righteousness

Cultivating knowledge and sincerity is also important for one's own sake ; the superior person loves learning for the sake of learning and righteousness for the sake of righteousness.

Yì can be translated as righteousness, though it may simply mean what is ethically best to do in a certain context.

Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also transform themselves into ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.

And he who sat on him was called Faithful and True, and with righteousness he judges and makes war.

In fact, according to Islam, marriage enables one to attain the highest form of righteousness within this sacred spiritual bond.

This allows the Jewish people as a community to strive and fulfill the prophecy " I, the Lord, have called you in righteousness, and will hold your hand and keep you.

Orthodox Judaism deliberately makes it very difficult to convert and become a Jew, and requires a significant and full-time effort in living, study, righteousness, and conduct over several years.

For Sikhs, the word Dharm means the " path of righteousness ".

This concept of asha versus the druj should not be confused with the good-versus-evil battle evident in western religions, for although both forms of opposition express moral conflict, the asha versus druj concept is more systemic and less personal, representing, for instance, chaos ( that opposes order ); or " uncreation ", evident as natural decay ( that opposes creation ); or more simply " the lie " ( that opposes truth, righteousness ).

The resurrection established Jesus as the powerful Son of God and is cited as proof that God will judge the world in righteousness.

In the Epistle to the Romans Paul writes from the point of view of the demonstration of the righteousness of God — his covenant faithfulness and saving justice — in the gospel ; the author of Ephesians writes from the perspective of union with Christ, who is the head of the true church.

He also goes on to say that a righteousness from God has made itself known apart from the law, to which the law and prophets testify, and this righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus to all who believe.

Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.

But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted unto him for righteousness ".

After a total of three years ' probation, newly joining members would take an oath that included the commitment to practice piety towards " the Deity " ( το θειον ) and righteousness towards humanity, to maintain a pure lifestyle, to abstain from criminal and immoral activities, to transmit their rules uncorrupted and to preserve the books of the Essenes and the names of the Angels.

He saw himself as a preacher of righteousness by an appeal to reason, applied frankly and without fear of the magisterium.

The author describes various tests by which readers may ascertain whether or not their communion with God is genuine, and teaches that the proof of spiritual regeneration is a life of active righteousness.

The content of " M " suggests that this community was stricter than the others in its attitude to keeping the Jewish law, holding that they must exceed the scribes and the Pharisees in " righteousness " ( adherence to Jewish law ); and of the three only " M " refers to a " church " ( ecclesia ), an organised group with rules for keeping order.

" When I came to eleven years of age ", he said, " I knew pureness and righteousness ; for, while I was a child, I was taught how to walk to be kept pure.

Dunn states that Josephus positions John as a righteous preacher ( dikaiosyne ) who encourages his followers to practice " righteousness towards one another, and piety towards God " and that Mark 6: 20 similarly calls John " a righteous ( dikaios ) and holy man ".

Divergences between the passage's presentation and the Biblical accounts of John include baptism for those whose souls have already been " purified beforehand by righteousness " is for purification of the body, not general repentance of sin ( Mark 1: 4 ).

It is righteousness taken to the extreme, in that the xia-adherents when righting a wrong would only be answerable only to his / her morality.

M. von Engelhardt has attempted to extend this line of treatment to Justin's entire theology, and to show that his conceptions of God, of free will and righteousness, of redemption, grace, and merit prove the influence of the cultivated Greek pagan world of the 2nd century, dominated by the Platonic and Stoic philosophy.

The doctrine expressed by the term " Limbo of the Fathers " was taught, for instance, by Clement of Alexandria, who maintained: " It is not right that these should be condemned without trial, and that those alone who lived after the coming ( of Christ ) should have the advantage of the divine righteousness.