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righteous - use in sentences
Converse of object
- declare: Give thanks From v20 those who are declared righteous can have access to God.
- justify: One day He will return in judgment, to condemn the wicked and justify the righteous.
- call: The sheep, in Jesus ' imagery, are those he calls the righteous - those who are in the right with God.
- appear: To quote the Bible: Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
Modifies a noun
- indignation: They are able to hide behind righteous indignation caused by the above practice.
- availeth: The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
- anger: We're going to inspire our audience with a righteous anger.
- wrath: For where they had come once, they would come again, next time in greater numbers, afire with righteous wrath.
- deed: Simply righteous deeds, holy deeds, godly deeds, transformed life.
- judgment: Here our Lord commands that we are to " judge righteous judgment, " which is judgment based upon the Word of God.
Modifying Another Word
- perfectly: Justification is not a legal fiction because one day we will be perfectly righteous.
- truly: Ryan has developed a truly righteous card trick, with a slap in the face ending!
Noun used with modifier
- O: Communion Verse: Rejoice in the Lord, O ye righteous; praise is meet for the upright.
- no-one: Indeed, as Romans 3:10 says, " There in no-one righteous, not even one.
- self: Our relationship with the Islamic world, our ability to be self righteous are all transmitted by image.
- ye: Communion Verse: Rejoice in the Lord, O ye righteous; praise is meet for the upright.
- none: For there is none righteous, no not one.
Used with adjective complement
- declare: To be declared righteous by Christ is not to be always in the right.
- account: So also Abraham had been accounted righteous before God made a covenant with him ( Gen.
Preposition: for
- unrighteous: For Christ died for sins, once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God.
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