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

Jesus said: You make yourselves look righteous to other people. God knows your hearts. The things considered of great value by people are worth nothing in God's sight.

This is the ACCOUNT OF NOAH. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. He walked with God.

Jehovah said to Noah: Go into the ark, you and your whole family. For I have found you righteous in this generation.

Abram was ninety-nine years old. Jehovah appeared to him and said: I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless.

A man named Job lived in Uz. He was a man of integrity! He was decent, he respected God, and he stayed away from evil.

Truly I know it is so, but how can a man be righteous before God?

Are we Jews in any better condition than the people of the nations? Not at all! I have already shown that Jews and the people of the nations are all under the power of sin.

as touching zeal, persecuting the church; as touching the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.

For we also once were foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

Walking

As for you, if you will walk 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;

Jehovah, Please remember how I have walked before you in faithfulness and truth. And consider my whole heart devoted to you. I have done what is good in your eyes. Hezekiah wept bitterly.

I will not be ashamed when I look upon all your commandments.

Paul looked straight at the Council and said: Fellow Israelites! My conscience is perfectly clear about the way in which I have lived before God to this very day.

I exercise myself always, to have a conscience void of offense toward God and toward men.

Now I praise you, brothers, because you remember me in all things, and carefully follow the teachings (precepts) (doctrine) just as I delivered them to you.

This is our pride and testimony of conscience. In holiness and Godly sincerity we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you. It was not by fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God.

as touching zeal, persecuting the church; as touching the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.

For the grace (divine influence) of God has been revealed, bringing salvation to all men,

We know that we know him, when we obey his commandments.

My little children let no man deceive you! He who practices righteousness is righteous, even as he [Christ] is righteous.

General references

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

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

I am Jehovah your God! You must obey my teachings.

Be careful to do all the statutes and judgments I present to you today.