Sentences with phrase «righteous person in»

What is the saving effect of having righteous people in allegedly wicked cities?

If God has a policy of non-intervention, if nature is out of control, if the destroyer destroys, and if sin cannibalizes itself, how could God have stepped in and stopped all this if He had found ten righteous people in the city?

Then, Abraham negotiates with God as to the number of righteous people in Sodom.

Lot and his family were the only righteous people in the entire city, and He made sure they were removed — escorted by angels — before destroying it.

Sshhh, he thinks Lincoln forced the South to accept slavery before the righteous people in the South won the War of Northern Aggression.

Not exact matches

Whenever I write about how success is often based on outworking other people — both in terms of effort and in terms of hours spent — many people respond with righteous indignation.

@freethinker... religion may be an anachronism for you, but it isn't for many... certainly not for the mother who a child in the Ohio shooting, but who's faith helps her deal with her... I don't care what people worship... communism, football, buddhism, witchcraft, amish, catholic... I would never be arrogant enough to tell somebody else what to believe... but we all can't be as self righteous as you.

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

People like Santorum remind me of the Pharasees who were careful to show up in the temple full of pride and self righteous indignation for anyone who dared to question their rigid ideology yet never took one step towards bettering conditions in their society or spoke out against social and economic injustice.

Before Judas proceeded to leave this world, he decided that all people should have at least a good memory of him and he went to the high priests and told them he had turned in guiltless blood, and additionally he threw the wage of betrayel (30 silver coins) into the temple, so that all people of Isreal should get convinced that he had been a righteous man, having made a mistake.

Regrettably I can't escape hearing about how righteous they are from people that think it's okay to shove in everyone else's face.

And after that, I thought about the Biblical admonition: «When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.»

You shouldn't hate the people and you shouldn't relish in vengeance, but «when justice is done, it brings joy to the righteous but terror to evildoers.»

To be honest, it's more than a little scary when the people who are supposed to be spiritual role models for the next generation are seemingly lost in a sea of self - righteous, politicized sin that seems to be so far removed from what Jesus represented.

God's people are all whom he foreknew would believe in his Son, and whom he predestined to someday be fully conformed to his righteous image.

There are people you say they believe but really don't, they do it for social advantages or to seem righteous in front of other people.

God's promise to the people was a king who is righteous, deals wisely, executes justice and righteousness in the land, and enables the people to live securely.

In this journey, God develops you into a righteous person.

The confusion is that an empathetic person with a healthy full range of emotions including righteous anger to adultery in their distorted minds is «bipolar.»

God's people do not take comfort in the eternal punishment for that rejection, but we do take comfort that God will be glorified eternally by all men, whether in heaven with Him by His grace and love, or separated as receivers of His righteous wrath.

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.

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.

In spite of all the excruciating ambiguities of history, it is fundamental to the Christian faith that humanity is saved by the life of one righteous person!

Luke 15 >> New International Version 1984 7I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety - nine righteous persons who do not need to repent

If that is so, then our nation must be seen by the worshipers of Yahweh not as any more sacred, any more holy, or any more righteous than any other nation or people, and our propaganda that would try to convince us otherwise must be countered in the name of the oneness of God.

The other ear listens to the parable of the growing seed in Mark 4:26 - 29 with its rebuke of self - righteous zealotic activism, and its claim that God, not the people, will establish the kingdom when the time is ripe.

«9 Jesus made the same point sharply in his parable of the lost sheep: «I tell you there will be greater joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety - nine righteous people who do not need to repent» (Luke 15:7).

However, in a few places we also see that God will raise the dead and judge all, and there will be only two groups of people, the righteous and the wicked.

7Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety - nine righteous persons who need no repentance.»

There is a scripture that says in Proverbs chapter 12 that righteous people take care of their animals and are compassionate towards living creatures.

Discernment is not judgmentalism, it is wisdom; but discernment includes the recognition of our own sinful tendencies, including the instinctive self - righteous response, and reminds us, as Sister Helen Prejean discovered in her ministry to those awaiting capital punishment in prison that «people are more than the worst thing they have ever done in their lives.»

What God is looking for is repentence and a turning to him rather than a turning away from him.God instituted the animal sacrifices to show just how bad sin was so we would be sorry that we greived him.For us to be made right there has to be a choice to turn from sin and follow him and out of that decision there should be a desire to walk in his ways.Under the old law part of that obedience was to make offerings however it was by faith in God that made the person righteous and not the blood of animals.

It is said by God Allah that only good people will inherit earth and did not say white or Black and did not say Muslim or not Muslim but said believers: In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful And indeed We have written in Az - Zabûr [i.e. all the revealed Holy Books — the Taurât (Torah), the Injeel (Gospel), the Psalms, the Qur «ân] after (We have already written in) Al - Lauh Al - Mahfûz (the Book, that is in the heaven with Allâh), that My righteous slaves shall inherit the land (earth)(105) Sura 21:1In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful And indeed We have written in Az - Zabûr [i.e. all the revealed Holy Books — the Taurât (Torah), the Injeel (Gospel), the Psalms, the Qur «ân] after (We have already written in) Al - Lauh Al - Mahfûz (the Book, that is in the heaven with Allâh), that My righteous slaves shall inherit the land (earth)(105) Sura 21:1in Az - Zabûr [i.e. all the revealed Holy Books — the Taurât (Torah), the Injeel (Gospel), the Psalms, the Qur «ân] after (We have already written in) Al - Lauh Al - Mahfûz (the Book, that is in the heaven with Allâh), that My righteous slaves shall inherit the land (earth)(105) Sura 21:1in) Al - Lauh Al - Mahfûz (the Book, that is in the heaven with Allâh), that My righteous slaves shall inherit the land (earth)(105) Sura 21:1in the heaven with Allâh), that My righteous slaves shall inherit the land (earth)(105) Sura 21:105

First, the Kingdom means the sovereign, righteous rule of God in a redeemed society — that is, in a society of persons who accept God's rule and endeavor to live in obedience to his will.

with all and full respect; You know that your used name is dear to my heart, for having been a believer in God the Creator of the whole Universe he has all the beautiful names that we know or do not know, I believe that God starched his hand to mankind in love, sending among them his prophets and messengers to warn and guide to righteous, am not told to force belief or religion upon people of any faith or of non faith, am a mere reminder and Warner to my self and whom my want to know and judge their senses life is a spiritual challenge, life is a maze and only if make use of the heavenly codes that could be found in All Scriptures of God that was relaid upon mankind from prophets & messengers from Adam to Noah to Abrahim to Musa to Issa to Muhammed which many obviously seem to Ignore!!

«Is it because you are more righteous than the person who abides in unbelief?»

The age old problem of SELF often is manifest in a false identity such as; «we are children of Abraham» (therefore I am righteous), «I go to... «church»» (somehow this «church» makes you something) or «all you say we will do» (the people of Israel saying they in themself can meet God's standard), «I give to the church» (not personally meeting others needs), «I do this program or that program» (though you do not desire to glorify God but rather there is some intrinsic value in doing a program).

Jeremy Myers, i think you are wrong and David is right, so many out there are preaching you can live any way you want and be right that Grace covers any sin, they really believe that, that is not what the bible says, God was very concerned about sin so much he sent Jesus his son to die on a cross for us, if we accept Jesus as our savor then we are to obey his commandments, not break them, we are to live a righteous and holy life as possible, the bible plainly list a whole list of things if we live in will not to to heaven unless we repent, if we die while in these sins, we will not go to heaven, what is the difference, between someone who said a prayer and someone who did not, and they are living the same way, none, i think, if we are truly saved it should be hard to do these things let alone live and do them everyday, i would be afraid to tell people that it does not matte grace covers their sins, i really think it is the slip ups that we are convicted of by the Holy Spirit and we ask for forgivness, how can anyones heart be right with God and they have sex all the time out of marriage, lie, break every commandment of God, i don't think this is meaning grace covers those sins, until they repent and ask for forgiveness, a lot of people will end up in hell because preachers teach Grace the wrong way,, and those preachers will answer to God for leading these people the wrong way, not saying you are one of them, but be careful, everything we teach or preach must line up with the word of God, God hates sin,

Jesus our scapegoat, made atonement for the sins of His people, so that they may be righteous before the Father in Christ.

The Pharisees we see in the Gospels were good men; they were morally righteous people.

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.

When one puts his faith in Christ alone to save, not works, Christ's righteousness is imputed to him, and God sees that person as righteous.

The sense of the prophetic ethic and morality is always something like this: «You shall refrain from this practice, or you shall do thus - and - so, because I am Yahweh who brought you up out of Egypt [election] and you are a people voluntarily committed in return to the performance of my just and righteous will [covenant].»

I wish that you would let people's comments sit in your heart awhile before attacking each one with a self - righteous attitude.

We are SO righteous here with our war machine, our high divorce and high rate of killing, raping, and scamming each other — from a group of people that believe in some other God.

People refusing medical treatment because they think they can pray disease away, The demoralizing way religion makes you feel about yourself (I am a wretch, a sinner, a bad person by nature), the religious wars that have been fought for millenia, the self righteous passing laws based on THEIR beliefs (change to the pledge of allegience which now excludes anyone who does not believe in a fairy godfather, the change to the national motto that turned it into the lie «in god we trust», the bigotry that «my religion is the right one and you are wrong so I'll pray for you» kind of crap... don't you realize that it is insulting to me when someone says they will pray for me... its the same as saying I'm going to do something for you but there won't be any effect, so it is just a waste of time.

The self righteous self serving people who refuse to discuss anything that has not been «taught» to them by pastors... I hope people are wise to their false love and bait they use to get you in....

A person can not please God with good works, righteous living and giving to the poor without faith in Him.

Paul says «a person is righteous not by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ.»

Any gay person can tell you of the same fear of rejection by those they trust the most at that time upon coming out... the religiously - minded in our society are so self - righteous about their beliefs that when a loved one comes out as a non-believer their first genuine instinct is to pity you and work frantically to «save» you.