Sentences with phrase «from unrighteous»

Catholics believe that we are justified — going from unrighteous to righteous in God's sight — by grace through faith, and no works whatsoever are involved in this.

Which marked the righteous one apart from the unrighteous (dietary laws).

If so, I'd be asking Jesus for forgiveness for my sins that I knew about and sins that seemed natural because Jesus haters of this world ensure everyone sins and all get blotted out for eternity... not knowing righteous from unrighteous.

Not exact matches

For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment; if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; and if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked (for as that righteous man lived among them day after day, he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard); then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment, and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority.

I can kind of see where you get this from — Matt 7 — God makes sun and rain go to both the unrighteous and righteous... I think it is an accurate view of the teachings we have been given (and it's humble).

Oh Lard, help me kill them all, let me drop flames from the firmaments upon the unrighteous heathens.

When we think of God overthrowing unrighteous rulers and abusive authorities, we think of God removing them from their position, and setting someone else up in their place of power.

In 2 Peter 2:9, Peter summarizes his point by saying that the Lord knows how to rescue godly men from trials while allowing the unrighteous to continue toward their punishment.

The presbyters must be tenderhearted, merciful toward all, turning back [the sheep] who have gone astray, visiting the sick, not neglecting widow or orphan or poor man, abstaining from all anger, respect of persons, unrighteous judgment, being far from all love of money, not hastily believing [anything] against any one, not stern in judgment, knowing that we are all debtors because of sin.7