It pleased the LORD, for his righteousness' sake, to magnify the law, and make it honourable.
John 16:10 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 of righteousness, because I go to the Father, and ye behold me no more; More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition About righteousness (uprightness of heart and right standing with God), because I go to My Father, and you will see Me no longer; American Standard Version (1901) of righteousness, because I go to the Father, and ye behold me no more; Common English Bible He will show the world it was wrong about righteousness because I’m going to the Father and you won’t see me anymore. Catholic Public Domain Version about justice, truly, because I am going to the Father, and you will not see me any longer; Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And of justice: because I go to the Father; and you shall see me no longer. |
It pleased the LORD, for his righteousness' sake, to magnify the law, and make it honourable.
Seventy weeks are decreed upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.
I came out from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go unto the Father.
But now I go unto him that sent me; and none of you asketh me, Whither goest thou?
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
It is another that beareth witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true.
Jesus therefore said, Yet a little while am I with you, and I go unto him that sent me.
inasmuch as he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
But ye denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted unto you,
Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? and they killed them which shewed before of the coming of the Righteous One; of whom ye have now become betrayers and murderers;
For therein is revealed a righteousness of God by faith unto faith: as it is written, But the righteous shall live by faith.
But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who was made unto us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:
Him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; that we might become the righteousness of God in him.
And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness; He who was manifested in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen of angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, received up in glory.
Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God; being put to death in the flesh, but quickened in the spirit;