Sentences with phrase «of true righteousness»

The apostles are other examples.We can not BE His examples but it is better to strive toward that goal than to accept anything less than God's standard of true righteousness.

Of course his is not venerated for his faith, but because he lived a life of true righteousness in daily life.

It continues to make us aware of the legitimate demand of true righteousness.

Not exact matches

Seemingly the power elite has become so Satanic or anti-Christian that they are yet disturbed through the smallest remembrance of Christianity (the religion of unselfish love and righteousness) awakened through Catholicsm, cheap - grace - Protestantism, or true Christianity.

because he and many others believe that this way of life, a way which denies the Preeminence of the One True God and of Jesus Christ as the One and Only True Way of Life, is a way of man's righteousness and peace....

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.

(Revelations 19)(when jesus comes back to earth) «And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war», «His eyes were as a flame of fire», clothed in a vesture dipped in blood ``, and «out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.»»

The apostle Paul writing to the church in Ephesus encouraged them «with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self... and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.»

Such civil righteousness is not the same as spiritual righteousness, namely, the true pure love which only the Holy Spirit can work in human hearts against the impulses of the flesh.

To distinguish, as Christians must, eternal peace from earthly peace, eternal salvation from this - worldly liberation, social justice from the righteousness of faith does not diminish or discredit the temporal social - historical dimensions of what is true and good and beautiful.

Only a true community can demonstrate the Absolute and point the way to the kingdom of God: «Though something of righteousness may become evident in the life of the individual, righteousness itself can only become wholly visible in the structures of the life of a people.»

Christians believe that this kind of love of neighbor constitutes a true righteousness in terms of which they find themselves to fall short.

Righteous politics requires not only a desire for greatness, but a willingness to subordinate that desire to the source of righteousness, in which subordination is true greatness to be found.

God arranges the encounter, «seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations shall be blessed in him,» and reveals for the first time His true interest in Abraham: «For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the ways of the Lord, to do righteousness and justice: to the end that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which He hath spoken of him» (18:17 — 19; emphasis added).

Today we have plenty of cults, sects and false churches replacing practical love and righteousness in daily life (that would require the true faith) through ridiculous rituals (for example, the Muslims keep the 5 Pillars of Islam; that is enough to be a good Muslim, but they are not required to love all people independent from belief, nationality, etc.) The cults, sects and false churches make their members practicing a biased love.

No, a true Christian does not do good to «curry» favor with God, the bible is clear on this, we can not gain favor or salvation through works of righteousness, we do it as an offering to God, an offering of obedience, not to feel good about ourselves.

not the righteousness of checking off our little goals, but the true righteousness and purity of God.

They believe that Jesus was born of Adam who came down from heaven to impregnate Mary, and that God Himself used to be a man like us, who progressed higher and higher until He became a god, which we will become if we work hard to be good enough.They have a form of righteousness, but miss the whole point of true salvation — trusting in Jesus Christ and His finished work on the cross to save them.

According to Romans 3, no one unaided by God 1) has any righteousness by which to lay a claim upon God, 2) has any true understanding of God, or 3) seeks God (Boice and Ryken, Doctrines of Grace, 79).

The way and gate to the True God is narrow and difficult (because man rejects the Will of God and desires, instead, to live according to his own will, his own self - interests, his own self - righteousness.

in other words to acknowledge and serve only the One True Creator, and secondly to love our neighbor as ourselves... in other words to do good (by the righteousness of God) to others as to oneself.

(See, for example: 1 Corinthians 1:30: «But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption»; 1 Thessalonians 1:9 - 10: «For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God; And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come»; 1 Peter 2:24: «Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed..»)

This is true whether the sin is the selfishness and self - righteousness of the individual human spirit or the collective sin of global destruction.

How easily we forget that the very heart and texture of the message of Jesus and Paul clashed — head on in many cases — with the piety and morality of the times to show that true righteousness was something entirely given from God to humanity.

The Messiah is the one in whom the Jews centered their hopes for the coming of a new age of righteousness, in which particularly the injustices done to the people of Israel would be punished and loyalty to the one true God appropriately rewarded.

«You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.»

p.s. taught in Ezekiel 14:14 - 20, Jeremiah 31:30, and in Deuteronomy 24:16, «no man can die for another man's sins, we ae all responsible for our own righteousness» So now tell me why would the Almighty YHWH say this through His true prophets from Genesis - Malachi the book of remembrance named in Malachi 3:16, the so called OT; then turn around and say that anyone, or jc died for our sins, rationalize people, YHWH is not contrary He does it all Deuteronomy 32:39, and Isaiah 44:24 alone, He is the Holy One taught in Isaiah 43:3,15, and Isaiah 43:13, «No man can be delivered from out of His hands».

We are forced to conclude that, as in Solomon's day, Yahwists believed that the power, prestige, wealth and apparent security of the crown and the nation were bought at a price too dear — widening economic disparity between rich and poor, the ruthless exploitation of society's weaker members, a deepening acquisitiveness and an inevitably accompanying disregard of the justice and righteousness of Yahweh, the meaning of covenant, and the true practice of the Yahweh cult.

You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrüpted by its deceïtful desïres; to be made new in the attïtude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.

---------------------- That's true, and God would have been completely justified in wiping out all of humanity at their first infraction of His righteousness, but God is not only just, but He is merciful, and gives grace to the humble.

This bigotry could be endured, if Islam would mean love and righteousness in daily life (a true Christian shall be full of love and righteousness to everybody independent from belief, color, nationality, status, etc. in daily life).

In their quest for righteousness, they often become self righteous, using their belief system as a weapon, to bash over the heads of others, rather than as a tool to improve their own lives and to become a living example of what true christians should be like or what truly compassionate humans should be like, it's very sad, that so many christians don't have a clue how to act like decent people, and that they are hypocrites and full of hate.

-21 assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus, 22 to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, 23 and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, 24 and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.

Paul said in 2 Timothy 3:16 «All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:», well if that is not true, then it is not true of the whole.

It shows us how «righteousness exalteth a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people,» and that this is true of great and small, of the life of the Nations as of individuals.

The true nature of self - righteousness.»