Sentences with phrase «so unrighteous»

Not exact matches

(Mathew 5:45) you have heard that it was said an eye for an eye, But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45 so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

So if Jesus was going to call the unrighteous to repentance, He needed to hang out with the unrighteous.

«And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when it fails they may receive you into the eternal habitations.»

I want to pursue righteousness but it seems so unattainable in a unrighteous ungodly world.

If so, I'd be asking Jesus for forgiveness for my sins that I knew about and sins that seemed natural because Jesus haters of this world ensure everyone sins and all get blotted out for eternity... not knowing righteous from unrighteous.

For instance, it speaks of the earth and heaven, Lord - men, Hell and heaven, 3 good deeds and by implication its opposite the bad deeds, righteous soul and by implication the unrighteous soul, at the judgment day4; Light - darkness, believers - unbelievers; 5 God - creation; 6 servant - master; 7 Good - evil.8 There also the repetitive emphasis on the otherness of God as in the notions of «the Lord of the Throne of Glory Supreme», 9 «Lord of the Throne of Honor; «10 emphasis on His power «Lord of Power; «11 His reach «The Lord of the two Easts and Two Wests, «12 and so on.

Yet we call him unrighteous for that, so we have already rejected this solution.

[Lev 19:18] But I say to you, love your enemy and pray for those who persecute you, [Luke 6:27; Rom 12:20; Luke 23:34; Acts 7:60; 1Cor 4:13; 1Pet 2:23] so that you may be like your Father in heaven, since he causes the sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be children of your Father in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous.

The unrighteous desperately needs justification by law (or so he thinks) which means by blood.

As for Jeremiah, he plainly universalized and spiritualized Yahweh and so identified him with righteousness that, in the prophet's eyes, to be unrighteous was in itself to «serve other gods.»

Isaiah 55:7 - 9 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts:... For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.