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, Ye are they who justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men, is abomination in the sight of God.

These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man, and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.

And the LORD said to Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark: for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

And when Abram was ninety and nine years old, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said to him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and shunned evil.

I know it to be so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?

What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;

Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; with respect to the righteousness which is by the law, blameless.

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

Walking

And if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes and my judgments:

I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept grievously.

Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect to all thy commandments.

And Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men, brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.

And in this I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offense towards God, and towards men.

Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you.

For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our manner of life in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; with respect to the righteousness which is by the law, blameless.

For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,

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

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

General references

And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:

And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac, being eight days old, as God had commanded him.

Ye shall perform my judgments, and keep my ordinances, to walk in them; I am the LORD your God.

And ye shall observe to do all the statutes and judgments which I set before you this day.