How To Use Righteousness In A Sentence

People in the world of health and medicine sometimes become carried away by the obvious rightness or righteousness of their cause.
Christ not only died for the sins of His sheep on the Cross but he established their righteousness through His perfect obedience to God's Law.
One can further continue the associations with the contrasts of righteousness and wrongdoing, life and death and the like.
Our challenge is to be cautious not to take on a tone of self-righteousness and insensitivity to those whose policies we critique.
The righteousness of saints, both imputed and implanted, is the fine linen, clean and white, with which the bride, the Lamb's wife, is arrayed, Rev. xix. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)

It tries to gain advantages before God and obtain righteousness through a supposedly better life with more divine occupations and more heavenly thoughts.
He will bring forth your righteousness as the light And your judgment as the noonday.
No respect for the rule of law, utter narcissism, absolutely untrustworthy to anyone close to them who trusts them (the Clinton/Edwards tradition), unlimited ability to pursue public policies leading to disaster if it provides the ability to pander to their ultra-left donors - all wrapped around with endless self righteousness. Spitzer considering Senate run? …No, really? - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
He's articulate, succinct and speaks with a quiet righteousness.
Was Deming infused with a sense of self-righteousness?
Cheney is the most pathetic of human beings: he is a fearmonger who preaches righteousness, when all along he preys upon the feeble minds that believe in him. Cheney: Obama pretending we are not at war
Not so much a case of red mist as a fog of righteousness. Times, Sunday Times
The path to righteousness is paved with selfless acts. Times, Sunday Times
All of us, at some time, have been poor in spirit or have been hungry and thirsty for righteousness.
Justice consists in righteousness, reasonableness and fairness. The sense of justice influences and controls human behavior. Dr T.P.Chia
She would tell of the sadistic punishment wrought unto the unbelievers by the just who trusted in her righteousness.
But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!
We might express a just surprise that Catholics should be offended at the doctrine that the righteousness of Christ is imputed, that is, reckoned or counted, to the sinner as his own. Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation
Both sides in the dispute have been adopting a tone of moral righteousness.
Bringing a child that she and Nelson had created into a world of war, famine, death, and unrighteousness did not sound like something Geneva wished to do.
Unrighteousness is unto sin; the sinful acts confirm and strengthen the sinful habits; one sin begets another; it is like the letting forth of water, therefore leave it before it be meddled with. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
I thank you that you forgive and cleanse me of all unrighteousness, and that you restore the joy of my salvation!
He then that suffers for righteousness 'sake, as he suffers for that which is good as to the matter of it, and as he suffers for that which is good, after that manner as becomes that truth for which he suffereth; so he that thus suffereth, suffereth by the order and designment of God. Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02
All things are otherwise in the imputation of his righteousness unto us, which respects us absolutely, and not under a temporary capacity, abides with us for ever, changes our state and relation unto God, and is an effect of superabounding grace. The Doctrine of Justification by Faith
But people's moral righteousness is tuned up by a most unholy trinity: sex, nationalism and empire.
The Scriptures teach righteousness and holiness of conduct.
In Isa 59: 17, "righteousness" is His breastplate. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Both sides in the dispute have been adopting a tone of moral righteousness.
The Persian array was a vast conglomeration of incohesive elements, imposing in aspect but weak in determined battle: the army which Bragg was to meet was composed of patriotic volunteers, every man impelled by a thorough belief in the righteousness of his cause. Reminiscences of the Civil War
His combustible persona waxed hot against those he saw as enemies of righteousness and justice, attracting true believers to its incandescence.
He appeared not to care, and worse, preached self-righteousness without knowing why.
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they will be filled. Beat Stress
The song's P.C. righteousness makes me want to force Ms. DiFranco to listen to Warren Zevon's ode to automatic weaponry "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner" a couple of dozen times and then give her a monographed Glock. Ben Harper, The Surfers' Choice
They must pay for these classes and take whiz quizzes to make sure they remain on the path of righteousness and not recidivate back into the dangerous world of marijuana abuse. The War on Sense
This self-righteousness, this bilious holier-than-thou attitude not only amazes me, it saddens me quite a bit too.
So they can escape the righteousness of God, which they have provoked, they regard not their unanswerableness unto his holiness, whereby they are polluted. Pneumatologia
Our allegiance must be to a transcendent God whose righteousness and mercy are both beyond our understanding.
Rev. Coffin replied, Mr. President, it is up to us to proclaim that 'Justice shall roll down like waters and righteousness like an everflowing stream. President Barack Obama
Hoping to successfully merge daffiness with doctrine, it has a lot to say about censorship and self-righteousness.
At times this approached a rankling self-righteousness, but generally his contemporaries saw him as reserved, gentle, and charitable.
Thus, in the immediate context Paul is teaching that God imputes righteousness by faith in Christ apart from works.
They also emphasize the strength of their case and its righteousness as well as the impossibility of any movement from the position they are declaring. Personnel Management: A New Approach
Now this morning he offers you his robe of righteousness that you might wear it and become spotless and clean and holy and acceptable in his eyes. Christianity Today
Animalism had yieded to fanaticism and the bold , roving eye now gleamed with a ferocious righteousness.
No, it is as if these arguments have never been uttered before and have the full force of moral righteousness even though it is, to our eyes, infuriatingly absurd.
To all the obsessed foodies of the nation, fretting over the choice between Malpeque and bluepoint oysters for the stuffing, the Rev. Ed Miller of St. John's Episcopal Church in McLean, Va., has a word of advice, and it comes from Matthew 6: 31-33: "Therefore do not worry, saying 'what shall we eat?' or 'what shall we drink?' ... but seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness. Rites Of Comfort
He uses the word righteousness eleven times in this one chapter, so he’s really driving home that point. EVERY OTHER MONDAY
Or, "I came not to call the righteous," that is, the feignedly righteous, those who boasted of their righteousness as the Pharisees, but those that owned themselves sinners. Catena Aurea - Gospel of Matthew
His righteousness, that is, his almsgiving, endureth for ever. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
Our acquitment, in true, evangelical justification, is by absolution or pardon of sin; here, by a vindication of our own righteousness. The Doctrine of Justification by Faith
Not so much a case of red mist as a fog of righteousness. Times, Sunday Times
Brown vertical trunks absorbed the righteousness of the fields and shot heavenward like sacred pillars of an ancient pagoda.
It stresses throughout the narrow line separating righteousness from self-righteousness, and admonishes believers to be humble in the knowledge that no person nor even any creed can claim to have the full truth.
Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness, sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Avoid self - righteousness like the devil -- nothing is so self - blinding.
Apocalypse, holiness and filthiness would not be spoken of abstractedly, that is, apart from holy and _filthy_ persons, and in like manner righteousness and unrighteousness would not be mentioned apart from their necessary {117} antecedents, _personal_ righteous and unrighteous _deeds_. An Essay on the Scriptural Doctrine of Immortality
To assert and justify a thing which you call inward, real righteousness and holiness. Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02
The path to righteousness is paved with selfless acts. Times, Sunday Times
You have been intimidated by their moralising self-righteousness, brow-beaten by their puritanical spartanism, seduced by their appointment-diary ethics.
These three events together, the Unwitting Thief, the Summers parody, and the Gore parody, point to a peculiar vacuum of confidence in the middle years of the last decade -- they also happen to be the time McEwan wrote Saturday, and it is not too much to claim that the fatal flaw in that book was a certain pompousness toward Western righteousness. Anis Shivani: Why American Reviewers Disliked Ian McEwan's "Solar": And What That Says About the Cultural Establishment
Not so much a case of red mist as a fog of righteousness. Times, Sunday Times
After Paul addressed the religious zeal of his audience, he concluded his talk with these words, “The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent, because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead” (Acts 17. 30-31). Archive 2009-06-01
It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Not because he was the "father of the faithful," forsook home and country for the truth's sake, was the most eminent preacher and practiser of righteousness in his day; nay, verily, for all this he gets faint praise; but then he had "SERVANTS BOUGHT WITH MONEY!!! The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
Page 166 when the notion of sacerdotalism is scattered from before his clouded vision, when transmitted ethnic fetichism is eradicated from his religion, and the virility of his nature, bared of empty forms of righteousness, is breathed upon by the spirit of God himself. The American Negro: What He Was, What He Is, and What He May Become: A Critical and Practical Discussion
As he treats of sin, righteousness, and a judgment to cyme, and holds up as sacrifice for sin and a mediator for man the crucified Lord, every heart becomes softened, sinners go by tens and by scores to the anxious seat; Christians become aroused; fear and shame are lost, and all in some way join in the work. One of the wonders of the age, or, The life and times of Rev. Johnson Olive, Wake County, North Carolina,
His life is taken as the perfect example for all to follow, and his teaching the only sure guide to righteousness.
He was bountiful to the poor and like a father to widows, and with benignity guided his people ever to righteousness, and controlled the violent, and lived happily in the true faith.
For there is but one vineyard, since there is also but one righteousness, and one dispensator, for there is one Spirit of God who arranges all things; and in like manner is there one hire, for they all received a penny each man, having [stamped upon it] the royal image and superscription, the knowledge of the Son of God, which is immortality. ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
Ah, it is little short of a sin to encage a wild bird, beating its heart against the bars of its narrow cage, when the sun calls it to mount up with quivering ecstasy to the gates of day; but what a sin to bind the preacher of righteousness, and imprison him in sunless vaults -- what an agony! John the Baptist
Honesty makes better people and creates human relationships based on trust, integrity, righteousness and altruism. Dr T.P.Chia
Now he went forth this day to his garden, to refresh himself amongst its trees and pluck the ripe fruits, when this young man slew him wrongously and swerved from the road of righteousness; wherefore we demand of thee the retribution of his crime and call upon thee to pass judgement upon him, according to the commandment of Allah. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Now they called alms by the name of righteousness, in that the Fathers of the Traditions taught, and the common people believed, that alms conferred very much to justification. From the Talmud and Hebraica
For he created all things that they might have being; and the generative powers of the world are healthsome, and there is no poison of destruction in them, nor hath Hades royal dominion upon earth: for righteousness is immortal. Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature
It reads: ‘Sow for ourselves righteousness, reap the fruit of unfailing love and break up your unplowed ground.’
The self righteousness of the politicians in their reactions to the outburst is pretty sad. (Updated): Wilson's opponent raises more than $500K
Buy" does not imply that we can, by any work or merit of ours, purchase God's free gift; nay the very purchase money consists in the renunciation of all self-righteousness, such as Laodicea had (Re 3: 17). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
It should be possible to pillory the defensive self-righteousness and racism of some – not all – Israelis without being called antisemitic. Letter: Proportionate play
During this period he is urged to earn an honest living and follow righteousness.
And then there's "All our righteousness is as dirty rags ... Gay Marriage: No Dissent Allowed
I would have more hopes of ye if you'd stood up fair and square for the bad things you believe in; there'd be some chance of convertin 'you to righteousness; but you're like the Lacedamonians the' postle talks of. The Day of The Cyclone
In the Sermon on the Mount the benediction is pronounced upon the "poor in spirit" and those who "hunger and thirst after righteousness" (Mt 5: 3, 6). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
The reason that “sicklist” prayers are so sickly is that they do not often truly “hunger and thirst for righteousness.” yet at the same time they are appropriate, for a longing for Shalom, a longing for peace, includes the holistic restoration of all that was lost in the fall, including physical illness and infirmaties. Uncommon Prayer – Grasping for the Wind
He is a good-mannered hypocrite whose tedious righteousness has driven his beloved wife away.
Put another way, how exactly do you propose that we should move beyond what you call righteousness? Kafila
And if so, what follows? but that thy righteousness is more, and has been done in a fuller spirit than ever were thy sins: but thus to insinuate is to insinuate a lie; for there is no man, but while he is a sinner, sinneth with a more full spirit, than any good man can act righteousness withal. Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02
The one thing that is wrong with this world is its terrible state of unrighteousness.
She felt a superficial moral righteousness and a profound fear about her own boredom.
He shall convert my soul: And bring me forth in the paths of righteousness.
Now this morning he offers you his robe of righteousness that you might wear it and become spotless and clean and holy and acceptable in his eyes. Christianity Today
Even 'brokenness'; even the behaviour of the 'Biblical Man' – if these proceed from the adoption of a point of view, of a method, of a system, or of a particular kind of behaviour, by which men distinguish themselves from other men – are no more than the righteousness of men '. Archbishop's Presidential Address
It acquired a kind of summery power after what I'd seen: The missing acknowledgement of evil by the three monkeys, the frog the snow turned into a victim, the infantilizing principle of the giant Mom, the feline predator on trial, Moby Dick retold in bronze, eyes whiter and colder with traces of demonic righteousness overturned remember those interpreters than the sculptor intended. Allan M. Jalon: Arts Lust: The Otterness Blizzard
'Hunger and thirst after righteousness' -- I do desire it -- I do not '_hunger and thirst_.' Hills of the Shatemuc
Instead, she was El-Soo, daughter of Klakee-Nah, a chief, and she lived in the Holy Cross Mission where were no artists, but only pure-souled Sisters who were interested in cleanliness and righteousness and the welfare of the spirit in the land of immortality that lay beyond the skies. The Wit of Porportuk
It was not, perhaps, mission work in the ordinary sense any more than much of Dr. Livingstone's work was missionary work, but it was an effort to break down the conditions that perpetuated wrong and dispeace, and to introduce the forces of righteousness and goodwill. Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary
This plays well with the neutered pseudo-left, as it has the requisite touch of platitudinal righteousness. Race Denial at its Finest « Lean Left
The Kshatriya, conversant with duties, that upholds righteousness when it is trespassed against, does not, by that act, become a sinner, for the wrath of the assailant justifies the wrath of the chastiser. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
It could hardly be said that the relations were entirely harmonious between the military-minded rector, who held to the righteousness of helotry and the value of ignorance in the class beneath him, and the young curate burning with zeal and oppressed with the desire to put all the crooked things of life straight. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876
We must remember that behind justification by faith is righteousness, which follows from covenant.
It is not a fiction, but a fact, because through faith there is revealed the righteousness of God.
'hallucinated' Magdalens, conducting grand picnics in that 'charming' climate, and making life a May day, is not the world's mighty Deliverer; and his miracle-mongering demagogue, claiming to be the Son of David in lying genealogies, and the Son of God in blasphemous audacity, is not the world's Teacher of all Truth and Righteousness. Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
The good-bye was difficult for Alice, but she was emboldened by the righteousness of the Southern cause.
You would find faith and righteousness arrayed against the forces of darkness and ignorance, tyranny and disbelief.
Waiving humanity, national honor, the claims of gratitude, the precious satisfaction arising from deeds of charity and justice to the weak and defenceless, -- the appeal for impartial suffrage addresses itself with great pertinency to the darkest, coldest, and flintiest side of the human heart, and would wring righteousness from the unfeeling calculations of human selfishness. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue
They are supposed to have been the epitome of self-righteousness and intolerance, a black stain on the history of the Catholic Church in particular and Western civilization in general.
Wherefore discouragement comes from want of light, because they are not skilful in the word of righteousness: for had the discouragement at first been true, which yet it could not be, unless the person knew by name himself under eternal reprobation, which is indeed impossible, then his light would have pinched him harder; light would rather have fastened this his fear, than at all have rid him of it (Heb 5: 12-14). Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02
Sadly this tone of sanctimonious self-righteousness characterises much of the exhibition.
Folks, we will reap what we have sown, and we have sown seeds of immorality and unrighteousness and we are reaping the havoc and consequences of our actions.
In a nutshell, the issue was whether God's righteousness is imputed (thus the Lutherans) or imparted (thus Rome).
Plērōsai nomon is not to make the law perfect; for it was always nomos teleios, — a “perfect law,” James i. 25; but to yield perfect obedience unto it: the same that our Saviour calls plērōsai pasan dikaiosunēn, Matt.iii. 15, “to fulfil all righteousness;” that is, by obedience unto all God’s commands and institutions, as is evident in the place. The Doctrine of Justification by Faith
It is true, their propension unto righteousness reigneth in them, but it is as true their propension unto sin rebelleth in them. The Doctrine of the Saints�� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
During this period he is urged to earn an honest living and follow righteousness.
We just wanted to make everyone aware of this situation, and swing the Cluebat of Janeite Righteousness a little bit, because a site purporting to operate in the name of Jane Austen and her fans should be held to a higher standard of behavior. AustenBlog
Raw organic foodism is especially good for "holy joes," a sort of better-than-everyone-else person who enjoys great self-righteousness by owning this system. How and When to Be Your Own Doctor
Those who, upon their repenting and believing, are, for the sake of Christ's righteousness, acquitted from the guilt of sin and saved from death and hell, which are the wages of sin, are those ransomed of the Lord that shall, in the great day, be brought out of the grave in triumph, and it shall be as impossible for the banks of death to hold them as it was to hold their Master. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
That this righteousness is pleadable unto an acquitment against any charge from Satan, the world, or our own consciences. The Doctrine of Justification by Faith
We lean on the righteousness of Christ for justification.
They erred by seeking the wrong righteousness, not by the act of seeking.
The Bible says in Proverbs 14: 34: ‘Righteousness exalts a nation but sin is a reproach to any people.’
But behold, the sinner now, at the sight and sense of his own nothingness, falleth into a kind of despair; for although he hath it in him to presume of salvation through the delusiveness of his own good opinion of himself, yet he hath it not in himself to have a good opinion of the grace of God in the righteousness of Christ. The Riches of Bunyan
This righteousness is imputed to those who trust in Him.
In deviating from righteousness into sin the "outcry" is an automatic result. Wisdom, Justice And Mercy
They exude the sweet, slightly rotten smell of hypocrisy as everyone takes a position of high dudgeon and righteousness.
He persuaded Americans to believe not only in their power but also in the righteousness of that power.
It is also the time to break up the unplowed ground until the Lord comes and showers righteousness on you.
But it must be taken into consideration that the above postulate is itself a product of Western race-egotism, urged by our belief in our own righteousness and fostered by a faith in ourselves which may be as erroneous as are most fond race fancies. The Yellow Peril
But it is not those who merely get saved that can claim this promise; it is those who _keep saved_ and carry out the principles of the plan of righteousness. Food for the Lambs; or, Helps for Young Christians
Instead, Douglass went on to argue, the "appeal for impartial suffrage" must address itself "to the darkest, coldest, and flintiest side of the human heart" and must "wring righteousness from the unfeeling calculations of human selfishness. Rhetoric of Freedom
They also emphasize the strength of their case and its righteousness as well as the impossibility of any movement from the position they are declaring. Personnel Management: A New Approach
But then fifthly, this righteousness is freely given but was not bought cheaply.
In conclusion, it seems to me that one way to go beyond what you call righteousness - is to find ways to bring affect and structural relationship between the middle class and the the subaltern into the same framework. Kafila
Are you going to be on the side of righteousness or on the whity is our enemy side? Bob Herbert: Blacks Caught In Culture of Failure
For young men living in austere conditions, going out daily to risk their lives, morale is based not on polite subtleties but on a stark belief in their own righteousness, and in the iniquity of the enemy. Five Days in Fallujah
It is no better when it is vented in spiteful and mischievous language: He that utters slander is a fool too, for God will sooner or later bring forth that righteousness as the light which he endeavours to cloud, and will find an expedient to roll the reproach away. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
God, and is profitable for doctrine -- and for instruction in righteousness, that is, in the nature and branches of religion. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
Note, The intention of afflictions is to teach us righteousness; and blessed is the man whom God chastens, and thus teaches, Ps. xciv. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
He again acknowledges the everlasting righteousness of God's word as before (v. 142): The righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting and cannot be altered; and, when it is admitted in its power into a soul, it is there an abiding principle, a well of living water, John iv. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
This belief and teachings (which by the way is referenced somehow to Hilter by the Family's leader), 'allows' them to wallow in narcissism and self righteousness. Poll: Only 3 in 10 have favorable opinion of Ensign
Indian men must shed their moral self-righteousness and acquire a practical sense, a manipulative, this-worldly cunning and aggressiveness.
It is also the time to break up the unplowed ground until the Lord comes and showers righteousness on you.
Though this mammon of unrighteousness is not to be trusted to for a happiness, yet it may and must be made use of in subserviency to our pursuit of that which is our happiness. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
In the enthroned Christ every question about sin is answered, and every claim of a violated law is absolutely met; and though there is no abatement in the demands of the decalogue, yet because "Christ has become the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth," now "_grace reigns through righteousness_ unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord. The Ministry of the Spirit
My views on her actual politics should be easily separable from my views on her worth as an engaged citizen, just as my feelings about the righteousness of her current gaol term should be separable from my views about her political fate.
He drew himself up, his righteousness rippling now like an electric eel. Times, Sunday Times
It is faith in Jesus Christ, whose righteousness has been imputed to us by the free grace of God.
Imperceptible Growth of the word sown in the heart, from its earliest stage of development to the ripest fruits of practical righteousness. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
The cosmic goal of righteousness suggests an eschatological dimension to justification.
That Christ's righteousness can save me, -- that Christ's righteousness alone can save -- these are simple positions, all the terms of which are steady and copresent to my mind. The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
We keep acquiring degenerative diseases from stress and working three jobs; we keep playing the lose/lose "voting machine game"; we keep saying "oh well" to our disappearing heath plans and retirements; and we keep permitting vomitus "religious institutions" (not only in America) to murder in the name of God with nauseating self righteousness. Friends help me out here. Can we "wake up" in time to save ourselves from satanic national/international banker elites?
It allowed the thief, the adulterer, the murderer and the defrauder of the poor to secure forgiveness of his sins by buying his way out of the allegedly purifying flames of Purgatory rather than demanding a radical change of his life to a true "path of righteousness". Father Paul Mayer: The Carbon Tax: A Moral Issue
To turn this statement into theological form it is only necessary to claim that the "perfect man" which the religious instinct is trying to form is "the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ," that that perfect humanity was once realised in the historical Christ, and that the higher instinct within us -- ourselves, yet not ourselves -- which makes for life and righteousness, and is the source of all the good that we can think, say, or do, may (in virtue of that historical incarnation) be justly called the indwelling Christ. Light, Life, and Love : selections from the German mystics of the middle ages
The title's meanings remain only provisionally understood, but the term's significance was bound up in notions of learning, the righteousness of tradition, and the scrupulous observance of ritual obligation.
Self-righteousness is a manifestation of self-contempt.
What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: 21 That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
All of the above attested that God's sacrificial love is a final solution to the eliminate man's sin and bestowment of his righteousness.
Then, when it’s proven once again, we sit back in sanctimonious self-righteousness shocked, absolutely shocked, about humankind’s venality. The Early Word: Obama Meets the Press - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
Righteousness is often costly to the man who keeps to it at all hazards, but in the end it will bear its own expenses and return an infinite profit.
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they will be filled. Beat Stress
Sounds like this is a job for the Cluebat of Janeite Righteousness situation presently taking place involving our friend and fellow Jane-blogger Laurel Ann and her excellent blog AustenBlog
She has the vigorous curiosity of the nineteenth-century autodidact, the brash stamina of the colonial settler, and the unselfconscious righteousness of the imperial missionary.
At the same time, a message of hope was given to those who had sinned - God himself provided them with coats of animal skin, typifying the righteousness of Christ freely given to all who trust in his sacrificial death.
They also emphasize the strength of their case and its righteousness as well as the impossibility of any movement from the position they are declaring. Personnel Management: A New Approach
To close this discourse, I shall only from it obviate a putid calumny cast by the Papists, Quakers, and others of the same confederacy, against the grace of God, upon the doctrine of the free justification of a sinner, through the imputation of the righteousness of Christ: for with a shameless impudence they clamour on all by whom it is asserted, as those who maintain salvation to be attainable through a mere external imputation of righteousness; whilst those so saved are Pneumatologia
God imputes to Christ, makes over to Christ, lays upon Christ our iniquity and our sin and our unrighteousness and our wickedness.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
They also emphasize the strength of their case and its righteousness as well as the impossibility of any movement from the position they are declaring. Personnel Management: A New Approach
Or merely a kind of nonstrategic personal therapy, a massaging of self-righteousness? Archive 2008-08-01
And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies. FROM THE CROSS TO PENTECOST
Anger builds on anger, reinforced by self-righteousness and then becomes an unreasoned rage.
Looks like Armitage is an 11th hour “oops” person to me … you seem to show he doesnt have much in the way of righteousness to be trashing bush … Think Progress » Armitage Fears Bombing Campaign Will ‘End Up Empowering Hezbollah’
Let us listen to the message: 'Being made free from sin, ye became servants unto righteousness; now yield your members servants to righteousness _unto sanctification_.' Holy in Christ Thoughts on the Calling of God's Children to be Holy as He is Holy
I do not mean that all who have written or spoken on the subject had this conception of it, but I believe they who thought truly meant this; they did not suppose that in imputing righteousness there was a kind of figment, a self-deception in the mind of God; they did not mean that by an act of will He chose to consider that every act which Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series
As many Catholics and Anglicans take a trip to church to receive their ashes as a sign of repentance, a growing number of other Christian faiths reject the 40-day season of abnegation and fasting in favour of year-round righteousness.
King's daughter, "all glorious without," all glorious within "--" her clothing of wrought gold "-- resplendent _without_ with the robes of righteousness -- radiant _within_ with the beauties of holiness -- shall be brought" with gladness and rejoicing, "and" enter into the King's palace. Memories of Bethany
Self-constraint and clemency is the principle path to righteousness.
Twenty-five thousand people, armed to the teeth, were ranging the city in utter and ruthless defiance of law and righteousness.
Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.
According to the everlasting laws of righteousness, even the fraudful buyers at less than one per cent of its value are making little or nothing, on account of fierce competition. American Forests
Although Adam was created in the image of his Maker in respect to being endowed with powers of {13} understanding and reasoning, and although he was made capable of learning and doing righteousness, he was not originally _made righteous_, forasmuch as he sinned: but those whom God makes righteous sin no more, because all the works of God are perfect. An Essay on the Scriptural Doctrine of Immortality
The alb, form the Latin word alba, or “white,” is the full-length garment symbolizing our baptismal purity, and the robes of righteousness Christ offers us by his grace. An Instructed Eucharist
To the same purpose we must, therefore, briefly also consider what is usually disputed about our own personal righteousness, with a justification thereon; as also what is called sentential justification at the day of judgment. The Doctrine of Justification by Faith
Justice consists in righteousness, reasonableness and fairness. The sense of justice influences and controls human behavior. Dr T.P.Chia
Holy Spirit to set forth the series of kings of Judah, all four alike, failing in "righteousness," followed at last by the "King," a righteous Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
And he heard their aresouns each gen other as touching birth and righteousness, young Madden maintaining that put such case it were hard the wife to die (for so it had fallen out a matter of some year agone with a woman of Eblana in Horne's house that now was trespassed out of this world and the self night next before her death all leeches and pothecaries had taken counsel of her case). Ulysses
Sure, we have our opinion on the issues, but we don't think we have a monopoly on morality or righteousness.
The LORD render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness; for the LORD delivered thee into my hand to day, but I would not stretch forth mine hand against the LORD's anointed.
Not so much a case of red mist as a fog of righteousness. Times, Sunday Times
It reads: ‘Sow for ourselves righteousness, reap the fruit of unfailing love and break up your unplowed ground.’
True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness. Albert Einstein
But by then the whole pantomime had collapsed under the weight of its own righteousness, and what little of interest they had to say was lost among the catcalling that carried on behind them.
The messianic promise in Isaiah 11: 1-5 promises a king who will judge with righteousness and decide with equity for the meek of the earth.
All unrighteousness is banished from that place.
Even if the right has come under the sway of "daemonic" spirits, has been seduced into believing that evil forces represent the righteousness in whose garb they dress themselves, this has not lessened the power that comes from breaking through the mundane. Thoughts on the Spiritual Condition of America's Leftward Half
The "outcry" is a corruption of righteousness, a twisting of righteousness. Wisdom, Justice And Mercy
Yet I think the continued presence of these wrong doctrines has a baleful and divisive influence in Adventism, causing large segments of the denomination to lurch towards legalism and works righteousness.
We felt so many contradictory things, an involuntary patriotic righteousness, along with a cringing tribal embarrassment. Times, Sunday Times
Anticipatory, that is, the seed whose "fruit," namely, "righteousness," shall be ultimately reaped, is now "sown in peace. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Honesty makes better people and creates human relationships based on trust, integrity, righteousness and altruism. Dr T.P.Chia
He now thinks of us as righteous because He imputes, that is He gives to us the righteousness of Christ which has been won on the cross. Recently Uploaded Slideshows

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