And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
Parallel translations
- WEB They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.
- BSB Both of them were righteous in the sight of God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and decrees of the Lord.
- NKJV And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
- NASB They were both righteous in the sight of God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and requirements of the Lord.
- NLT Zechariah and Elizabeth were righteous in God’s eyes, careful to obey all of the Lord’s commandments and regulations.
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Zacharias and Elizabeth were genuinely righteous, obeying God's commands blamelessly. They were faithful covenant believers, not sinless but devout.
Overview
Their righteousness describes sincere, wholehearted obedience and faith, not moral perfection. Scripture commends them as examples of godly Israelites awaiting God's salvation. Such uprightness flows from grace and points forward to the perfect righteousness found only in Christ.
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- Gen 7:1And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
- Gen 17:1And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.
- Phil 2:15That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
- 1 Kgs 9:4And if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes and my judgments:
- Job 1:1There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.
- Acts 24:16And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.
- Col 1:22In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:
- 2 Pet 3:14Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
- Titus 3:3–7For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
- 1 Th 3:13To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.
- Job 1:8And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?
- Titus 2:11–14For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,
- Phil 3:6–9Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.
- 1 Jn 2:3And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
- 1 Jn 3:7Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
- 2 Kgs 20:3I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.
- Gen 6:9These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
- Acts 23:1And Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.
- 1 Jn 2:29If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.
- Ps 119:6Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments.
- Rom 3:9–25What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;
- 1 Cor 11:2Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you.
- Job 9:2I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?
- 2 Cor 1:12For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
- Luke 16:15And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.
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