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It is a way of life too... Just like it was righteous of Noah not only to have faith in what God required of him but to do it.
When Abraham asked if the righteous in Sodom and Gomorrah were going to be doomed along with the wicked, Abraham was asking about those who were good people living in the faith in the city. Maybe not perfectly righteously like Yeshua did when He walked the earth. But righteous in comparison...Genesis 7:1
And 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.
In order to know what God considers righteous, one needs to learn from Him.Genesis 18:23
And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?
righteousness comes in the way things are handled in life..
Leviticus 19:15
Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.
but it was also their downfall.. because they thought that they could do it without His Spirit and in their own strength..Deuteronomy 1:16
And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.
It was the very thing that made Israel so great in the eyes of God..
Deuteronomy 4:8
And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?
They jumped on a bandwagon before they truly knew what God was really asking of them.Deuteronomy 6:25
And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the LORD our God, as he hath commanded us.
Now we are in the same position, to do things our way and declare it right, or to do it His Way and know He is right.Deuteronomy 9:6
Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked people.