Sentences with phrase «more righteousness»

American Made Movie is mostly an audio - visual book report of plot synopsis; it leaves one wanting for just a little more — a little more clarity, a little more fire, a little more investigation, and a little more righteousness.

He blazed with righteousness in A Time to Kill, orated with even more righteousness in Amistad (he had a thing for lawyers), and balanced that out with sneaky turns in The Newton Boys and EdTV.

Less sin does not equal more righteousness (115).

Not exact matches

We need to have a righteousness consciousness, not a sin consciousness... the more we oppose something the more we attract it.

Now, Job after his bought with «pride» he ask YHWH for his forgiveness, and was later blessed with more sons and daughters who did the law, who were good children and an even better wife, and he lived for four generations of his children and their children, and died a very happy and fulfilled life, knowing that all of his family was left with love, and peace and togetherness among each other, now this is true life, living righteously and wholesome by ourselves and by others around us is what we are all suppose to live like, caring for your neighbors faithfully, and all be as one now not after it is too late but now we need the law of righteousness from YHWH, the 10 commandments, the sabbath, a day of rest, and the passover to remember the ones who died innocently, and to remember the freedom of our lives given by YHWH and do good by one another and not let each other fall, right now is what we need in this world today people.

But, it is not the case, thus proving that righteousness is nothing more than a prank on the highly gullible.

Philippians 3:8,9 «More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ, and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith,»

What conceit and self righteousness to think for a moment that any of you are someone who is being looked after or has the ability to move on to an after life with this conjoured up image of some humanoid that will ascene you to some kind of «Happy Land» when you are more likely dead forever and dried up turning into bug invested happy meals or just plan old dust if your sealed or cremated..

But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more, 21 so that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

I am for the elimination of hate, fear and control, religion is just the catalyst that people use to hate, fear and control, getting rid of religion won't solve the problem, its like putting a band aid on a severe cut, its temporary, and it just hits the surface, instead we need to go deeper than that to the root cause, I know lots of religious people who don't hate, fear or control, there are also many beliefs such as paganism, Buddism, Taoism, which doesn't use hate fear, and self righteousness to condemn others, I think if maybe more of the most major religions followed there teachings then we wouldn't have as much problems as we do.

For instance, in the case of Moses, when he confronted God in Exodus 32:11 - 13 after God had threatened to destroy Israel for their sins, Moses confronts God and recounts the promises that God made to Abraham, Isaac, and Israel to multiply them and give them the land as an inheritance forever — and this was exactly what God intended him to do, intercede for God's people — of course God did not forget His promises that He had made to His people, but with the threatening of an omnipotent God, Moses was even more resolved to lead this people in righteousness.

20 Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more, 21 so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

You might say, «Oh, Christ is my righteousness», but what if, all of a sudden, you decide that you don't believe that any more?

Let theology rejoice that faith is once again a «scandal,» not simply a moral scandal, an offense to man's pride and righteousness, but, far more deeply, an ontological scandal.

The point was that any person, regardless of appearances or status, who acknowledged his unworthiness was more acceptable to God than one who was proud of his righteousness.

But as shocking and painful as all these losses were, my instinctive response shocked me even more: the rage, the blame - shifting, the thirst for revenge, the bitter arrogance, the self - justified resentment, the dark self - righteousness, the control - hungry manipulation, the deluded rationalization, the deep selfishness, the perverted sense of entitlement.

«Many Christians still at bottom look upon God as one of the most selfish, self - absorbed Beings in the universe, far more selfish than they could think it right to be themselves, — intent only upon His own honor and glory, looking out continually that His own rights are never trampled on; and so absorbed in thoughts of Himself and of His own righteousness, as to have no love or pity to spare for the poor sinners who have offended Him.»

17For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive God's abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ!

Something of God is shown in the natural order, more in living matter, and still more in the movement in history toward righteousness, justice, beauty, and goodness.

And yet there is more to this Kingdom that is still to come, Jesus said, and so we await a day when every tear will be wiped from every eye, when swords will be beaten into plowshares and spears shaped into a pruning hooks, when justice will cascade like a river down a mountain and righteousness like a never - ending stream, when people from every tribe and tongue and nation will live together in peace, when there will be no more death.

But even more attractive, in my view, than these plausible reasons for Abraham's silent acquiescence in the horrible request are the following: (1) Abraham had learned, in the episode over Sodom, that the pursuit of righteousness may require sacrificing your own; (2) he felt and feared both the awesome power of God and also His righteousness; and, especially, (3) he had understood immediately the meaning of the test, namely, that he was being asked to show what was first in his soul: Was it the love of his own (and of the promise and the covenant) or was it the fear - awe - reverence for God?

The present volatile situation, worrying because of the deliberate lack of ideological depth and clarity, and annoying because of the language of messianic self - righteousness from both sides, continues to throw up the issues of peace and reconciliation in an even more urgent manner.

The date of Christmas may have initially been chosen to correspond with the day exactly nine months after early Christians believed Jesus to have been conceived, [20] or with one or more ancient polytheistic festivals that occurred near southern solstice (i.e., the Roman winter solstice); a further solar connection has been suggested because of a biblical verse [a] identifying Jesus as the «Sun of righteousness».

In any case it should be clear that we do not create unity, no more than we bring about righteousness by means of our works, but that on the other hand we should not sit around twiddling our thumbs.

For Abraham, the lesson could not be more pointed: His excessive preoccupation with God's personal promise, with his own merit and its reward — that is, with personal justice — is in fact at odds with the fulfillment of the purpose of God's promise that he become a great nation, steeped in righteousness, to become a blessing to all the others.

But even when he is speaking in the tones of Jeremiah, he will suddenly break in with the melody of Isaiah, offering hope that in repentance we can still go forward toward God in genuine hope; and he will do so in passages (here from «Transgressions and Infirmities») that powerfully recall the cadences of St. Paul: «On the whole, then, this may be considered a Christian's state: ever about to fall, yet by God's mercy never falling; ever dying, yet always alive; full of infirmities, yet free from transgressions; and, as time goes on, more and more free from infirmities also, as tending to that perfect righteousness which is the fulfilling of the Law.»

«Like Elsa, I spent many years more interested in self - control than in passion — or, to borrow some church words, more interested in self - righteousness than in love.

And being good meant trying to live in accord with the ethical teaching of scripture, whether that was understood as a narrow and highly specific code of righteousness, or more generally as following important principles such as the golden rule, loving your neighbor as yourself, and so forth.

No one is more special than another in the sight of the Creator YHWH of His righteousness.

Your wickedness makes you as it were heavy as lead, and to tend downwards with great weight and pressure towards hell; and if God should let you go, you would immediately sink and swiftly descend and plunge into the bottomless gulf, and your healthy constitution, and your own care and prudence, and best contrivance, and all your righteousness, would have no more influence to uphold you and keep you out of hell, than a spider's web would have to stop a fallen rock.

They make us less likely to display some of the uglier traits of our subgroup and perhaps more aware that if we want greater righteousness for the church and all of us in it, we may have to fix ourselves as well as those others.

I guess my response to this letter would be to ask them to examine more closely how Jesus responded to those who claimed to be righteous yet boldly continued in their behavior contrary to God's word with arrogance and the pride of self - righteousness.

Or do you really think, as it seems you are saying here, that God gets more glory from those that confess that, as long as they are in this world, they will be in bondage to a certain amount of sin, than from those, like myself, that confess that they are free from sin, and servants of righteousness through the power of Yahshua?

Faith is supposed to be used not just for escaping the flames of hell, and going to heaven, but even more for righteousness — thinking, speaking, and acting like Them, which brings Them honor in the earth!

Love is central in God's relation to man and is more important than fear of God, justice, or righteousness.

A more ancient view, still apparent at many points in the Old Testament, had been that righteousness was rewarded by prosperity and long life in this world, and misfortune was a punishment for sin; but as Israel suffered more and more adversity, and the most faithful individuals and groups were the most oppressed and afflicted, it came to be felt that the humble, the meek, the devout, the poor were the righteous people of God, and the mighty and prosperous were the proud, wicked oppressors.

It is their «principle of life», something much more profound than can be indicated by talk about their goodness of life and their concern for righteousness, truth, and the other virtues.

Our righteousness is to exceed that of the Pharisees and our love is to be more than that of the Gentiles...»

For them justice and righteousness were far more central in the understanding of God than God's military prowess or God's favoritism toward Israel.

Jewish persecution of the Christians had begun alongside the Roman, and everything pointed to the need to see the new covenant as a fulfillment of the old, to stress the new righteousness as not less but more demanding than the old.

You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness; Therefore God, Your God, has anointed You With the oil of gladness more than Your companions.»

«Righteousness,» in English is also more inclusive that justice.

Somehow, Torah, which certainly is more than a set of legal rules, and which refers to a dynamic reality — namely, God's righteousness as.

What would your reaction be if I said to you, «My hope is built on nothing more than Jesus» blood and righteousness»?

Rom 5:17 For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)

But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: Rom 5:21 That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.

Here we see what may well be adjudged the culmination of Israel's monotheistic achievement: the one God of the universe is a God of righteousness, but still more he is a God of love: «His tender mercies are over all his works» (Ps.

The great convictions were of the reality and immediacy of a God of righteousness and love, and the unparalleled conceptions of the exalted nature of man and his duty under God — or in terms more congenial to the modes of thought of the wise men, conduct that best fulfills and expresses his high being.

More specifically, the warnings and reproof of the succession of prophets through several centuries, often directed immediately toward personal conduct and always implying such application, had borne fruitage in a realization that the individual's righteousness depended, not on his membership in the nation, but on his response to the prophet's message.

The real faith or belief must lead to the righteousness of the sinner (you are no sinner, if you keep the ten commandments more than perfectly; love is the fullfillment of the law; you have got that supernatural love?).