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community's mysterious Teacher of Righteousness and his enemy, the Man ... ===A call to righteousness=== The Geniza versions of the Damascus Document ...

(four aims of life), namely Dharma (righteousness), Artha (wealth), Kama ... * Dharma--righteousness or morality * Moksha--liberation from the cycle ...

referred to as "The Teacher of Righteousness," prophesied that ... to practice piety towards Yahweh and righteousness towards humanity, to ...

wrote the famous classics "Song of Righteousness" (Zhengqige), and ... patriotism in China. His writings on righteousness are still widely taught ...

universal moral essences (benevolence, righteousness, ritual propriety, and ... is benevolence. The heart of disdain is righteousness. The heart of respect ...

not with those of a double heart. But walk in righteousness, my sons; and it shall guide you on good paths. And righteousness shall be your companion (Ch. 91). ...

::righteousness like a never-failing stream. (Amos 5:21-24) ... his disgust with religiosity devoid of righteousness: ::I hate, I despise ...

or restoring dharma (cosmic order, righteousness). The avatar doctrine ... in order to protect and uphold justice, righteousness, and love. ...

he will establishing a reign of righteousness upon the earth, ushering ... to iniquity. He will then reestablish righteousness upon earth (Vishnu Purana ...

believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness. Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. But to him that ...

[Ren]. Respecting one's elders is righteousness [Yi]. There is nothing ... Mencius 6A:6 : "Humanity, righteousness, propriety, and wisdom ...

that it became them to fulfill all righteousness, and John complied. The ... the Jews to exercise virtue, both as to righteousness towards one another, ...

of life is the beginning and end of our faith. Righteousness is the beginning and end of judgment. Love of joy and of gladness is the testimony of the ...

training to cultivate propriety (lǐ), righteousness (yì) and benevolence ... ====Righteousness (yì) ==== To Confucius, yì was the origin of lǐ ...

heaven. For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the ... that we are saved not by works of righteousness, but faith in Jesus& ...

deterioration of dharma (or "righteousness"), manifested by ... as seeing the first drastic decline in righteousness of humanity. The dharma ...

title which translates to "The Righteousness of the Faith" from ... The name Salah ad-Din means "Righteousness of Faith," and ...

The righteousness of Noah is the subject of much discussion among ... Noah is called a "preacher of righteousness" in 2 Peter ...

fact that he practiced benevolence and righteousness and abided by the proper ... in the practice of benevolence and righteousness, for the environment ...

Qualities of the soul, such as righteousness, were part of this invisible character. Virtue was good; vice was evil. Our ultimate goal was to ...

norms of rén (仁) (benevolence) and yì (義) (righteousness). In fact, for Confucius and Mencius, xiào was a display of rén which was ideally applied ...

Indra is the opponent of order, truth, and righteousness. Similarly, in the Denkard, a ninth-century Middle Persian text, Indra is the arch-demon that ...

" for he not longer seeks to have a "righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ." Yet ...

Benevolence (in), righteousness (ui), decorum (ye), and knowledge ... ::About righteousness, we do not say much. :There is no special truth ...

*Vidhi (Rules), the physical practice of which generates righteousness * Dukhanta (End of misery), the final deliverance or destruction of misery ...

by God on the basis of his or her own righteousness or sin. ... father share the guilt of the son. The righteousness of the righteous man ...

sprung from his love of truth and righteousness. He believed in a life ... search for truth and the feeling for righteousness were the basis of his ...

* Original righteousness was an integral part of human nature, rather than a special gift granted particularly to Adam and Eve. * Concupiscence ...

Bible devoted to him as a paragon of righteousness beloved of God (Book ... *Rabbinic tradition asserts that the basic standard of righteousness ...

periodically for the protection of righteousness (dharma) and the destruction of evil, and he is most famously identified with his avatars, especially ...

values including propriety (禮/礼), righteousness (義/义), loyalty (忠) and filial piety (孝), all centered about the central thought of ...

forgive iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal vision and prophet, and to anoint the most holy place" (Dan. 9:20, 9:24 ...

of absolute values and a framework for righteousness and justice, while the ... and he exhorted his sons to observe righteousness, and to cover the shame ...

* Crawford, W.H. Girolamo Savonarola: A Prophet Of Righteousness. Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2006. ISBN 1428653228 * Durant, Will. The Renaissance ...

boon, he asked never to swerve from the path of righteousness and to be illumined by divine knowledge (Book III, Varna Parva: Section 273.) Vibhishana ...

for all men, so also the result of one act of righteousness was justification that brings life for all men. For just as through the disobedience of the ...

by God as God's son as a result of his righteousness. ===Administering the Church=== In 787, Adrian elevated the diocese of Lichfield, in ...

own destiny. Some choose the way of divine righteousness and God's Kingdom, others do not and fall into the material realm, which is inherently ...

:Now and in death, as righteousness. ==See also== *Rosary *Theotokos *Mary, the mother of Jesus *Mariology ==References== * Ayo, Nicholas. The ...

which allows for an "island of righteousness" in human hearts that is uncorrupted by sin and able to accept God's offer of salvation ...

and social duties that are rooted in righteousness and faith. However, when ... as the Kalki Avatar…He will establish righteousness upon the earth and the ...

fathers of the Old Testament, who had lived in righteousness and were surely deserving of salvation, had preceded Jesus and therefore had never been ...

#039;s task “to bring about the rule of righteousness in the land, to destroy the wicked and the evil-doers” and to fear God. Hammurabi's code ...

the good pleasure of their Lord in judgment and righteousness." After this, they will be ruled by kings. Two "holy tribes" will be established ...

who sow in peace raise a harvest of righteousness." (3:13-18) A true Christian is not a "friend to the world" but resists sin. ...

Ezra himself is presented as a paragon of righteousness and asceticism, chosen by God to renew the divine word to the chosen people. ...

Hinduism regards dharma (the path of righteousness) as the first chief ... on virtuous living on the path of righteousness, which would lead to ...

*Those who "pervert righteousness" are tormented in a lake of flaming mire. *Adulteress women who dress in a sexually suggestive manner ...

both of these: a righteous man perishing in his righteousness, and a wicked man living long in his wickedness." (Ecc. 7:15) The Book of Job, meanwhile ...

dharma, or duty as a warrior was to fight for righteousness, and refusing to fight would be a cowardly act. He also informed Arjuna that although people ...

, alongside artha (wealth), dharma (righteousness) and moksha (liberation). When governed by righteous action and intent, the fulfillment of ...

As a force for righteousness and high moral standards, Jane Addams set an example worthy of emulation. A U.S. postage stamp was issued in her ...

in accordance with propriety, humanity, righteousness, wisdom, faithfulness, and tranquility. Zhou viewed sincerity as the foundation of morality ...

#039; intolerance and self-righteousness as a breeding ground ... in worship of your Lord, and work righteousness, that you may succeed ...

masses. The Calvinist values of salvation, righteousness, and piety, so prominent in the early Readers, were entirely missing in the later versions ...

quot;--a natural intuition which seeks truth and righteousness. God also reveals His truth to people of all ages through divine revelation. ...

of truth; the promotion of social righteousness; and the exhibition of the Kingdom of Heaven to the world. Jack B. Rogers and Robert E. Blade ...

the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness." Anger particularly leads to sin, thus: "Do not let the sun go down ...

and all other islands which Christ the Sun of Righteousness has illumined, and which have received the doctrines of the Christian faith, belong to the ...

earth," declares Hammurabi, "let righteousness go forth in the land; by the order of Marduk, my lord, let no destruction befall my monument." ...

life, and the ability to attain righteousness (acceptance by God) through ... insistence by Jewish-Christians that righteousness required even non-Jewish ...

the Lord, and he reckoned it to him as righteousness" (Gen. 15:6). Saint ... God, and it was credited to him as righteousness'" (Rom. 4:3; ...

in a descent to earth to instruct humans in righteousness. The tutelage went on for a few centuries, but soon the angels pined for the human females ...

observance of the Sabbath is a sign of righteousness unique to the Judeo-Christian ... the ascension of all those living in righteousness to the heavens so that ...

great renown as a scholar and example of righteousness. His teacher, Judah ben Meïr ha-Kohen, esteemed him so highly that he gave Gershom the hand ...

Wishing to do evil or harm to others. Self-righteousness. Wrath is the root of murder and assault. Dante described wrath as "love of justice perverted ...

*Hodge's commentary on Romans 5 regarding imputed righteousness: [http://reformed.org/books/romans/rom_5a_hodge.html part 1] and [http://reformed ...

other two Jewish characters that counts for righteousness. From that specific lesson, the story has come to stand for a generalized theme of non-discrimination ...

calls on the prince to establish “the rule of righteousness in the land” by prohibiting evil and encouraging “good” shows that basic rules of ...

works and faith, flesh and spirit, sin and righteousness and death and life as the essence of religious truth. He ascribed these aspects and characteristics ...

are in accord with dharma (the path of righteousness). Karma is not necessarily ... the qualities of meekness, mercy, and righteousness, etc. shown in the Beatitudes ...

September 1649, he said that it was the righteousness punishment of God. However ... he could be blinded by his own sense of righteousness, and that in “seeking ...

perfect virtue, as love for all mankind. Yi (righteousness) was a balanced relationship between action and appropriateness. The way (Dao) of Confucianism ...

the case.James Aho, The Politics of Righteousness: Idaho Christian Patriotism ... * Aho, James. The Politics of Righteousness: Idaho Christian Patriotism ...

teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness 2 Timothy 3:16 NIV). Although the author here refers to the Hebrew Scripture and ...

* YHWH-Tsidkenu—"The Lord our Righteousness" ( |Jeremiah|23:6|HE ). * YHWH-Shammah(Jehovah-shammah)— "The Lord is present" ( ...

overcome the tendency to evil: "Unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter ...

" the writer commands. "For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common?" (6:14) Whether this section is by Paul or not, it has ...

divorced from considerations of kindness and righteousness. People think that starvation, cold, hardship and difficulty are simply the slave’s lot in ...

of man and punished them, encouraging moral righteousness. Their belief in spirits was at best vague, but they were wary of some of the more atheistic ...

with "with spirituality and righteousness." Few Prime Ministers in the modern world have been as disinterested in material wealth or ...

Jesus urges his disciples to "exceed the righteousness of the Pharisees" (Matthew 5:20). One thing all four Gospels agree upon, however, ...

Churmusian angels, assisting the righteousness of the Catholic cause. Protestant pamphleteers asserted that their survival had more to do with ...

followed Jewish law. The Teacher of Righteousness was identified in these texts as the person who led the community. According to the information ...

aware of it. That weapon is patience and righteousness. No power on earth can stand against it. [http://www.forusa.org/fellowship/sept-oct-04/abu ...

human soul"; and 3) "the higher righteousness and the commandment of love." Adolf Harnack, [http://www.ccel.org/ccel/harnack/christianity ...

so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him." Thus Jesus was baptized, immersion in water being a fulfillment ...

#039;s task “to bring about the rule of righteousness in the land, to destroy the wicked and the evil-doers” and to fear God. [[File:Kassite ...

, "righteousness" or "the cosmic and social order" Gavin Flood. 1996. An Introduction to Hinduism. (Cambridge: Cambridge University ...

by a desire for knowledge and for righteousness. Dominic perceived that only well educated preachers capable of advancing reasonable arguments ...

But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings... Christian interpreters have stated that this is ...

It is not righteousness that you turn your faces towards the East and the West, righteousness is this that one should believe in Allah, the Last ...

Israel and Judah. Under his rule, justice and righteousness will reign, and rebellious nations will be subjugated without mercy. The prophecy ...

humanity), shame and dislike (beginning of righteousness), deference and compliance (is the beginning of propriety, and right and wrong (beginning of ...

" "order," "righteousness," or "holiness ... " "order," "righteousness," or "holiness ...

and intellectual qualities such as justice, righteousness and virtue were considered to be portions of pneuma. According to this view, all parts ...

will the father share the guilt of the son. The righteousness of the righteous man will be credited to him, and the wickedness of the wicked will be charged ...

the same maxim as follows: "'Righteousness exalteth a nation,' for benevolence, both for Israel and for the Gentiles, is a sin ...

he will be called: The LORD [is] Our Righteousness." (Jer. 23:5–6) ... of a political deliver and teacher of righteousness. Luke's gospel shows ...

by the narrator as an exemplary person of righteousness. God Himself says there is no one like him, declaring him to be "blameless and upright ...

power over the Devil through their faith, righteousness, or knowledge of the truth, and thus come to prosecute him before God, rather than the other ...

:Whenever there is a decline of righteousness and a rise of unrighteousness ... is aligned with the former, who embody righteousness. The Mahabharata includes ...

of faith resulting in the imperative of righteousness of word and deed, noting that the "Will of God is to be followed, which we have expressly ...

in particular the passage on the "righteousness of God" (1:17). ... He believed that works-based righteousness had objectified faith ...

17: 1). Once again, the theme of relation and righteousness before God becomes a covenantal component. God has observed Abraham’s faith and right ...

and victory crowns the forces of righteousness." Jubilant with victory, some in the WCTU announced that, having brought Prohibition to the ...

to defeat ad-Dajjal, the last enemy of righteousness. He will then break the ... It is not righteousness that ye turn your faces towards east or west; ...

racial bigotry and egotistical self-righteousness, but enough good traits that readers find themselves interested nevertheless. While often disturbing ...

with this. He saw himself as a preacher of righteousness. It was this lifelong conviction that guided Erasmus as he subjected the Catholic church ...

his divine attributes are mercy, wisdom, righteousness, loving kindness, justice, compassion, patience, and beauty. However he is also a jealous ...

Tibetan tales in which she laughs at self-righteousness, or plays pranks on those who lack reverence for the feminine. In Magic Dance: The Display of ...

quot;The Life of the Land is Perpetuated in Righteousness") Anthem: Hawaiʻi Ponoʻī ("Hawaii’s Own True Sons") | MottoEnglish = ...

English, suggested that to be governed by righteousness is to be "on tham hehstan freodome," that is, in the highest freedom. The Christian ...

disorder) is kept in check with dharma (order, righteousness) is healthy. The universe is not the creation of the Gods; indeed they are "this side ...

for thinking that it looks more like self-righteousness than the sanctification proclaimed in John Wesley’s theology and Charles Wesley’s hymns ...

are not the virtues of Islam, not so much righteousness and the due quittance of obligations, as mildness and gentleness towards all men, forgiveness ...

on that date the birth of the "Sun of Righteousness"."Christmas," Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (Oxford University ...

teaches that the pomegranate is a symbol for righteousness, because it is said to have 613 seeds, which corresponds with the 613 mitzvot or commandments ...

of the Ming Dynasty, was famous for his righteousness. He remonstrated with Emperor Jiajing about his arbitrariness and spoke out against the ...

the Ark will no longer be needed because of the righteousness of the people. In the Psalms, the Ark is twice referred to. In Ps. 78:61 its capture by ...

" he said, "I knew pureness and righteousness; for, while I was a child, I was taught how to walk to be kept pure. The Lord taught me to be ...

his profound regard for propriety and righteousness largely reflect the religious piety of his parents and their concern for his proper moral ...

those who pardon and maintain righteousness are rewarded by GOD. He does not love the unjust. (Qur'an 42:40). There are no particular words ...

universal … the manifestation of the righteousness of God in human affairs,” restoring the lost ideal of Davidic kingship. This “constitutes ...

for all men, so also the result of one act of righteousness was justification that brings life for all men. For just as through the disobedience of the ...

Judaism states that non-Jews can achieve righteousness by following Noahide Laws, a set of seven universal commandments that non-Jews are expected to ...

world of force is gone, and the new world of righteousness and truth is here. Out of the experience and travail of the old world arises this light ...

injustice, puritanism, and self-righteousness. As a nationally syndicated columnist and author of numerous books, he notably assaulted America ...

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 ...

power is limited by his own character of righteousness, truth and love." Alan Richardson, "Evil, The Problem of," in The Westminster ...

because they loved God's righteousness and desired the inward punishment of their sin. These sermons seem to have ceased from April to ...

in its petals. They are Love, Peace, Truth, Righteousness and Non-violence. This text version has replaced the old logo with the symbols of the 5 or ...

in each age (yuga) to establish righteousness in the world, "to reestablish the principles of religion, I Myself appear." Bhagavad Gita 4.8. ...

values of virtue, humanity, decorum, faith, righteousness, and knowledge, each in greater and lesser grades. In 604, Prince Shotoku introduced ...

He characterizes evil as a malignant type of self-righteousness in which there is an active rather than passive refusal to tolerate imperfection ...

street, justifying his outbursts as religious righteousness. In contrast, Sophia was well-mannered and well-educated. Her grandfather, George ...

seems to be synonymous with righteousness. In order to propagate the Buddhist faith, Ashoka explains he sent emissaries to the Hellenistic kings ...

virtues of loyalty, filial piety, and righteousness, and the compassion encouraged by Buddhism. As such, they embodied most comprehensively the ...

Bangkok, pledged that he would "reign with righteousness for the benefit and happiness of the Siamese people" ("เราจะครองแผ ...

states that God takes incarnation to establish righteousness in the world. ===The end of the Pandavas=== Beholding the carnage, the noble mother ...

first God's Kingdom and his righteousness" (Matthew 6:31-33). A personal God uses believers who are willing to suffer to bring about ...

the end of the Taisho period,(大正 lit. Great Righteousness, 1912 - 1926) had completed a railway system with three lines radiating from Naha: one ...

*"Be not yoked with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness ...

See Lowell C. Green's "Faith, Righteousness, and Justification: New Light on Their Development Under Luther and Melanchton" Sixteenth ...

freely admitted his guilt he challenged the righteousness of such a law. The jury, recognizing that William Penn clearly had been preaching in public ...

for all men, so also the result of one act of righteousness was justification that brings life for all men" (Romans 5:18); "for all have sinned ...

in their desire to abide in the righteousness of their faith. They stopped using tobacco and alcohol, divided their property equally between ...

in his 1649 pamphlet, The New Law of Righteousness, that there "shall be no buying or selling, no fairs nor markets, but the whole earth ...

violence for "conquest by righteousness." Buddhism does not encourage the accumulation of excessive wealth but nor does it demand complete ...

them…. But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!" (Amos 5:21-24) Amos' sayings are characteristic ...

and asuras, He always finds ways to protect righteousness and never allows any evil to triumph over good. In South India, five temples of Shiva ...

rabbinic teachings teach that wisdom, righteousness, and the possibility of a true relationship with God are all available in non-Jewish cultures ...

dead, he makes a final attempt to overthrow righteousness, although he and his minions fail, defeated at the hands of God himself. Regardless of these ...

of ekantik dharma, comprising righteousness, right knowledge, detachment and devotion to that God. Sahajsananda, Shree Swaminarayan's Vachanamritam ...

through faith [Christ's] righteousness without embracing at the same time that sanctification [which he also gives us freely]” (Fosdick, 227). ...

*Aho, James Alfred. 1990. The Politics of Righteousness: Idaho Christian Patriotism. Seattle: University of Washington Press. ISBN 0295969970 ...

pleasure or love), Artha (wealth), Dharma (righteousness or morality) and Moksha (liberation from the cycle of reincarnation). Dharma connotes general ...

change, "imputing" Christ's righteousness to the believer, who is now proclaimed as not guilty of Adam's sin. New birth, by contrast ...

virtuous, punish evil-doers and re-establish righteousness. # In the Antaryami; "Dwelling within" or "Suksma Vasudeva" form ...

energy, and his undying passion for justice and righteousness, gave him the confidence and intestinal fortitude to stand up for what was right, and not ...

seppuku, caused endless debates about the righteousness of the samurais' actions and how bushido should be applied. They had defied the shogun by ...

charity. "Spiritual pride" and self-righteousness is for Leskov the greatest of crimes. Active charity is for him the principal virtue, and ...

himself, he practices virtue and righteousness diligently. This is how a ruler should act." -Taizong of Tang, How A Ruler Should Act, Di Fan ...

in a restored realm of "original righteousness." Marriage is a popular subject of discussion in Christianity today, presenting a more ...

age of David's reign as a paragon of righteousness, with the most important virtue of a king being his devotion to the Hebrew God Yahweh and ...

church. He spoke often of the value of prayer, righteousness, and seeking and offering thanks for the "blessings of Heaven." He frequently ...

in his own skin and confident in the righteousness of his cause, King still grappled daily with the doubts, struggles, and temptations that inevitably ...

.. but seek first God's kingdom and his righteousness." :"Why do you see the speck in your brother's eye when you do not notice ...

whole and to save you from the mortal sin of righteousness and extremism." Quoted in Mezu, 132. And in a 1996 interview, Achebe said: "Belief ...