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 to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts; for that which is highly esteemed among men is detestable in the sight of God.

These are the records of the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man,

blameless in his time; Noah walked with God.

Then the Lord said to Noah, “Enter the ark, you and all your household, for you alone I have seen to be righteous before Me in this time.

Now when Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him,
“I am God Almighty;
Walk before Me, and be

blameless.

There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job; and that man was blameless, upright, fearing God and turning away from evil.

“In truth I know that this is so;
But how can a man be in the right before God?

What then?

Are we better than they? Not at all; for we have already charged that both Jews and Greeks are all under sin;

as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to the righteousness which is in the Law, found blameless.

For we also once were foolish ourselves, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, spending our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

Walking

As for you, if you will walk before Me as your father David walked, in integrity of heart and uprightness, doing according to all that I have commanded you and will keep My statutes and My ordinances,

“Remember now, O Lord, I beseech You, how I have walked before You in truth and with a whole heart and have done what is good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

Then I shall not be ashamed
When I look upon all Your commandments.

Paul, looking intently at the Council, said, “Brethren, I have lived my life with a perfectly good conscience before God up to this day.”

In view of this, I also do my best to maintain always a blameless conscience both before God and before men.

Now I praise you because you remember me in everything and hold firmly to the traditions, just as I delivered them to you.

For our proud confidence is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and godly sincerity, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you.

as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to the righteousness which is in the Law, found blameless.

For the grace of God has appeared,

bringing salvation to all men,

By this we know that we have come to know Him, if we keep His commandments.

Little children, make sure no one deceives you; the one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous;

General references

Then Enoch walked with God three hundred years after he became the father of Methuselah, and he had other sons and daughters.

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

You are to perform My judgments and keep My statutes, to live in accord with them; I am the Lord your God.

and you shall be careful to do all the statutes and the judgments which I am setting before you today.