Sentences with phrase «righteous by»

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.

And you'll feel positively righteous by limiting the distance of your trips.

You may not have broken the law, but by golly we'll make ourselves feel self - righteous by calling you immoral».

In your love and faithfulness redeem me, and make me a new creation, through my trust in Your Son Jesus Christ, who bore my sins on the cross of Calvary that I may be cleansed and made righteous by His sacrifice, and accepted as your son / daughter through faith in Him.

It is clear that we become righteous by faith alone, but why should we hide our righteousness.

Martin Luther (1483 - 1546) understood justification in Paul's letter to the Romans (3:21 - 6) as the instantaneous realization that sinners are forgiven and made righteous by the work of Christ crucified.

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.

(Romans 2:9 - 16) Many exclusivists themselves concede that people living before the time of Christ were made righteous by faith without explicit knowledge of Jesus.

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

The Old Testament saints that looked forward to the cross where Jesus the Christ died were made righteous by imputation.

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

... But with the coming of Jesus, we were set free... We were made righteous by Jesus, mothers.»

The whole context of the Epistle to the Romas makes it clear that by the true faith we shall become righteous by word and deed.

I understand that your interpretation of scripture doesn't agree with Saint Augustine's, but you can not deny that forcible, violent conversion has been justified as righteous by some of the most influential theologians in the history of Christendom.

Abraham was righteous by word and deed, otherwise he would not be still venerated.

«but you can not deny that forcible, violent conversion has been justified as righteous by some of the most influential theologians in the history of Christendom.»

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

but counted righteous by God, only through our faith in His Son our Savior and what he has done for us on the cross.

The issue I have with our preconceived religious mindsets is that either we are righteous by the very fact that we are alive or we are righteous by the very fact that we believe in Christ.

We're righteous by Christ's grace, and evil by nature.

but i am made righteous by the blood.

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 to be taken as righteous by God.

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

Yet, does someone get merely a label «righteous» or shall someone become righteous by word and deed???

And you know what, after my revelation of GRACE last year which absolutely set me free from «performance Christianity» God told me that, regardless of what «scriptures» people threw at me, what He was telling me directly to my heart, that He has made me perfectly righteous by the blood of His son regardless of what I do or don't do, I must trust His voice in my heart, more than the printed «Word» which has been bended, bent, misterpreted and mistaught.

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

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!

Not exact matches

Moreover, by forcing draconian DRM locks on these games, requiring an Internet connection to play them, a move aimed at fighting piracy, EA has earned the righteous enmity of its customers.

«We don't need to be attacked by the self - righteous on the other side.

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'd rather be a «filthy aetheist» than a deluded, self important, self - righteous person (as obviously demonstrated by your posts) as yourself.

Our theology and doctrines, no matter how they are interpreted or by whom, do not make any of us righteous — the resurrection of Christ does.

By grace and love, God offers a proxy to you, who lived a perfect life as a man, as our representative to repair the fall of Adam, and who endured the righteous wrath of God for you.

The Son Of God Our Saviour Said very clearly, the righteous will be persecuted and by those who think that they are serving God.

So does that mean that I can whoop it up in this life on earth but repent in my spirit life because I was «taught» by the spirits of the righteous and then all will be okee dokey???? Sweet!

But when you believe the word of Christ, you honor his word and by this work you are righteous, etc..

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.

If fact, G loves the existence of the righteous atheist so much more because the righteous atheist is motivated neither by fear nor eternalising bribes to do the right thing.

The hate and self - righteous indignation spewed by atheist posters about this article really ticked me off so I had to take a step back.

But the purposes of theological dialogue are much better served by the assumption of two active and responsible partners than of one who is active (and guilt - ridden) and the other passive (and self - righteous).

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.

If you love your neighbor as yourself and prove it by your actions then you are righteous.

People who are in their final stages don't need self - righteous folks like you making themselves feel better by spouting out their beliefs.

That's why Jesus always ridiculed the self - righteous pompous people like Fox news and the rich, but chose to be with the sick, the Gentiles and those who were put away by society.

Joseph was within his rights to have her stoned by the village, but he chose to send her away quietly, and is remembered as a righteous man.

Not by their merits but by the merits of the One [Jesus] who came to this world and lived a sinless and righteous life in the place of all who trust in Him for eternal life.

It's hard to imagine that self righteous Christians feel the need to rob the dying of their last few minutes by telling them how they're going to burn in hell for eternity if they aren't like them.

-- the Emperor is not a demi - god that has always righteous and divine decrees — this is the failure of the Moses Model of Leadership held by the Calvary Chapels and Vineyards;