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In holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our life.
Luke 1:75 · World English Bible
Parallel translations
  • KJV In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.
  • BSB in holiness and righteousness before Him all the days of our lives.
  • NKJV In holiness and righteousness before Him all the days of our life.
  • NASB In holiness and righteousness before Him all our days.
  • NLT in holiness and righteousness for as long as we live.

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Quick answer

Redeemed people are to serve God in holiness and righteousness all their days. It matters because salvation aims at a transformed, God-honoring life.

Overview

Zechariah describes the character of the freed life: holiness and righteousness lived continually before God. This is the goal of redemption, not a means of earning it. In Christ believers are both declared righteous and progressively shaped into holiness for a lifetime of obedient worship.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 16

  • Eph 4:24and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.
  • Eph 2:10For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.
  • Titus 2:11–14For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men,
  • 2 Tim 1:9who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,
  • Jer 31:33–34“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people:
  • Eph 1:4even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love;
  • 1 Th 4:7For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.
  • Matt 1:21She shall give birth to a son. You shall call his name Jesus, for it is he who shall save his people from their sins.”
  • Jer 32:39–40and I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their good, and of their children after them:
  • Ps 105:44–45He gave them the lands of the nations. They took the labor of the peoples in possession,
  • Ezek 36:24–27For I will take you from among the nations, and gather you out of all the countries, and will bring you into your own land.
  • 1 Th 4:1Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.
  • 2 Th 2:13But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth;
  • 1 Pet 1:14–16as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,
  • 2 Pet 1:4–8by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.
  • Deut 6:2that you might fear Yahweh your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you; you, and your son, and your son’s son, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged.

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Christ at the center

Luke shows Jesus the Savior for all — outsiders, the poor, the nations — the one who, on the Emmaus road, opened all the Scriptures to show they were about himself.

How Luke 1:75 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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