unrighteousness

• “Now if these powers and gifts do belong to human nature by its constitution, they certainly lay a foundation for responsibility; and all such theorists must either be able to show that the pagan man has made a right use of them, and has walked according to this large amount of truth and reason with which, according to their own statement, he is endowed, or else they consign him, as St. Paul does, to "the wrath of God which is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness, and unrighteousness of _men who hold the truth in unrighteousness_.”

  Sermons to the Natural Man

• “Some communes notitae, some ideas they had of the being of God, and of the difference of good and evil; but they held them in unrighteousness, that is, they knew and professed them in a consistency with their wicked courses.”

  Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)

• “All unrighteousness is sin; and all reigning sin, nay, every actual sin committed deliberately, and not repented of, shuts out of the kingdom of heaven.”

  Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)

• “Note, Those that imprison the truths they know, in unrighteousness”

  Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)

• “Though this mammon of unrighteousness is not to be trusted to for a happiness, yet it may and must be made use of in subserviency to our pursuit of that which is our happiness.”

  Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)

• “Thus they held the truth in unrighteousness, and were partial in the gospel, as well as in the law, of the Old”

  Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)

• “This is holding the truth in unrighteousness, fighting against religion with its own weapons, and turning its own artillery upon itself: thou art willing to own that God is in the height of heaven but thence thou inferrest, How doth God know?”

  Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)

• “He had not stifled his convictions, imprisoned the truth in unrighteousness, nor done any thing to hinder the digestion of this spiritual food and the operation of this spiritual physic.”

  Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)

• “All violence, all unrighteousness, is sin; but it is a great aggravation of the violence if it be done either, 1.”

  Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)

• “1Co 13: 6 Charity does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices in the truth,”

  Charity Begins At Home

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