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- noun Plural form of
righteousness .
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Examples
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All our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf — ISAIAH 64: 6
Gift 2004
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All our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf — ISAIAH 64: 6
Gift 2004
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The old soldier's deliberate judgment of all the noblest deeds of a long life was the realising of the truth that "all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags", and no eye but his own would have looked at them so critically.
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Translate, "bright and pure"; at once brilliantly splendid and spotless as in the bride herself. righteousness -- Greek, "righteousnesses"; distributively used.
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When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he hath committed, he shall die for it.
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But we are all as an unclean [thing], and all our righteousnesses [are] as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
A Real Live Luke 6:42 Moment for Evangelical Christianity « Whatever 2006
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O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies.
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But we are all as an unclean [thing], and all our righteousnesses [are] as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
A Real Live Luke 6:42 Moment for Evangelical Christianity « Whatever 2006
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When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he hath committed, he shall die for it.
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O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies.
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