The righteousness of the righteous man will be credited to him, and the wickedness of the wicked will be charged against him.
Not exact matches
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.
Romans 1: 16 For I am not ashamed
of the gospel: for it is the power
of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.17 For therein is revealed a
righteousness of God from faith unto faith: as it is written, But the
righteous shall live by faith.18 For the wrath
of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness
of men, who hinder the truth in unrighteousness; 19 because that which is known
of God is manifest in them; for God manifested it unto them.
Oh, yes, having a
righteous man of God providing for you as you too, learn how to think, comprehend, apply
righteousness in all you do is such a bad thing in your pathetic carnal viewpoint.
Scripture is obviously making a distinction between someone who falls (the
righteous man falls seven times and rises again) and someone who makes a regular practice
of sin because they have no concern for truth or
righteousness and do not want to have Jesus as Lord.
1:17 - 23 17 For in it [the]
righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, «BUT THE
RIGHTEOUS [
man] SHALL LIVE BY FAITH.»
There is a hint here, as in the whole
of Jesus» profound analysis
of self -
righteousness, that the
man who thinks he is
righteous is worse off than the
man who admits his need.
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.
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.
Now that pernicious and pestilent opinion
of man's own
righteousness, which will not be a sinner, unclean, miserable, and damnable, but
righteous and holy, suffereth not God to come to his own natural and proper work.
House
of Cards depicts Sodom without the
righteous men; our Christian imperative is to bring the light
of Christ to any place that lacks
righteousness.
Even the point about what is best for other creatures, which may seem very modern, is not without foundation in Hebrew Scriptures in such passages as the law against taking the hen - bird as well as the eggs from the nest (Deut 22:6), or this saying from Proverbs: «A
righteous man has regard for the life
of his beast» (12:10), where, be it noted, the quality that makes a
man considerate
of his working animals is not prudence or good business sense but «
righteousness,» a point all the more significant when we remember that in the Hebrew Scriptures one
of the marks
of righteousness is not mere evenhandedness but active favor to the weak and deprived.
The
righteous man shall reap the fruit
of his own
righteousness, and the wicked
man the fruit
of his own wickedness.»