Luke 1:6

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Summary

Luke 1:6

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

Righteous

Walking

General references

Bible References

Righteous

And he said, You take care to seem right in the eyes of men, but God sees your hearts: and those things which are important in the opinion of men, are evil in the eyes of God.

These are the generations of Noah. Noah was an upright man and without sin in his generation: he went in the ways of God.

And the Lord said to Noah, Take all your family and go into the ark, for you only in this generation have I seen to be upright.

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord came to him, and said, I am God, Ruler of all; go in my ways and be upright in all things,

There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. He was without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil.

Truly, I see that it is so: and how is it possible for a man to get his right before God?

What then? are we worse off than they? In no way: because we have before made it clear that Jews as well as Greeks are all under the power of sin;

In bitter hate I was cruel to the church; I kept all the righteousness of the law to the last detail.

For in the past we were foolish, hard in heart, turned from the true way, servants of evil desires and pleasures, living in bad feeling and envy, hated and hating one another.

Walking

As for you, if you will go on your way before me, as David your father did, uprightly and with a true heart, doing what I have given you orders to do, keeping my laws and my decisions;

O Lord, keep in mind how I have been true to you with all my heart, and have done what is good in your eyes. And Hezekiah gave way to bitter weeping.

Then I would not be put to shame, as long as I have respect for all your teaching.

And Paul, looking fixedly at the Sanhedrin, said, My brothers, my life has been upright before God till this day.

And in this, I do my best at all times to have no reason for shame before God or men.

Now I am pleased to see that you keep me in memory in all things, and that you give attention to the teaching which was handed down from me to you.

For our glory is in this, in the knowledge which we have that our way of life in the world, and most of all in relation to you, has been holy and true in the eyes of God; not in the wisdom of the flesh, but in the grace of God.

In bitter hate I was cruel to the church; I kept all the righteousness of the law to the last detail.

For the grace of God has come, giving salvation to all men,

And by this we may be certain that we have knowledge of him, if we keep his laws.

My little children, let no man take you out of the true way: he who does righteousness is upright, even as he is upright;

General references

And after the birth of Methuselah, Enoch went on in God's ways for three hundred years, and had sons and daughters:

And when his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham made him undergo circumcision, as God had said to him.

But you are to be guided by my decisions and keep my rules, and be guided by them: I am the Lord your God.

And you are to take care to keep all the laws and the decisions which I put before you today.