Sentences with phrase «righteous persons who»

«There will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety - nine righteous persons who need no repentance.»

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.»

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

And you are right, sometimes the worst place we can be is with self - righteous people who hatefully bash others.

Actually, if anything makes God vomit, it's self - righteous people who are always preaching about the «sins» of other people.

«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).

Yes he does resemble Obama but who cares its just a coincidence people - Satan is not real except for those who want him to be-the self righteous people who think they are going to heaven.

While I do not believe that good and righteous people who love God will always have life turn out peachy keen, I nevertheless have a big problem with a God who uses humans the way that God uses Job in these two chapters.

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

So if we use 1 Corinthians 5 to justify a bounded set approach for who we can have company with, the only person who will be «inside» the circle is the self - righteous person who thinks they are sinless.

Atheists have little patience for self - righteous people who arrogantly spew obvious myth and legend composed of illogical nonsense.

Not exact matches

@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.

Most of the righteous people I see are agnostics and atheists; most of the unrighteous people I see are those who claim their god is going to punish and burn people who don't have the same non-provable OPINIONS as they do.

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.

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.

The very people who are self - righteous and judgmental about the President should know that he's a caring introspective Christian, not some demigod trying to insidiously take down our Government.

The spirit of every person who dies — whether righteous or wicked — returns to God at death

People who «believe» are too defensive and righteous about their beliefs to be taken seriously.

It was the self - righteous religious people who condemned Jesus for hanging out with tax - collectors, sinners, and prostitutes.

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.

When it comes to discussing who Jesus hung out with, the choice is not between the righteous people and the unrighteous people (for all are unrighteous), but rather between the religious and the non-religious.

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.

Prior to Christ the only people who were righteous, were those who God declared as righteous.

You are one self righteous clod who rejects the only place you can find real truth and therefore are totally deceived, and a deceived person doesn't even know they are deceived.

Who is the righteous person of Psalm 15?

It wasn't just Moses who argued, but also Abraham — he of the «for the sake of 10 righteous people...».

Those who choose this approach must beware lest they end up as self - centered and self - righteous communities of upper middle class people playing at being poor, preoccupied with their own problems and contributing little or nothing to helping others or to resolving the world's problems.

Why should not the choice be made by the person most directly concerned rather than by the self - righteous busybodies who torment unhappy women at abortion clinics?

He surrounded Himself with people who were socially awkward, hot - headed, self - righteous and even deceitful.

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.

Christians are a bunch of self - righteous people passing there judgement on those who do not believe.

Ask the pastor sitting on his righteous throne to explain how it is that during the holocaust it was secular people who were more likely to help the Jews than the Christians.

His parables frequently end with a «punch line» that presents a challenge to conventional expectation: the scorned Samaritan is the «good» one who proves neighbor to the victim on the Jericho Road; those who come to work late at the harvest are provided the same reward as those who toiled all day; the wayward prodigal son is the one who is feasted; the prayer of a repentant sinner is more acceptable to God than that of a righteous Pharisee.9 Shorter sayings make the same point: A camel could pass through a needle's eye more easily than a person of great wealth can enter into God's inbreaking realm (Mt 19:24).

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

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,

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].»

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....

You are the people who admit you keep sinning so look at the truth 1 Timothy 1:9 Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

We have become way too much eyeball people as Christians assume that those who don't live according to the way they do they are unsaved, we have created this judgemental relationship which hurts peoples fellowship with God, there are no litmus tests for people that believe in Jesus, which is why we are called to not judge others, and people use James 2:14, and 1 John's verse of those who practices righteousness are righteous even though I think it's talking about earthly righteousness toward people that we as Christians should show because there is a lost world out there that needs are help and these doctrines of guilt, condemnation, anger, and judgement aren't helping in fact they are doing the opposite, just like how in James it's justification towards man.

It is written in the book of Dawkins 2:28 - 34 «Then shall the bearers of false witness claiming supernatural phenomenon and worshipers of deitys fall upon the righteous with their knives and swords, tearing my people apart who did nothing but point out that their God's did not exist.

And the teachers, pastors, scholars, and Christians who hold these other views are also good, godly, righteous, wise, holy, humble people.

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

-- That's why I'm so self - righteous around people who represent this part of me.

Here the figures of speech, the examples selected, and the persons addressed all belong to the villages of Galilee — the savorless salt thrown into the street, the one lamp that lights the whole household, the village blasphemer with his string of profanity and terms of abuse, the temple pilgrim offering his one gift, the village judge and the jailer, the local ruffian swift to strike, the king's man or garrison officer who compels the peasant to carry his baggage or to yield up his own cloak, the sinner's field wet with the same rain that falls on his righteous neighbor's, the local tax collector, the birds of the air and the lilies of the field, the child asking to be fed, the fruitful trees and the unfruitful, the wise and foolish house - builders.

For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly; and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly; and delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked (for that righteous man, dwelling among them, tormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds) then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment, and especially those who walk according to the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise authority.

2Pe 2:7 But God also rescued Lot out of Sodom because he was a righteous man who was sick of the shameful immorality of the wicked people around him.

You're a self - righteous moron who gets a certain joy out of thinking that you are something «holier» than the rest of the people.

If what you interpret Paul as saying is that before creating all the myriad galaxies and star systems God decided that They would put some humans on the third planet from an insignificant star on a little arm of a middling galaxy and that the first hominids chosen role would be to perform pretty much to spec and do something silly and rebellious (arguably without sufficient information as to consequences for themselves and their off spring, oh, and for serpents) and cause affront to the tripartite godhead warranting separation of Gods grace from all their offspring; then we are left with people being chosen from way back before the Big Bang to do some terrible things like killing babies or betraying Jesus who was chosen on the same non date (time didn't exist before creation) to die in a fairly nasty fashion and thereby appease the righteous wrath of himself and his fellow Trinitarians by paying a penalty as a substitute for all future sins (of believers?)