Sentences with phrase «even righteous»

Anger alone, even righteous, even (in part) right, doesn't get you very far.

Even a righteous horny - handed, Fabian artisan like him has more dignity than you bunch of namby pamby, middle - class, contrarian, «too cool for school» Generation X'ers.

Believing these excuses, they tell themselves that the mean behavior is acceptable, unavoidable, or even righteous.

Third, Christianity made science a theologically justified and even righteous path to pursue.

Isaiah 64:6 also says that in God's eyes, even our righteous acts are like filthy rags.

I agree that love should be supplemented by action, and even righteous anger, to achieve certain goals.

Bible is full of exapmles of people who did wrong yet remained loved by God and considered faithful and even righteous by God.

Isaiah states that even our righteous acts are as filthy rags (literal interpretation is menstrual rags).

Even righteous acts were worthless in God's sight if they were not motivated by love.

Not exact matches

Unfortunately in my case, I've probably gone to excess the other way... after 43 years of being (in my view) threatened with hellfire for every cotton - picking thing (including the «sinfulness» of being born in the first place because it's a well - known scriptural fact that every human is born sinful and separated from G - d, with a heart that does nothing but desire evil and no way to please G - d even when righteous), threatened with being «left behind» in the rapture (should I fail on some doctrinal (belief) point at the crucial moment)... I refuse to consider ANY possibility of hell at all.

Best known is his depiction of the sinner as incurvatus in se, «curved in on self»: Our nature, by the corruption of the first sin, is so deeply curved in on itself that it not only bends the best gifts of God towards itself and enjoys them (as is plain in the works - righteous and hypocrites), or rather even uses God himself in order to attain these gifts, but it also fails to realize that it so wickedly, curvedly, and viciously seeks all things, even God, for its own sake.

By chapter 11, even after God has purged the world with a flood, we see righteous Noah's wayward descendants once again impressed with their own God - given ability to shape culture and seeking to replace him with the work of their own hands.

«As it is written, there is no one righteous, not even one.»

It finds a ready home in the biblical text that curiously» even in its most archaic past» chose not to consign all the righteous to the underworld.

Romans 8:1 we are made righteous by faith in Christ not by us turning from sin that would be working for it and Jesus wouldnt get the Glory we would and because we did nt achieve it we can never lose our righteousness even in the midst of our sin!

So not only did the law not justify the one who kept the primary commandment of the law perfectly, thus showing the sinfulness of those under it, and their inability to judge righteously, but it shows that Jesus was vindicated by God for his trust even unto death, apart from the law's judgment, and that he was righteous in doing so.

Even all of our righteous works are like filthy rags (Isaiah 64:6).

Others: Having been sexually abused by a man in our church myself at the age of 12, and having had to endure the consequences for the last 42 years, and having been the target of several righteous / religious attacks over the last few years, the abused have a right to speak and be heard even if it makes you uncomfortable.

In response to the central point of Romans 3, which is that God freely justifies those who trust his faithfulness, as he vindicated the righteousness of Jesus» trust of him, even unto death on a cross, by raising him from the dead, the question that arises is: «Is God righteous to justify simply on the basis of trust in his faithfulness?

God takes the most evil event in human history, and He redeems it in such a way so that most people today do not even think of it as evil, but as the most holy and righteous event in human history.

You are one self righteous clod who rejects the only place you can find real truth and therefore are totally deceived, and a deceived person doesn't even know they are deceived.

The Gospels have in their way met this problem, not only by placing the kerygma on Jesus» lips, but also by presenting individual units from the tradition in such a way that the whole gospel becomes visible: At the call of Levi, we hear (Mark 2.17): «I came not to call the righteous, but sinners»; at the healing of the deaf - mute, we hear (Mark 7.37): «He has done all things well; he even makes the deaf hear and the dumb speak.»

Yet there is an even deeper sense of salvation when the righteous stay in Sodom and Gomorrah, trying to reform them from inside.

In such a view, the protagonist's at times harsh reaction to various sinners, e.g., Filippo Argenti (canto VIII), Pope Nicholas III (canto XIX), Bocca degli Abati (canto XXXII), is not (even if it seems so to some contemporary readers) a sign of his falling into sinful attitudes himself, but proof of his righteous indignation as he learns to hate sin.

For Jesus it was enough to know that to be righteous is to be perfect even as our Heavenly Father is perfect.

Creation is, even when made safe, joyous and fruitful by Yahweh, a domain of righteous, caring, covenantal behavior.

(Matthew 6:8) Prayer was not begging a reluctant deity for his best gifts, as though he were an unjust judge or a surly neighbor in bed with his children unwilling to arise and answer a call for help — although if patience in prayer could accomplish its end even in such cases, how much more with the righteous and merciful God!

Our God is compassionate and full of grace and therefore will attend church at sit through our show - off righteous acts, even as He attends to those that need, Him more; the perishing.

Destruction of the two cities — God seeks out Abraham to intercede on their behalf (this dialog speaks volumes to the nature of God's judgment); even when ten righteous are not found, he intentionally spares Lot's family, and then at Lot's request spares a small town that would otherwise have been destroyed.

As for your «righteous» ruler... well, if you think the function of the President is to «rule», you're even more of a lost cause than anyone had imagined.

I have at times, even I, have felt self - righteous toward others and spiritually superior and have had to confess and repent, so how Much harder it must be for those who have lived «righteous» lives.

This is a total farce and completely untrue but it is an idea that must be promoted and projected as true when all evidence indicates Muslims hate America, that even the most «moderate» Muslims are very self - righteous regarding their religion, and that they hate our military and the US even though they desparately escaped their worthless Muslim countries to come here.

He surrounded Himself with people who were socially awkward, hot - headed, self - righteous and even deceitful.

Neville i agree with you Jesus has the power to forgive sin past present and future through the cross when he died his death covered past present and future.If those in the old testament were justified by faith and made righteous then they are covered by the blood of Jesus even though he hadn't died for them yet because there hope was in God.Isn't that what the definition of faith is it is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things unseen.The proof is Enoch how could he go to be with God if he was not righteous and only the blood of Jesus is able to do that.

One possibility is simply to take the Bible at its word: All of humanity, and indeed all of the animals too, was wicked, and even Noah was not entirely righteous but only the most righteous of his wicked generation, as an ancient Jewish tradition stated.

Thus the absence from the dominant image of the ministry in Protestantism of the permanent truths in the medieval image helped later Protestant rationalism and intellectualism to become stiff - necked and rigid and even arrogant; pietism to become detached and legalistic and self - righteous; emotional and anti-intellectual groups to become aesthetically barren and theologically illiterate; and some liturgical - minded groups to conclude that the calluses on their knees entitled them to wear plugs in their ears.

Augustine thought no one capable of righteous self - control, and thus, for him, «even the most advanced ascetic confronts the same continual insurrection within.»

25 In the same way, was not even Rahab the prostitute considered righteous for what she did when she gave lodging to the spies and sent them off in a different direction?

Since this evening of taking place, I now know what is truly righteous and have no wants or desires to commit willful sin.

1 John 3:7 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

We all should look to Christ as the author and finisher of our faith and look to no man, As the Scriptures say, «No one is righteous — not even one.

Even though satan is known as the evil sexy righteous one who lies, many times its our own fault we sin, make mistakes and give into temptation.

A bunch of self - righteous hypocrites that don't practice even one thing they preach.

Left on our own, we are, in most ordinary matters, neither heroically righteous nor heroically evil nor even heroically ambiguous; we simply drift — from at least a theoretical belief in God's overriding sovereignty in our lives, to a working pragmatism which simply assumes that the little decisions are ours to make.

Brigitte said it well, though: we still sin even though we are considered righteous in the sight of God.

Now stop getting so angry guys, you know you're hurting your chance at becoming a god after this life even if you are using righteous indignation...

As the forceful but measured actions of the United States since September 11 make clear, righteous anger, properly tempered by reason and law, can serve the cause of goodness and justice, and even put a stop to the «cycle of violence.»

We have become way too much eyeball people as Christians assume that those who don't live according to the way they do they are unsaved, we have created this judgemental relationship which hurts peoples fellowship with God, there are no litmus tests for people that believe in Jesus, which is why we are called to not judge others, and people use James 2:14, and 1 John's verse of those who practices righteousness are righteous even though I think it's talking about earthly righteousness toward people that we as Christians should show because there is a lost world out there that needs are help and these doctrines of guilt, condemnation, anger, and judgement aren't helping in fact they are doing the opposite, just like how in James it's justification towards man.

People would be OUTRAGED, and yes, even the self - righteous Christians

But Jesus told us to offer grace without boundaries, recorded in Matthew 5f, that we were to be perfect as our heavenly Father — who even causes the rain to fall of the fields of the righteous and unrighteous.