Dtr1 saw Israel's history as a contrast between God's judgement on the sinful northern kingdom of Jeroboam I ( who set up the golden calves to be worshiped ) and virtuous Judah, where faithful king David had reigned and where now the righteous Josiah was reforming the kingdom.

Tradition, however, maintains that Hezekiah was a righteous man and that the turbulence increased after Hezekiah's death.

If you know that he ( God ) is just ( righteous ), know that everyone also who does what is just ( righteous ) has been born of him.

" Good ", for example, can mean " useful " or " functional " ( That's a good hammer ), " exemplary " ( She's a good student ), " pleasing " ( This is good soup ), " moral ( a good person versus the lesson to be learned from a story ), " righteous ", etc.

In most denominations, Heaven is a place of everlasting reward for the righteous to go after they die.

" When Jesus the Christ, who is the Word and the Bread of Life, comes a second time, the righteous will be raised incorruptible and will be taken in the clouds to meet their Lord.

It is revealed as the scene of an extensive missionary effort by righteous spirits to redeem those still in darkness-a spirit prison or " hell " where the spirits of the dead remain until judgment.

The Catholic conception of the afterlife teaches after the body dies, the soul is judged, the righteous and free of sin enter Heaven.

In order for one to achieve proper, firm and healthy Iman one must practice righteous deeds or else his level of Iman chokes and shrinks and eventually can wither away if one does not practice Islam long enough, hence the depth of practicing Islam is good deeds.

Zoroastrianism states that for the righteous souls, a beautiful maiden, which is the personification of the soul's good thoughts, words and deeds, appears.

* Arminianism is Pelagian ( or Semi-Pelagian ), denying original sin and total depravity – No system of Arminianism founded on Arminius or Wesley denies original sin or total depravity ; both Arminius and Wesley strongly affirmed that man's basic condition is one in which he cannot be righteous, understand God, or seek God.

For example, the Hindu deity of Ganesh is represented as having the head of the elephant, thereby symbolizing that the fruit of righteous worships is abundance

One example is the Kosala Samyutta, in which King Pasenadi, a righteous king favored by the Buddha, learns of an impending attack on his kingdom.

In the Qur ' an, Benjamin is referred to as righteous young child, who remained with Jacob when the older brothers plotted against Joseph.

Ezra is appalled at this proof of sin, and prays to God: " O God of Israel, you are righteous!

The contents are correspondingly varied: a confession of sin and a plea to God not to maintain his anger forever ( ch. 63: 7 – 64: 11 ); a poem on the theme that God has no need of a temple because Heaven is his throne and Earth his footstool ( Isaiah 66: 1 – 2 ); verses setting out conditions for admission to the community ; complaints of sin, incompetence and paganism ; and distinctions between the " righteous " and the " sinners ", foreshadowing the categories used in much later Judaism and early Christianity.

Boaz is also spontaneously kind in a way that is both humane and righteous.

The over-riding and oft-asked question asked in the book of Job is, " Why do the righteous suffer?

His speech maintains that Job, while righteous, is not perfect.

when there is incest, inbreeding of castes-so no more caste, adultery, atheism, hatred toward religion, no more dharma ( righteous / religion ), too much sin everywhere -

God sent Abraham and Sarah glad tidings of the birth of a second son, who too would be a righteous prophet like Ishmael.

Dropping the sword, Cao Cao laughed, " I, too, know Wenyuan ( Zhang Liao's style name ) to be loyal and righteous.

Bold and righteous as it was, it proved too daring for most of the English gentry, who failed to lend it their support, " feebly, but not without some expectation, waiting for time to dispatch the evil Queen ".

Historians of the late 18th and early 19th centuries viewed Charles ' death as the result of an aristocratic plot, and Gustav IV Adolf, the king who refused to settle with Napoleon Bonaparte despite the latter's superiority, " identified himself with Charles as the type of righteous man struggling with iniquity " ( Roberts ).

In the Book of Ezekiel, Gabriel is understood to be the angel that was sent to destroy Jerusalem for its wickedness and idolatry during the late Kingdom of Judah, separating the few righteous Jews that would not be destroyed and would be exiled from the majority of wicked ones that would perish there for their iniquities and failure to return.

Various literary figures of the Joseon period hailed from Mungyeong, as did heroes of the resistance against Japanese attacks in the late 16th century ( the local commander Sin Gil-won, 1548 – 1592 ) and of the righteous army movement in the early 20th ( the leader I Gang-nyeon, 1858 – 1908 ).

The righteous will live in heaven for a thousand years ( the millennium ) where they will sit with God in judgment over the unredeemed and the fallen angels.

In the epilogue, God condemns Job's friends for their ignorance and lack of understanding while commending Job for his righteous words, commands them to prepare burnt offerings and reassures them that Job will pray for their forgiveness.

His “ wife ” appears to represent the people of God, for she is dressed in the “ righteous acts of the saints .” As the marriage takes place, there is a great celebration in heaven which involves a " great multitude.

He believed in " the immortality of the spiritual individuality, in a personal permanence after death, in a last order of things, in an eternal, righteous, omniscient and omnipotent God ".

Judaism does not see human beings as inherently flawed or sinful and needful of being saved from it, but rather capable with a free will of being righteous, and unlike Christianity does not closely associate ideas of " salvation " with a New Covenant delivered by a Jewish messiah, although in Judaism Jewish people will have a renewed national commitment of observing God's commandments under the New Covenant, and the Jewish Messiah will also be ruling at a time of global peace and acceptance of God by all people.

As the Kingdom of God described in the New Testament and particularly the Book of Revelation, Heaven is a new or restored earth, a World to Come, free of sin and death, with a New Jerusalem led by God, Jesus, and the most righteous of believers starting with 144, 000 Israelites from every tribe, and all others who received salvation living peacefully and making pilgrimages to give glory to the city.

In Islam, the Qur ' an describes Elijah as a great and righteous prophet of God, and one who powerfully preached against the worship of Ba ' al.

In life, a Sikh always tries to constantly remember death so that he or she may be sufficiently prayerful, detached and righteous to break the cycle of birth and death and return to God.

God pronounces the world " very good ", but it becomes corrupted by the sin of man and God sends a deluge ( a great flood ) to destroy it, saving only the righteous ( Noah ) and his family, from whose seed the world is repopulated.

The righteous dwelling there will enjoy the sight of the heavenly Chayot carrying the throne of God.

Each of the righteous will walk with God, who will lead them in a dance.

He taught that the essence of God can never be known by his creature even in the next life, but that his uncreated energies or operations can be known both in this life and in the next, and convey to the Hesychast in this life and to the righteous in the next life a true spiritual knowledge of God.

The Qur ' an mentions Isaac as prophet and a righteous man of God.

Esoterically speaking, when Jupiter is in Cancer ( which signifies the heart ), and is being influenced by Bṛhaspati ( the teacher of the Gods ), and is directed toward righteous action ( Dharma pāda ) Jupiter is functioning in 100 % exaltation, concerning everything Jupiter represents.

The product of this human-divine encounter is the Torah, the embodiment of God's will revealed pre-eminently to the Jewish people through Moses, the Prophets and the Sages, as well as to the righteous and wise of all nations.

For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.

The theme of the hymns and readings on this Sunday is dedicated to the lessons to be learned from the parable: that righteous actions alone do not lead to salvation, that pride renders good deeds fruitless, that God can only be approached through a spirit of humility and repentance, and that God justifies the humble rather than the self-righteous.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi marshalled his forces and tried to invade the Asian continent through Korea, but was eventually repelled by righteous armies, Korean Army and Navy, and assistance from Ming China.

) He became convinced that the church was corrupt in its ways and had lost sight of what he saw as several of the central truths of Christianity, the most important of which, for Luther, was the doctrine of justification — God's act of declaring a sinner righteous — by faith alone through God's grace.

Muslims believe that the prophet Abraham became the leader of the righteous in his time and it was through him that the people of both Arabia and Israel came.

All other sins may be forgiven through true repentance: shirk speaks of associating partners with God after having received the Divine Guidance, as it is said in the Quran and Hadith that when one submits to God ( i. e. embraces Islam ), their " accounts " ( of sins and righteous deeds used to determine the standing of a person on the Last Day ) are numbered from that moment.

Article 4: Furthermore, it is taught that we cannot obtain forgiveness of sin and righteousness before God through our merit, work, or satisfactions, but that we receive forgiveness of sin and become righteous before God out of grace for Christ ’ s sake through faith when we believe that Christ has suffered for us and that for his sake our sin is forgiven and righteousness and eternal life are given to us ...

Grace, usually dispensed through the sacraments, actually enables believers to become more righteous and worthy through the power of the Holy Spirit, apart from the imputed righteousness belonging to Christ, and to perform good works that contribute to one's salvation.

* " I know that there is no one so righteous that they have not wronged another, financially or physically, through deed or speech.

# Intercession through requesting the righteous people who are alive for dua.

Christians and Muslims revere Lot as a righteous man of God .< ref > 2Peter 2: 7 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: < sup > 8 </ sup > ( For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds ;)</ ref > Jesus is a descendent of Lot through David's great-grandmother Ruth, who is descended from Lot's son Moab.

The endowment is often thought of as a series of lectures where Latter-day Saints are taught about the creation of the world, the events in the Garden of Eden, what happened after Adam and Eve were cast out of the Garden into the telestial world, and the progression of righteous individuals through terrestrial laws to the celestial kingdom and exaltation.

Justification, in Christian theology, is God's act of removing the guilt and penalty of sin while at the same time declaring a sinner righteous through Christ's atoning sacrifice.

Pelagius taught that one became righteous through the exertion of one's will to follow the example of Jesus ' life.

Among the resurrected, the righteous souls receive great glory and return to live with God, being made perfect through the atonement of Christ.

The Church of the Blessed Hope ( CGAF ) rejects the doctrine of the Trinity ; recognizes the Bible as God's revealed word ; teaches that salvation is obtained through hearing, believing, confessing, and obeying the gospel ; and expects the premillennial return and reign of Jesus, in which the righteous and the unjust will be raised, but that those who have not heard the gospel will not be raised from the dead.

The sword was forged from the righteous energy within Jack's father ; it is able to cut through all but the most magically-protected targets and strongest materials.

Though the individual might perish amid the disorders of this world, apocalyptic prophets taught that the righteous person would not fail to attain through resurrection the recompense that was due in the Messianic kingdom or in heaven itself.