enow.com Web Search

  1. Ad

    related to: jesus has made us righteous

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Matthew 3:15 - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_3:15

    it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him. The World English Bible translates the passage as: But Jesus, answering, said to him, "Allow it now, for this is the fitting way for us to fulfill all righteousness." Then he allowed him. The 1881 Westcott-Hort Greek text is: αποκριθεις δε ο ιησους ειπεν ...

  3. Matthew 5:45 - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_5:45

    In calling us to this then, He calls us to His likeness, for He saith, He maketh His sun to rise on the righteous and the unrighteous. By the sun we may understand not this visible, but that of which it is said, To you that fear the name of the Lord, the Sun of righteousness shall arise; (Mal. 4:2.) and by the rain, the water of the doctrine of ...

  4. Imputed righteousness - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imputed_righteousness

    It is believed by the heads of the church that he is righteous, and has been made righteous, who is acquainted with the truths of faith from the doctrine of the church and from the Word, and consequently is in the trust and confidence that he is saved through the Lord's righteousness, and that the Lord has acquired righteousness by fulfilling ...

  5. Matthew 5:20 - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_5:20

    Augustine: Otherwise, unless your righteousness exceed the righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees, that is, exceed that of those who break what themselves teach, as it is elsewhere said of them, They say, and do not; (Mat. 23:3.) just as if He had said, Unless your righteousness exceed in this way that ye do what ye teach, you shall not ...

  6. Righteousness - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Righteousness

    Righteousness is not that you turn your faces to the east and the west [in prayer]. But righteous is the one who believes in God, the Last Day, the Angels, the Scripture and the Prophets; who gives his wealth in spite of love for it to kinsfolk, orphans, the poor, the wayfarer, to those who ask and to set slaves free.

  7. Justification (theology) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justification_(theology)

    When God's righteousness is mentioned in the gospel, it is God's action of declaring righteous the unrighteous sinner who has faith in Jesus Christ. [60] The righteousness by which the person is justified (declared righteous) is not his own (theologically, proper righteousness) but that of another, Christ, (alien righteousness). "That is why ...

  8. Matthew 5:17 - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_5:17

    Matthew 5:17 is the 17th verse of the fifth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament and is part of the Sermon on the Mount.One of the most debated verses in the gospel, this verse begins a new section on Jesus and the Torah, [1] where Jesus discusses the Law and the Prophets.

  9. Active obedience of Christ - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_obedience_of_Christ

    The imputation of Christ's active obedience has its foundation in the idea of a covenant of works made with Adam, though this has been the subject of debate, since covenantal language is not employed until the Noahic covenant in Genesis 6. Machen argues that "if Christ had merely paid the penalty of sin for us and done nothing more we should be ...

  1. Ad

    related to: jesus has made us righteous