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Righteous
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Righteous names 2 things on this site
- Righteous, a heading of the topical index.A heading of Nave's Topical Bible (1896): every passage it gathers, quoted.
- Righteous and Just, a messianic prophecy.The Messiah would be perfectly righteous.
Featured studies
6 results- StudyThe Righteous One CondemnedA featured study on this subject, with its Scripture, its sources and its figures.
- StudyThe Two WaysPsalm 1 is the gate of the Psalter: a tree planted by water against chaff the wind drives away, and one Hebrew word (derek, 'the way') that decides everything.
- StudyJeremiah: the Study GuideForty years against the fall of Jerusalem: and the deepest promise in the Old Testament, spoken while the siege ramps were rising.
- StudyThe Question of SufferingJob never learns why he suffered. The whirlwind doesn't explain his ordeal: it unveils the One who ordained it. The wager, three wrong answers, the cry for a mediator, and the God who answers who…
- StudyTsade (צ): the Hebrew letterThe fish-hook, carrying righteousness, Zion, and the Branch.
Verses
538 results- VersePsalms 119:137Righteous are You, O LORD, and upright are Your judgments.
- VerseJob 22:19The righteous see it and are glad; the innocent mock them:
- VersePsalms 37:29The righteous will inherit the land and dwell in it forever.
- VersePsalms 4:5Offer the sacrifices of the righteous and trust in the LORD.
- VersePsalms 11:3If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?”
People
2 results- PersonNoahThe righteous 'preacher of righteousness' who found grace and, by faith, built the ark — through whom the race survived the Flood.
- PersonSimeonA righteous and devout man of Jerusalem on whom the Holy Spirit rested, promised he would not die before seeing the Lord's Christ. Taking the infant Jesus in his arms he sings…
Words (Strong's)
5 results- WordH6662 צַדִּיק · tsaddîyq (Hebrew)just. The Hebrew word stands 206 times in the original text.
- WordH6663 צָדַק · tsâdaq (Hebrew)to be (causatively, make) right (in a moral or forensic sense). The Hebrew word stands 41 times in the original text.
- WordG1346 δικαίως · dikaíōs (Greek)equitably. The Greek word stands 5 times in the original text.
- WordG1344 δικαιόω · dikaióō (Greek)to render (i.e. show or regard as) just or innocent. The Greek word stands 38 times in the original text.
- WordG1341 δικαιοκρισία · dikaiokrisía (Greek)a just sentence. The Greek word stands 1 time in the original text.
Themes
9 results- ThemeFaith**Faith across the canon is less a feeling than a transaction: a person trusts what God has said and acts on it before the outcome is visible.** The Old Testament rarely uses…
- ThemeJusticeScripture's justice vocabulary runs on two paired Hebrew terms: *mishpat* (H4941), the right verdict rendered at the city gate — a legal, courtroom word — and *tsedaqah*…
- ThemeSufferingSuffering enters the story at the Fall. Genesis 3 turns childbirth into pain and labor into toil, and the rest of the Old Testament treats hardship as the ordinary texture of…
- ThemeJudgmentJudgment in Scripture is not a stray topic but a load-bearing theme, running from Eden to the lake of fire. It begins with a question, not a threat: Abraham asks whether the…
- ThemeKingdom of God"The kingdom of God" names not a place first but a reign — God's kingly rule breaking in, which then produces a people and a realm who live under it. The storyline starts long…
Topics
3 resultsProphecies
2 resultsVoices
5 results- VoiceJulian of ToledoJulian was born in Toledo about 642, of a Jewish family that had converted to Christianity — a detail his medieval biographer records without embarrassment, and one that…
- VoiceMarcus EremitaMark the Hermit — Marcus Eremita in Latin, Mark the Ascetic in English translations — wrote in Greek in the first half of the fifth century. The record of his life is thin and…
- VoiceMartin LutherMartin Luther was born on November 10, 1483, at Eisleben in Saxony, the son of a copper miner who worked his way up to leasing smelters. His father wanted a lawyer, and Luther…
- VoiceJohn PiperJohn Stephen Piper (born January 11, 1946) is an American Reformed Baptist theologian, pastor, and author. Educated at Wheaton College (B.A. literature, 1968), Fuller…
- VoiceCorrie ten BoomCornelia ("Corrie") Arnolda Johanna ten Boom (April 15, 1892 – April 15, 1983) was a Dutch Christian watchmaker, evangelist, and Holocaust survivor. Born in Amsterdam, raised…
Apocrypha (study resources)
294 results- Study resource2 Esdras 8:57Moreover they have trodden down his righteous,
- Study resourceSirach 18:2The Lord only is righteous, and there is none other but he,
- Study resourceAdditions to Esther 14:7Because we worshipped their gods: O Lord, thou art righteous.
- Study resourceWisdom of Solomon 4:7But though the righteous be prevented with death, yet shall he be in rest.
- Study resourceWisdom of Solomon 10:15She delivered the righteous people and blameless seed from the nation that oppressed them.