in holiness and righteousness before Him all the days of our lives.
Parallel translations
- WEB In holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our life.
- KJV In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.
- 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.
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Cross-references · 16
- Eph 4:24and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.
- Eph 2:10For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.
- Titus 2:11–14For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to everyone.
- 2 Tim 1:9He has saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works, but by His own purpose and by the grace He granted us in Christ Jesus before time began.
- Jer 31:33–34“But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.
- Eph 1:4For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence. In love
- 1 Th 4:7For God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness.
- Matt 1:21She will give birth to a Son, and you are to give Him the name Jesus, because He will save His people from their sins.”
- Jer 32:39–40I will give them one heart and one way, so that they will always fear Me for their own good and for the good of their children after them.
- Ps 105:44–45He gave them the lands of the nations, that they might inherit the fruit of others’ labor,
- Ezek 36:24–27For I will take you from among the nations and gather you out of all the countries, and I will bring you back into your own land.
- 1 Th 4:1Finally, brothers, we ask and encourage you in the Lord Jesus to live in a way that is pleasing to God, just as you have received from us. This is how you already live, so you should do so all the more.
- 2 Th 2:13But we should always thank God for you, brothers who are loved by the Lord, because God has chosen you from the beginning to be saved by the sanctification of the Spirit and by faith in the truth.
- 1 Pet 1:14–16As obedient children, do not conform to the passions of your former ignorance.
- 2 Pet 1:4–8Through these He has given us His precious and magnificent promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, now that you have escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.
- Deut 6:2so that you and your children and grandchildren may fear the LORD your God all the days of your lives by keeping all His statutes and commandments that I give you, and so that your days may be prolonged.
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