Righteousness

2 Peter 1:1  

Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ have received a faith as precious as ours:

2 Peter 1:3 

His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.

2 Peter 2:5  

if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others;

2 Peter 2:21  

It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than to have known it and then to turn their backs on the sacred command that was passed on to them.

2 Peter 3:11  

Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be? You ought to live holy and godly lives

2 Peter 3:13  

But in keeping with his promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, the home of righteousness.

1 John 2:29  

If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who does what is right has been born of him.

1 John 3:7  

Dear children, do not let anyone lead you astray. He who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous.

1 John 3:10  

This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not a child of God; nor is anyone who does not love his brother.

An Imperfect Family

 “Jesus had to be made like his brothers . . . so he could be their merciful and faithful high priest.”  Hebrews 2:17

Jesus displays the bad apples of his family tree in the first chapter of the New Testament . . . Rahab was a Jericho

harlot . . . David had a personality as irregular as a Picasso painting—one day writing Psalms, another day seducing his captain’s wife. But did Jesus erase his name from the list? Not at all .

If your family tree has bruised fruit, then Jesus wants you to know, “I’ve been there.”… - Max Lucado