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

General references

Bible References

Righteous

And he said to them, "You are the ones who justify themselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts! For [what is] [considered] exalted among men [is] an abomination in the sight of God.

These [are] the generations of Noah. Noah [was] a righteous man, without defect in his generations. Noah walked with God.

Then Yahweh said to Noah, "Go--you and all your household--into the ark, for I have seen you [are] righteous before me in this generation.

When Abram [was] ninety-nine years old Yahweh appeared to Abram. And he said to him, "I [am] El-Shaddai; walk before me and be blameless

[There] was a man in the land of Uz whose name [was] Job. That man was blameless and upright and God-fearing and turning away from evil.

"Truly I know that [it is] so, but how can a human being be just before God?

What then? Do we have an advantage? Not at all. For we have already charged both Jews and Greeks are all under sin,

according to zeal persecuting the church, according to the righteousness in the law being blameless.

For we also were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, enslaved to various desires and pleasures, spending our lives in wickedness and envy, despicable, hating one another.

Walking

As for you, if you walk before me as David your father walked, with {integrity of heart} and with uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, [and if] you keep my ordinances and my judgments,

"O Yahweh, please remember how I went about before you in faithfulness and with a whole heart, and [remember] the good that I have done in your eyes." Then Hezekiah {wept bitterly}.

Then I would not be ashamed when I look to all your commands.

And looking intently at the Sanhedrin, Paul said, "Men [and] brothers, I have lived my life in all good conscience before God to this day."

{For this reason} also myself {always} do my best to have a clear conscience toward God and people.

Now I praise you that you remember me [in] all [things], and just as I handed over to you the traditions, you hold fast to [them].

For our reason for boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that we conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you, in holiness and purity of motive from God, not in merely human wisdom, but by the grace of God.

according to zeal persecuting the church, according to the righteousness in the law being blameless.

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all people,

And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments.

Little children, let no one deceive you: the one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as that one is righteous.

General references

And Enoch walked with God after he fathered Methuselah three hundred years, and fathered sons and daughters.

And Abraham circumcised Isaac his son [when he was] eight days old, as God had commanded him.

You must {carry out} my regulations, and you must observe my statutes by following them; I [am] Yahweh your God.

and you must diligently {observe} all the rules and the regulations that I [am] setting {before you} {today}."