Sentences with phrase «righteous suffering»

I could ask my family to give up certain things in the spirit of righteous suffering, but they would ignore me.

He is told at the end by Elihu that the righteous suffer to strengthen them to resist sin and evil.

If God is good, why should the righteous suffer?

Not exact matches

If Christians are wrong, they will only rot in the grave as unbelievers do; but if Christians are right, they will live forever in a painless, righteous world with eternal bodies, while unbelievers suffer forever in torture.

But, if there is a God, and death is not the end, then happiness can be restored to those who wrongfully suffered, and righteous family ties can also be restored.

For this reason, if God, the holiest and most righteous of all, did not withhold grace and mercy from wretched sinners, surely we can not turn around and hold the sins of our parents over their heads, no matter how difficult this may be and no matter how we've suffered.

God may know the depths of the universe, but Job knows he has suffered terribly and that he, a righteous man, did not deserve to suffer.

The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.

Matthew contributes a detail not reported elsewhere (27:19), a warning from Pilate's wife because of a dream in which she had «suffered much» because of «that righteous man.»

Jesus was to be Israel's righteous remnant, a light to the Gentiles, and God's Suffering Servant (Isa 49:6 - 7; cf. Matt 12:18).

Those who have suffered any hurt, loss or oppression within their family must know this: We can and should feel a righteous anger at the corrosive nature of sin on God's creation.

On the other hand, there were other men who disagreed: Tertullian, who believed that the soul would live on forever, that the wicked would suffer misery in proportion to the righteous» reward; St. Augustine, who came up with the doctrines of Original Sin and Predestination (some would be saved, the rest would be damned); and Jerome, who would end up retranslating the Latin Bible into what would become the Latin Vulgate and would twist various scriptures that talked about eonian chastening into teaching eternal torment.

On the principle that has driven him from the start, and that has apparently been supported at every turn by God's response — namely, that the righteous ought not suffer — Abraham might have pressed the case to its logical conclusion: to spare the city for the sake of one righteous man.

He senses that if the city gets judged as a whole, the results for individual city dwellers will not be just, because some righteous will suffer with and for the guilty.

For this reason especially, Abraham insists on learning whether the righteous must suffer with the wicked.

And he (at least tacitly) accepts that politics — the life of cities — necessarily involves the suffering of at least some innocent and righteous people.

Some of us look forward with great eagerness and expectation for when Jesus will come again to throw off the evil governments and set up His own righteous rule, but not before He slays our enemies, kills the wicked, bathes the world in bloodshed, burns away all those who did not follow Him, and banishes the unrighteous into pits of never - ending fire to suffer and burn for all eternity.

And so we can celebrate the suffering of the egregiously evil who hate God, for it is they, and not their sins, that are ultimately to blame: «The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance....

I think it is pretty clear that Jesus teaches our righteous acts do not produce favor with God or help us avoid suffering.

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.

Cyprian says that righteous had suffered from the foundation of the world itself.

This is Deutero - Isaiah's «suffering servant of the Lord,» the righteous man who suffers for the sake of God.

«For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, in order to bring you to God» (1 Pet.

But Jeremiah wondered why God allowed individual wicked men to prosper while individual righteous men suffered.

We do right by each other and right by our community because it's the good and righteous thing to do, not because we suffer the burden of guilt hung on us by some religious text.

But since He loves us so much, He sent His Son Jesus to suffer and die in our place, so that all that «righteous» rage can get poured out on Jesus instead of on us.

Jesus came not for «the righteous» but the sick and suffering... or..

This sense of alienation and longing is hinted at in other religious traditions: in Buddhism's attempt to escape the cycle of suffering, for example, or in Islam's description of paradise, where the righteous «shall have all that they desire.»

He believed that Paul's interpretation of grace as justification and sanctification were «closely related to Jesus» insistence that the righteous are not righteous before the divine judgment; and to his conception of the suffering Messiah as a revelation of the justice and mercy of God.

This not only paints a vivid picture of a righteous man being unjustly put to death, but it declares it to be all part of a divine plan, for the man suffers vicariously for the sins of others.

The increasingly vigorous and sometimes almost violent running dialogue between Job and the three friends seems to center in the tension between the proposition of a just and righteous God and the fact of innocent suffering.

103:3 — Except those who believe and do righteous good deeds, and recommend one another to the truth (i.e. order one another to perform all kinds of good deeds (Al - Ma «ruf) which Allah has ordained, and abstain from all kinds of sins and evil deeds (Al - Munkar) which Allah has forbidden), and recommend one another to patience (for the sufferings, harms, and injuries which one may encounter in Allah's Cause during preaching His religion of Islamic Monotheism or Jihad, etc.).

When God is forced to punish a collectively bad society, the righteous minority in that society will also suffer.

2) God gave those around the righteous real free will, and hence they can make us suffer.

When Moshiach arrives there will be no more war suffering or sickness for all the good people (righteous gentiles who follow seven Noachide laws) equal to jews....

Christ died for the righteous and the unrighteous, therefore the Christian must be prepared to suffer for the right (3:17, 18).

When he was reviled and threatened, he suffered by committing himself to a higher judge who is righteous.

This created problems for the Orthodox delegates at the Council of Florence in 1444 and it was agreed that the fire could be dropped as part of a quid pro quo, with the Greeks agreeing to some suffering; with the truly righteous being immediately beatified.

Jefferson in his many words is todays paul by basically testifying to a lost society by preaching «The heart «that is what God wants not the shell which will rott away.I can stand with this truth until the day I die because I also have had disagreements in my church about this same topic.I dispise religion and encourage salvation which come from having a relationship with Jesus.Many may ask how do i have a relationship with him?by simply asking God through prayer, not what we know as pray but simply given up and telling God he win.That is what being righteous means saying «lord your're right and i will believe and obey that.Last i will like to thank jefferson for this clip, becuase for so long I have been feeling like todays churches in not like the first churches.They are stuck into their four cornered walls preaching to those who already obtain the word and people who already think they are perfect, but what about the weak and the sinners who we are suppose to love, go after, preach to, help and deliver the same way as Christ camed for the sinners so do we also be like him.Jefferson basically telling all us young people and old no matter who have suffered in the world, the church, or no matter what party or the past that there is hope and «God wants that person» not the sin but the person.Jefferson wants us to know that God can become personal with us and we do exist or can exist in the christian world not because we are perfect but because «he is perfect and he saw our broken spirits and rescued us!

Then a great historical archetype arises: the suffering servant, the persecuted righteous, Socrates, Jesus....

And without the supplications in the psalms concerning suffering, would the plaint of the righteous also find the path to invocation, even if it must lead to contestation and recrimination?

Some will be found «righteous» and be rewarded with eternal life and some will be found «unrighteous» and will suffer the SECOND DEATH.

Only so, in his opinion, could the justice of God have been maintained, for how could a righteous deity permit a people so to suffer if they did not deserve it?

Although Christ was filled with the form of God and rich in all good things, so that he needed no work and suffering to make him righteous and saved (for he had all this eternally), yet he was not puffed up by them and did not exalt himself above us and assume power over us, although he could rightly have done so; but, on the contrary, he so lived, laboured, worked, suffered, and died that he might be like other men and in fashion and in actions be nothing else than a man, just as if he had need of all these things and had nothing of the form of God.

The writer of 1 Peter seems to know why: «For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, in order to bring you to God.»

11After he has suffered, he will see the light of lifed and be satisfiede; by his knowledgef my righteous servant will justify many, and he will bear their iniquities.

For Christ also SUFFERED ONCE FOR SINS, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God

God was having to face a decision on whether He would let mankind suffer for our own sin, or if He would take all that sin and pour it out upon His one and only, perfectly righteous, everlasting Son.

By his sufferings and death Jesus satisfied the righteous judgment of God and took upon himself the punishment for sin that man deserved.

This goes to the heart of purpose of human creation, Allah says that humans will be tested through losing their wealth and loved ones and personal sufferings in the same way when they are tested by having wealth and children's so we can see who was the most patient and righteous at the end so let's not blame God for all evils a human being is able to commit.