NT.filter - geneva righteous:

geneva@Matthew:3:15 @ And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer [it to be so] now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil (note:)All such things as it has appointed for us to keep.(:note) all righteousness. Then he suffered him.

geneva@Matthew:5:6 @ Blessed are they which hunger and thirst for righteousnes: for they shalbe filled.

geneva@Matthew:5:10 @ Blessed are they which suffer persecution for righteousnes sake: for theirs is the kingdome of heauen.

geneva@Matthew:5:20 @ For I say vnto you, except your righteousnes exceede the righteousnes of the Scribes and Pharises, ye shall not enter into the kingdome of heauen.

geneva@Matthew:6:33 @ But seeke ye first the kingdome of God, and his righteousnesse, and all these things shall be ministred vnto you.

geneva@Matthew:9:13 @ But goe yee and learne what this is, I will haue mercie, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but the sinners to repentance.

geneva@Matthew:13:17 @ For verely I say vnto you, that many Prophets, & righteous men haue desired to see those things which ye see, & haue not seene them, & to heare those things which ye heare, and haue not heard them.

geneva@Matthew:21:32 @ For John came unto you in the (note:)Living uprightly, being of good and honest behaviour; For the Hebrews use this word «way» for life and manners.(:note) way of righteousness, and ye believed him not: but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and ye, when ye had seen [it], repented not afterward, that ye might believe him.

geneva@Matthew:23:28 @ So are ye also: for outwarde ye appeare righteous vnto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisie and iniquitie.

geneva@Matthew:25:37 @ Then shall the righteous answere him, saying, Lord, when sawe we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or a thirst, and gaue thee drinke?

geneva@Matthew:25:46 @ And these shall goe into euerlasting paine, and the righteous into life eternall.

geneva@Mark:2:17 @ Now when Iesus heard it, hee sayde vnto them, The whole haue no neede of the Physicion, but the sicke. I came not to call the righteous, but the sinners to repentance.

geneva@Luke:1:6 @ And they were both (note:)The true mark of righteousness is demonstrated when one is liked and accepted in the judgment of God.(:note) righteous before God, Lived, as the Hebrews say, for our life is as a way in which we must walk until we come to the mark. walking in all the In all the moral and ceremonial law. commandments and ordinances of the Lord Whom no man could justly reprove: now so it is that the fruits of justification are set forth here, and not the cause, which is faith only, and nothing else. blameless.

geneva@Luke:1:75 @ In holiness and righteousness (note:)To God's good liking.(:note) before him, all the days of our life.

geneva@Luke:5:32 @ I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

geneva@Luke:16:9 @ And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon (note:)This is not spoken of goods that are gotten wrongly, for God will have our bountifulness to the poor proceed and come from a good fountain: but he calls those things riches of iniquity which men use wickedly.(:note) of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting That is, the poor Christians: for they are the inheritors of these habitations; Theophylact. habitations.

geneva@Luke:16:11 @ If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the (note:)That is, heavenly and true riches, which are contrary to material wealth which is worldly and quickly departing.(:note) true [riches]?

geneva@Luke:18:6 @ And the Lord said, Heare what the vnrighteous iudge saith.

geneva@Luke:23:31 @ For if they do these things in a (note:)As if he said, «If they do this to me who is always fruitful and flourishing, and who lives forever by reason of my Godhead, what will they do to you who are unfruitful and void of all active righteousness?»(:note) green tree, what shall be done in the dry?

geneva@John:16:10 @ Of (note:)Of Christ himself: for when the world will see that I have poured out the Holy Spirit they will be forced to confess that I was just, and was not condemned by my Father when I went out of this world.(:note) righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more;

geneva@John:17:25 @ O righteous Father, the worlde also hath not knowen thee, but I haue knowen thee, and these haue knowen, that thou hast sent me.

geneva@Acts:10:35 @ But in every nation he that (note:)By the «fear of God» the Hebrews understood the whole service of God, by which we perceive that Cornelius was not void of faith, no more than they were who lived before Christ's time: and therefore they deal incorrectly who deduce meritorious works and free will from this passage.(:note) feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.

geneva@Acts:15:1 @ And (note:)The Church is at length troubled with dissension within itself, and the trouble rises from the proud and stubborn intellects of certain evil men. The first strife was concerning the office of Christ, whether we are saved only by his righteousness apprehended by faith, or if we also have need to observe the Law.(:note)Epiphanius is of the opinion that this was Cerinthus. certain men which came down from Judaea taught the brethren, [and said], Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved.

geneva@Acts:17:31 @ Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by [that] man whom he hath ordained; [whereof] he hath given (note:)By declaring Christ to be the judge of the world through the resurrection from the dead.(:note) assurance unto all [men], in that he hath raised him from the dead.

geneva@Acts:24:25 @ And as he disputed of righteousnes & temperance, & of the iudgement to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this time, and when I haue conuenient time, I will call for thee.

geneva@Romans:1:29 @ Being full of all vnrighteousnesse, fornication, wickednes, couetousnes, maliciousnes, full of enuie, of murther, of debate, of deceit, taking all things in the euill part, whisperers,

geneva@Romans:2:5 @ But after thy hardness and impenitent heart (note:)While you are giving yourself to pleasures, thinking to increase your goods, you will find God's wrath.(:note) treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;

geneva@Romans:2:8 @ But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the (note:)By «truth» he means the knowledge which we naturally have.(:note) truth, but obey unrighteousness, God's indignation against sinners, which will quickly be kindled. indignation and wrath,

geneva@Romans:2:26 @ Therefore if the (note:)This is the figure of speech metonymy, and means «uncircumcised».(:note) uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his The state and condition of the uncircumcised. uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?

geneva@Romans:2:27 @ And shall not (note:)He who is uncircumcised by nature and race.(:note) uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the Paul often contrasts the letter against the Spirit: but in this place, the circumcision which is according to the letter is the cutting off of the foreskin, but the circumcision of the Spirit is the circumcision of the heart, that is to say, the spiritual result of the ceremony is true holiness and righteousness, by which the people of God are known from profane and heathen men. letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?

geneva@Romans:3:4 @ God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be (note:)That your justice might be plainly seen.(:note) justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome Seeing that you showed forth an true token of your righteousness, steadfastness and faith, by preserving him who had broken his covenant. when thou art judged.

geneva@Romans:3:10 @ As it is written, There is none righteous, no not one.

geneva@Romans:3:20 @ Therefore by the (note:)By those deeds by which the law can be done by us.(:note) deeds of the law there shall no Flesh is here taken for man, as in many other places, and furthermore has greater force here: for it is given to show the contrast between God and man: as if one would say, «Man, who is nothing else but a piece of flesh defiled with sin, and God, who is most pure and most perfect in himself.» flesh be Absolved before the judgment seat of God. justified in his Paul has in mind a contrasting of the righteousness of before men, be they ever so just, against the justice which can stand before God: now there is no righteousness that can stand before God, except the righteousness of Christ alone. sight: for by the law [is] the knowledge of sin.

geneva@Romans:3:26 @ To declare, [I say], (note:)That is, when Paul wrote this.(:note) at this time his righteousness: that he might be That he might be found exceedingly truth and faithful. just, and the Making him just and without blame, but putting Christ's righteousness to him. justifier of him which Of the number of those who by faith lay hold upon Christ: contrary to whom are those who seek to be saved by circumcision, that is by the law. believeth in Jesus.

geneva@Romans:4:5 @ But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that (note:)That makes him who is wicked in himself to be just in Christ.(:note) justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.

geneva@Romans:4:22 @ And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousnesse.

geneva@Romans:4:24 @ But also for vs, to whom it shalbe imputed for righteousnesse, which beleeue in him that raised vp Iesus our Lord from the dead,

geneva@Romans:5:21 @ That as sinne had reigned vnto death, so might grace also reigne by righteousnesse vnto eternall life, through Iesus Christ our Lord.

geneva@Romans:6:13 @ Neither (note:)To sin, as to a Lord or tyrant.(:note) yield ye your Your mind and all the powers of it. members [as] As instruments to commit wickedness with them. instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members [as] instruments of righteousness unto God.

geneva@Romans:6:16 @ Knowe ye not, that to whomsoeuer yee giue your selues as seruats to obey, his seruants ye are to whom ye obey, whether it be of sinne vnto death, or of obedience vnto righteousnesse?

geneva@Romans:6:18 @ Being then made free from sinne, yee are made the seruants of righteousnesse.

geneva@Romans:6:19 @ I speake after the maner of man, because of the infirmitie of your flesh: for as yee haue giuen your members seruants to vncleannes and to iniquitie, to commit iniquitie, so now giue your mebers seruants vnto righteousnesse in holinesse.

geneva@Romans:6:20 @ For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were (note:)Righteousness had no rule over you.(:note) free from righteousness.

geneva@Romans:8:1 @ [There is] (note:)A conclusion of all the former discussion, from (Rom_1:16) to this verse: seeing that we, being justified by faith in Christ, obtain remission of sins and imputation of righteousness, and are also sanctified, it follows from this that those who are grafted into Christ by faith, need have no fear of condemnation.(:note) therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who The fruits of the Spirit, or effects of sanctification, which are begun in us, do not ingraft us into Christ, but declare that we are grafted into him. walk not after the Do not follow the flesh as their guide: for he is not said to live after the flesh that has the Holy Spirit for his guide, even though he sometimes takes a step off of the path. flesh, but after the Spirit.

geneva@Romans:8:4 @ That the (note:)The very substance of the law of God might be fulfilled, or that same which the law requires, that we may be found just before God: for if with our justification there is joined that sanctification which is imputed to us, we are just, according to the perfect form which the Lord requires.(:note) righteousness of the law might be fulfilled He returns to that which he said, that the sanctification which is begun in us is a sure testimony of our ingrafting into Christ, which is a most plentiful fruit of a godly and honest life. in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

geneva@Romans:9:28 @ For he will finish the work, and cut [it] (note:)God chooses and goes about to reduce the unkind and unthankful people to a very small number.(:note) short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.

geneva@Romans:9:32 @ Wherefore? Because [they sought it] not by faith, but as it were by the (note:)Seeking to attain righteousness, they followed the law of righteousness.(:note) works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;

geneva@Romans:10:6 @ But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, (note:)Do not think to yourself, as men that are doubting do.(:note) Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down [from above]:)

geneva@Romans:10:10 @ For with the heart man (note:)Faith is said to justify, and furthermore seeing the confession of the mouth is an effect of faith, and confession in the way to come to salvation, it follows that faith is also said to save.(:note) believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

geneva@Romans:14:18 @ For he that in (note:)He that lives peaceably, and does righteously, through the Holy Spirit.(:note) these things serveth Christ [is] acceptable to God, and approved of men.

geneva@1Corinthians:1:30 @ But (note:)Whom he cast down before, now he lifts up, indeed, higher than all men: yet in such a way that he shows them that all their worthiness is outside of themselves, that is, it stands in Christ, and that of God.(:note) of him are ye in Christ Jesus, He teaches that especially and above all things, the Gospel ought not to be condemned, seeing that it contains the principal things that are to be desired, that is, true wisdom, the true way to obtain righteousness, the true way to live honestly and godly, and the true deliverance from all miseries and calamities. who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:

geneva@1Corinthians:6:9 @ Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? (note:)Now he prepares himself to pass over to the fourth treatise of this epistle, which concerns other matters, concerning this matter first, how men may well use a woman or not. And this question has three parts: fornication, matrimony, and a single life. As for fornication, he utterly condemns it. And marriage he commands to some, as a good and necessary remedy for them: to others he leaves is free. And others he dissuades from it, not as unlawful, but as inconvenient, and that not without exception. As for singleness of life (under which also I comprehend virginity) he enjoins it to no man: yet he persuades men to it, but not for itself, but for another respect, neither to all men, nor without exception. And being about to speak against fornication, he begins with a general reprehension of those vices, with which that rich and riotous city most abounded: warning and teaching them earnestly, that repentance is inseparable joined with forgiveness of sins, and sanctification with justification.(:note) Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

geneva@1Corinthians:13:6 @ Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but (note:)Rejoices at righteousness in the righteous. For by «truth» the Hebrews mean «righteousness».(:note) rejoiceth in the truth;

geneva@1Corinthians:15:34 @ Awake to liue righteously, and sinne not: for some haue not ye knowledge of God, I speake this to your shame.

geneva@2Corinthians:3:9 @ For if the ministration of condemnation [be] glory, much more doth the ministration of (note:)That is, of Christ. And since he is imputed to us as our own, we are not condemned, and what is more we are also crowned as righteous.(:note) righteousness exceed in glory.

geneva@2Corinthians:5:21 @ For he hath made him [to be] (note:)A sinner, not in himself, but by imputation of the guilt of all our sins to him.(:note) sin for us, who Who was completely void of sin. knew no sin; that we might be made the Righteous before God, and that with righteousness which is not fundamental in us, but being fundamental in Christ, God imputes it to us through faith. righteousness of God in him.

geneva@2Corinthians:6:7 @ By the (note:)Preaching of the Gospel.(:note) word of truth, by the Power to work miracles, and to subdue the wicked. power of God, by the Uprightness. armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,

geneva@2Corinthians:9:9 @ (As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the poor: his righteousness remaineth for (note:)Is everlasting: now David speaks of a man that fears God, and loves his neighbour, who will always be able (he says) to give to others.(:note) ever.

geneva@2Corinthians:9:10 @ Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for [your] food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the (note:)There is no inheritance as good to the godly as bountifulness is.(:note) fruits of your righteousness;)

geneva@2Corinthians:11:15 @ Therefore it is no great thing, though his ministers transforme themselues, as though they were the ministers of righteousnes, whose end shall be according to their workes.

geneva@Galatians:2:19 @ For I through the law am dead to the (note:)The Law that terrifies the conscience brings us to Christ, and he alone causes us to indeed die to the Law, because by making us righteous, he takes away from us the terror of conscience. And by sanctifying us, he causes the mortifying of lust in us, so that it cannot take such occasion to sin by the restraint which the Law makes, as it did before; (Rom_7:10-11).(:note) law, that I might live unto God.

geneva@Galatians:3:24 @ Wherefore the Lawe was our scholemaster to bring vs to Christ, that we might be made righteous by faith.

geneva@Ephesians:4:24 @ And that ye put on the new man, which (note:)After the image of God.(:note) after God is created The effect and end of the new creation. in righteousness and Not fake nor counterfeit. true holiness.

geneva@Ephesians:5:9 @ (For the fruit of the (note:)By whose power we are made light in the Lord.(:note) Spirit [is] in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)

geneva@Ephesians:6:14 @ Stand therefore, and your loynes girded about with veritie, and hauing on the brest plate of righteousnesse,

geneva@Philippians:1:11 @ Being filled with the (note:)If righteousness is the tree, and good works the fruits, then the papists are truly deceived indeed, when they say that works are the cause of righteousness.(:note) fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.

geneva@Philippians:3:6 @ Concerning zeale, I persecuted ye Church: touching the righteousnesse which is in the Law, I was vnrebukeable.

geneva@Philippians:3:9 @ And be found in (note:)In Christ: for those that are found outside of Christ are subject to condemnation.(:note) him, That is, to be in Christ, to be found not in a man's own righteousness, but clothed with the righteousness of Christ imputed to him. not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:

geneva@2Thessalonians:2:10 @ And in al deceiuablenes of vnrighteousnes, among them that perish, because they receiued not the loue of the trueth, that they might be saued.

geneva@2Thessalonians:2:12 @ That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but (note:)They liked lies so much that they had pleasure in them, which is the greatest madness that may exist.(:note) had pleasure in unrighteousness.

geneva@2Timothy:4:8 @ For hence foorth is laide vp for me the crowne of righteousnesse, which the Lorde the righteous iudge shall giue me at that day: and not to me onely, but vnto all them also that loue that his appearing.

geneva@Titus:2:12 @ Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and (note:)Lusts of the flesh, which belong to the present state of this life and world.(:note) worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

geneva@Titus:3:5 @ Not by works of (note:)Literally, «of works which are done in righteousness»: and this passage fully refutes the doctrine of meritorious works.(:note) righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Which the power of the Holy Spirit works. Holy Ghost;

geneva@Hebrews:1:8 @ But unto the Son [he saith], Thy (note:)The throne is proper for princes and not for servants.(:note) throne, O God, [is] for ever For everlasting, for this repeating of the word increases the significance of it beyond all measure. and ever: a The government of your kingdom is righteous. sceptre of righteousness [is] the sceptre of thy kingdom.

geneva@Hebrews:1:9 @ Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated (note:)This type of speech in which the Jews use contrasting phrases, has great force in it.(:note) iniquity; therefore God, [even] thy God, hath In that, that the word became flesh, by sending the Holy Spirit on him without measure. anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy For he is the head and we are his members. fellows.

geneva@Hebrews:5:13 @ For every one that useth milk [is] unskilful in the (note:)In the word that teaches righteousness.(:note) word of righteousness: for he is a babe.

geneva@Hebrews:7:1 @ For this (note:)Declaring those words, «According to the order of Melchizedek» upon which the comparison of the priesthood of Christ with the Levitical priesthood rests: first, Melchizedek himself is considered to be the type of Christ and these are the points of that comparison. Melchizedek was a king and a priest, as is Christ alone. He was a king of peace and righteousness as is Christ alone.(:note) Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and With a solemn and priestly blessing. blessed him;

geneva@Hebrews:7:2 @ To whom also Abraham gaue the tithe of all things: who first is by interpretation King of righteousnes: after that, he is also King of Salem, that is, King of peace,

geneva@Hebrews:8:12 @ For I will bee mercifull to their vnrighteousnes, and I wil remember their sinnes and their iniquities no more.

geneva@Hebrews:11:33 @ Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained (note:)The fruit of the promises.(:note) promises, stopped the mouths of lions,

geneva@Hebrews:12:11 @ Now no chastising for the present seemeth to be ioyous, but, grieuous: but afterwarde, it bringeth the quiet fruite of righteousnesse, vnto them which are thereby exercised.

geneva@James:1:20 @ For the wrath of man worketh not the (note:)That which God appoints.(:note) righteousness of God.

geneva@James:2:23 @ And the scripture was (note:)Then the Scripture was fulfilled, when it appeared plainly how truly it was written about Abraham.(:note) fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.

geneva@1Peter:2:5 @ Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, (note:)Continuing, he compares us now to priests, placed for this purpose in the spiritual temple, that we should serve him with a spiritual worship, that is, with holiness and righteousness: but as the temple, so is the priesthood built upon Christ, in who alone all our spiritual offerings are accepted.(:note) an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

geneva@1Peter:2:23 @ Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but (note:)He shows them a remedy against injuries, that is, that they commend their cause to God, by the example of Christ.(:note) committed [himself] to him He seems now to turn his speech to masters, who have also themselves a master and judge in heaven, who will justly avenge the injuries that are done to servants, without any respecting of people. that judgeth righteously:

geneva@1Peter:3:12 @ For the eyes of the Lord [are] over the righteous, and his ears [are open] unto their prayers: but the (note:)This word «face» after the manner of the Hebrews, is taken for «anger».(:note) face of the Lord [is] against them that do evil.

geneva@1Peter:3:14 @ But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy [are ye]: (note:)A most certain counsel in afflictions, be they never so terrible, to be of a steady mind and to stand fast. But how shall we attain to it? If we sanctify God in our minds and hearts, that is to say, if we rest upon him as one that is almighty that loves mankind, that is good and true indeed.(:note) and be not afraid of their Be not dismayed as they are. terror, neither be troubled;

geneva@1Peter:3:15 @ But (note:)Give him all prayers and glory, and hang only on him.(:note) sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: He will have us, when we are afflicted for righteousness sake, to be careful not for redeeming of our life, either with denying or renouncing the truth, or with like violence, or any such means: but rather to give an account of our faith boldly, and yet with a meek spirit, and full of godly reverence, that the enemies may not have anything justly to object, but may rather be ashamed of themselves. and [be] ready always to [give] an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:

geneva@1Peter:4:18 @ And if the righteous scarcely bee saued, where shall the vngodly and the sinner appeare?

geneva@2Peter:1:1 @ Simon (note:)A greeting, in which he gives them to understand that he deals with them as Christ's ambassadors, and otherwise agrees with them in the same faith which is grounded on the righteousness of Jesus Christ, our God and Saviour.(:note) Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the In that God, in standing by his promises, showed himself faithful, and therefore just to us. righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:

geneva@2Peter:2:5 @ And spared not the (note:)Which was before the flood: not that God made a new world, but because the world seemed new.(:note) old world, but saved Noah the eighth [person], a For one hundred and twenty years, he did not cease to warn the wicked both by word and deed, of the wrath of God hanging over their heads. preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

geneva@2Peter:2:8 @ (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in (note:)Whatever way he looked, and turned his ears.(:note) seeing and hearing, He had a troubled soul, and being vehemently grieved, lived a painful life. vexed [his] righteous soul from day to day with [their] unlawful deeds;)

geneva@2Peter:2:9 @ The Lord (note:)Has been long practised in saving and delivering the righteous.(:note) knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:

geneva@2Peter:2:13 @ And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, [as] they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots [they are] and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings (note:)When by being among the Christians in the holy banquets which the Church keeps, they would seem by that to be true members of the Church, yet they are indeed but blots on the Church.(:note) while they feast with you;

geneva@2Peter:2:15 @ Which forsaking the right way, haue gone astray, folowing the way of Balaam, the sonne of Bosor, which loued the wages of vnrighteousnes.

geneva@2Peter:2:21 @ For it had bene better for them, not to haue acknowledged the way of righteousnes, then after they haue acknowledged it, to turne from the holy commaundement giuen vnto them.

geneva@2Peter:3:13 @ Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, (note:)In which heavens.(:note) wherein dwelleth righteousness.

geneva@1John:2:1 @ My (note:)It does not follow that we must give our wicked nature free rein, or sin much more freely, because our sins are cleansed by the blood of Christ, but we must rather much more diligently resist sin, and yet we must not despair because of our weakness, for we have an advocate and a purger, Christ Jesus the Just, and therefore acceptable to his Father.(:note) little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an In that be names Christ, he eliminates all others. advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: