Luke 1:6 Cross References - Moffatt

⁶ They were both just in the sight of God, blameless in their obedience to all the commands and regulations of God;

¹⁵ So he told them, "You are the people who get men to think you are good, but God knows what your hearts are! What is lofty in the view of man is loathsome in the eyes of God.

¹ With a steady look at the Sanhedrin Paul said, "Brothers, I have lived with a perfectly good conscience before God down to the present day."

¹⁶ Hence I too endeavour to have a clear conscience before God and men all the time.

⁹ Well now, are we Jews in a better position? Not at all. I have already charged all, Jews as well as Greeks, with being under sin — ¹⁰ as it is written, None is righteous, no, not one; ¹¹ no one understands, no one seeks for God. ¹² All have swerved, one and all have gone wrong, no one does good, not a single one. ¹³ Their throat is an open grave, they are treacherous with their tongues, the venom of an asp lies under their lips. ¹⁴ Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness, ¹⁵ their feet are swift for bloodshed, ¹⁶ their ways bring destruction and calamity, ¹⁷ they know nothing of the way of peace; ¹⁸ there is no reverence for God before their eyes. ¹⁹ Whatever the Law says, we know, it says to those who are inside the Law, that every mouth may be shut and all the world made answerable to God; ²⁰ for no person will be acquitted in his sight on the score of obedience to law. What the Law imparts is the consciousness of sin. ²¹ But now we have a righteousness of God disclosed apart from law altogether; it is attested by the Law and the prophets, ²² but it is a righteousness of God which comes by believing in Jesus Christ. And it is meant for all who have faith. No distinctions are drawn. ²³ All have sinned, all come short of the glory of God, ²⁴ but they are justified for nothing by his grace through the ransom provided in Christ Jesus, ²⁵ whom God put forward as the means of propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to demonstrate the justice of God in view of the fact that sins previously committed during the time of God's forbearance had been passed over;

² I commend you for always bearing me in mind and for maintaining the traditions I passed on to you.

¹² My proud boast is the testimony of my conscience that holiness and godly sincerity, not worldly cunning but the grace of God, have marked my conduct in the outside world and in particular my relations with you.

¹⁵ so as to be blameless and innocent, faultless children of God in a crooked and perverse generation where you shine like stars in a dark world;

⁶ in point of ardour a persecutor of the church, immaculate by the standard of legal righteousness. ⁷ But for Christ's sake I have learned to count my former gains a loss; ⁸ indeed I count anything a loss, compared to the supreme value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have lost everything (I count it all the veriest refuse) in order to gain Christ ⁹ and be found at death in him, possessing no legal righteousness of my own but the righteousness of faith in Christ, the divine righteousness that rests on faith.

²² so as to set you consecrated and unblemished and irreproachable in his presence —

¹³ so as to strengthen your hearts and make them blameless in holiness before our God and Father when our Lord Jesus comes with all his holy ones. [Amen.]

¹¹ For the grace of God has appeared to save all men, ¹² and it schools us to renounce irreligion and worldly passions and to live a life of self-mastery, of integrity, and of piety in this present world, ¹³ awaiting the blessed hope of the appearance of the Glory of the great God and of our Saviour Christ Jesus, ¹⁴ who gave himself up for us to redeem us from all iniquity and secure himself a clean people with a zest for good works.

³ For we ourselves were once senseless, disobedient, astray, enslaved to all manner of passions and pleasures; we spent our days in malice and envy, we were hateful, and we hated one another. ⁴ But "the goodness and affection of God our Saviour appeared; ⁵ and he saved us, not for anything we had done but from his own pity for us, by the water that means regeneration and renewal under the holy Spirit ⁶ which he poured upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Saviour, ⁷ that we might be justified by his grace and become heirs to the hope of life eternal."

¹⁴ Then, beloved, as you are expecting this, be eager to be found by him unspotted and unblemished in serene assurance.

³ This is how we may be sure we know him, by obeying his commands.

²⁹ As you know he is just, be sure that everyone who practises righteousness is born of him.

⁷ Let no one deceive you, my dear children: he who practises righteousness is just, as He is just;