, acknowledges that he is a sinner and declares himself at the same time to be righteous by virtue of Christ's sacrifice.

But that man is still a sinner and is only righteous because God has juridically declared him to be so.

However, referring to theology, justified is something either declared or made righteous in the sight of God.