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Example sentences for "righteous"

Lexicographically close words:
righd; righdt; right; righte; righted; righteously; righteousness; righteousnesse; righteousnesses; righter
  1. At this result Ra was pleased, and he forgave those who had repented because of their righteous slaughter of his enemies.

  2. Then shall mankind give thee praise, and the righteous (?

  3. That I offer thee these poems, most honourable Sir, is not the ambitious desire to give, but the righteous wish to restore what is due.

  4. The wicked so His watchful ire will learn, And cower 'neath God's avenging countenance stern; The righteous so His love divine will feel With gentle lapse into their bosom steal.

  5. You can only imagine the dignity and glory one must feel as he mingles with the righteous dead of all ages, and gathers from them a glimpse of the trials and triumphs of ten thousand years under the old reign.

  6. The righteous of any world, at death, are suddenly transported to that part of Heaven lying nearest to their world.

  7. All that belonged to the house of Ahab in Israel perished in this hour of vengeance and righteous retribution.

  8. Hatred we hate: but no man should desire A heart too cold to flame with righteous ire.

  9. O cleansing indignation, O flame of righteous wrath, Give me a soul to feel thee and follow in thy path!

  10. You have often thought of the difficulty of reconciling the righteous justice of God with His Fatherly love.

  11. The ungodly shall be judged in Gehenna until the righteous shall say of them, We have seen enough.

  12. The souls of the righteous are in the hands of God, there shall no torment touch them.

  13. They would have said of her what the wicked say of the righteous in the Book of Wisdom, that they would lie in wait for her, because she was ‘clean contrary to their doings, and objected to their infamy.

  14. Nereus still kept his foot on the prostrate youth, still held the dagger in his hand; his eyes still flashed, his whole frame was dilated with righteous indignation.

  15. Verily, God suffereth not the reward of the righteous to perish.

  16. But God holdeth righteous whom He will; and they shall not be wronged the husk of a date stone.

  17. But he who shall come before Him, a believer, with righteous works,-these!

  18. It hath been revealed to me that your God is one only God: let him then who hopeth to meet his Lord work a righteous work: nor let him give any other creature a share in the worship of his Lord.

  19. And whoso maketh efforts for us, in our ways will we guide them: for God is assuredly with those who do righteous deeds.

  20. God verily will not suffer the reward of the righteous to perish!

  21. And who hold fast the Book, and observe prayer: verily, we will not suffer the reward of the righteous to perish.

  22. He potent: Who hath created death and life to prove which of you will be most righteous in deed; and He is the Mighty, the Forgiving!

  23. We bestow our favours on whom we will, and suffer not the reward of the righteous to perish.

  24. But the register of the righteous is in Illiyoun.

  25. This is a warning for those who reflect: And persevere steadfastly, for verily God will not suffer the reward of the righteous to perish.

  26. And we announced Isaac to him-a righteous Prophet- And on him and on Isaac we bestowed our blessing.

  27. We choose rather the centurion's cry, "Certainly this was a righteous man.

  28. The righteous man in their eyes was not he who loved mercy, and did justly, and walked humbly with his God, but he who observed the traditions of the elders.

  29. Book of Proverbs: "The path of the righteous is as the light of dawn, that shineth more and more unto the noon-tide of the day.

  30. Outwardly," said Christ, "ye appear righteous unto men, but inwardly ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

  31. Or listen to Peter's question: "If the righteous is scarcely saved, where shall the ungodly and sinner appear?

  32. From henceforth the righteous man is the Christ-like man.

  33. Rehearse the righteous acts of the Lord.

  34. That be far from thee, to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked.

  35. Were there but one righteous in the world, he would .

  36. Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city.

  37. To treat as if righteous and just; to pardon; to exculpate; to absolve.

  38. He is righteous even in that representative and sponsional person he put on.

  39. Rigid observance of external forms of religion, without genuine piety; hypocrisy in religion; a censorious, self-righteous spirit in matters of morals or manners.

  40. The only righteous in a word perverse.

  41. God shall judge the righteous and the wicked.

  42. The Lord will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish.

  43. He was not a righteous man, like Dictys; but greedy, and cunning, and cruel.

  44. And this remains true, however vicious the system conserved, however righteous the reform to be effected.

  45. The third and supreme conviction is that the method of education which produced the teacher himself and the contemporary or earlier scholars, authors, and publicists, must be the righteous and sufficient method.

  46. Verse: "The light of the righteous rejoiceth, but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.

  47. Verse: "A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

  48. Verse: "Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished; but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.

  49. Verse: "The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice; and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.

  50. Verse: "The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise.

  51. Verse: "Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee; he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.

  52. Narrow and self-righteous people, only capable of judging the lives of others by their own, are apt to condemn those who make this tragic error, to condemn them for life to the dungeons they have made for themselves.

  53. To a Latin Christian a righteous unbeliever who had never done anything but good would in the end be damned, whereas the murderer who repented at the last would be saved.

  54. All men fear death and what is beyond, the righteous who you say have earned heaven no less than the unrighteous.

  55. The eyes of that true-hearted man flashed with righteous indignation.

  56. What righteous cause can suffer harm If He its part has taken?

  57. The case is postponed till the day of Judgment, when a righteous verdict will be rendered.

  58. And, on the other, first, a righteous cause!

  59. And who is he thou art speaking of," inquired the father, delighted with the anger of his righteous offspring.

  60. Then take all this, and be once more the Croesus of Yemen, O, righteous Ben Abir!

  61. Both Mr. Kingley and Mr. Bill were on their feet and their exclamations were full of genuine and righteous indignation.

  62. How, then, does the prophet's declaration that the righteous man of God will escape death by his faith bear on the Apostle's arguments or help his strong appeals?

  63. Stephen reproaches the Jews, who had received the Law as the ordinances of angels, with having betrayed and murdered the Righteous One, of Whom the Law and the prophets spake.

  64. He refers to the righteous anger of God against those who persistently despise the Son.

  65. But My righteous one shall live by faith: And if he shrink back, My soul hath no pleasure in him.

  66. But I have My righteous ones[243] here and there, unseen by the world, and out of their faith will be wrought for them eternal life.

  67. He sought, not the favours of an arbitrary Sovereign, not the mere mercy of an omnipotent Ruler, but the peace of the righteous God.

  68. His blood, therefore, cried to the righteous God to avenge his wrong.

  69. But beware of your peculiar danger, which is self-righteous pride, worldliness, and the evil heart of unbelief.

  70. We have gained the perfectly righteous and perfectly good.

  71. They will put on the garb of religious decorum; but the inner life will be eaten by the canker of covetousness and self-righteous pride.

  72. Its purpose is to create righteous men; that is, to produce a certain character.

  73. Moreover, because Abel witnessed for righteousness by his sacrifice, his blood even cried from the ground unto God for righteous vengeance.

  74. We must not say that the spirits of the righteous have departed from us; let us rather say that we, by being made righteous, have come to them.

  75. Whatever a man sacrifices in this world as an offering or as an oblation for a whole year in order to gain merit, the whole of it is not worth a quarter; reverence shown to the righteous is better.

  76. Some people are born again; evil-doers go to Hell, righteous people go to Heaven; those who are free from all worldly desires enter Nirvana.

  77. Blessed indeed shall the righteous be in that day!

  78. I will never help to crowd a communion rail with careless, ignorant, self-righteous attendants.

  79. How any self-righteous Churchman can ever go to the Lord's Table, and take these words into his mouth, passes my understanding!

  80. The Lord is righteous in all His ways, and holy in all His works.

  81. Self-righteous people, who think that they are to be saved by their own works, have no business to come to the Lord's Table.

  82. He is the Person who speaks in one sentence of the wicked going away into "everlasting punishment" and the righteous into "life eternal.

  83. One thing, at any rate, is very plain: a self-righteous man has no business to receive the sacrament in the Church of England.

  84. There were some kings of Judah and Israel who did many things that were right in God's sight, and yet were never written in the list of godly and righteous men.

  85. Some are sneering Sadducees, and some self-righteous Pharisees.

  86. It gives occasion to the wicked to ridicule religion, and looks self-righteous and affected.

  87. Now what has a self-righteous man to do with an ordinance like this?

  88. Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are Thy judgments.

  89. A number of the Waldenses, sword in hand, and eyes flashing with righteous indignation, were gathered about two of the would-be assassins, caught by them almost on the threshold of the cottage.

  90. But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live?


  91. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "righteous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    angelic; appropriate; blameless; chaste; clean; condign; conscientious; correct; creditable; decent; decorous; due; elevated; erect; estimable; ethical; exemplary; fair; faithful; fit; fitting; godlike; godly; good; guiltless; heavenly; holy; honest; honorable; immaculate; incorrupt; innocent; inviolate; irreproachable; just; kosher; manly; moral; moralistic; nice; noble; normal; normative; perfect; principled; proper; pure; religious; reputable; respectable; right; righteous; rightful; saintly; scrupulous; seemly; seraphic; simple; spiritual; spotless; stainless; sterling; straight; suitable; unblemished; uncorrupted; undefiled; unearthly; unimpeachable; unspotted; unstained; unsullied; untarnished; unworldly; upright; upstanding; virtuous; worthy