Sentences with phrase «true righteousness»
True righteousness refers to genuinely and consistently doing what is morally right and just, rather than merely pretending or appearing to be righteous. It involves aligning one's actions, thoughts, and intentions with principles of fairness, honesty, compassion, and integrity. It goes beyond external acts and involves a sincere and virtuous character. Full definition
It continues to make us aware of the legitimate demand of true righteousness.
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-- assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus, to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.
And too many conservatives lost the passion for true righteousness while priding themselves on holding on to traditional beliefs.
The apostle Paul writing to the church in Ephesus encouraged them «with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self... and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.»
Of course his is not venerated for his faith, but because he lived a life of true righteousness in daily life.
The conservatives rightly see that Wesley's passionate quest for true righteousness is muted among liberals.
Christians whose politics I disagree with must be carrying a portable Jesus unlike my true righteousness?»
Jesus lived a totally pure life based on love and true righteousness.
Christians believe that this kind of love of neighbor constitutes a true righteousness in terms of which they find themselves to fall short.
One passage that sums it up well is Ephesians 4:22 - 24, in which believers are called, «to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.»
not the righteousness of checking off our little goals, but the true righteousness and purity of God.
One more point of brotherly disagreement: we are meant to be like God in character («in true righteousness and holiness») according to Ephesians 4:24.
How easily we forget that the very heart and texture of the message of Jesus and Paul clashed — head on in many cases — with the piety and morality of the times to show that true righteousness was something entirely given from God to humanity.
«You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.»
You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrüpted by its deceïtful desïres; to be made new in the attïtude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.
The apostles are other examples.We can not BE His examples but it is better to strive toward that goal than to accept anything less than God's standard of true righteousness.