Luke 1:6

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Luke 1:6

And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.

Righteous

Walking

Bible References

Righteous

And he said to them: You set yourselves forth as righteous before men, but God knows your hearts; for that which is highly esteemed among men, is detestable in the sight of God.

What then? Do we, Jews, excel? Not at all: for we have already convicted all, both Jews and Greeks, of being under sin,

as it respects zeal, persecuting the church; as it respects righteousness which is by law, blameless.

For we ourselves also were formerly foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one an other.

Walking

And Paul, looking earnestly upon the Sanhedrin, said: Brethren, I have lived in all good conscience toward God to this day.

And I do exercise myself in this, always to have a conscience void of offense toward God and man.

Now, I praise you, brethren, because you remember me in all things, and keep the traditions as I delivered them to you.

For the ground of our rejoicing is this: the testimony of our conscience that we have lived in the world more abundantly, indeed, for you in sincerity and godly purity, not in carnal wisdom, but in the grace of God.

as it respects zeal, persecuting the church; as it respects righteousness which is by law, blameless.

For the grace of God, which brings salvation to all men, has appeared,

And by this we know that we do know him, if we keep his commandments.

Little children, let no one deceive you: he that works righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.