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In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.
Luke 1:75 · King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB 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 that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
  • Eph 2:10For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
  • Titus 2:11–14For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,
  • 2 Tim 1:9Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
  • Jer 31:33–34But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
  • Eph 1:4According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
  • 1 Th 4:7For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.
  • Matt 1:21And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he 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 for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them:
  • Ps 105:44–45And gave them the lands of the heathen: and they inherited the labour of the people;
  • Ezek 36:24–27For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.
  • 1 Th 4:1Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.
  • 2 Th 2:13But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
  • 1 Pet 1:14–16As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
  • 2 Pet 1:4–8Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
  • Deut 6:2That thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son’s son, all the days of thy life; and that thy 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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