All 7 Uses
righteous
in
The Shack
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- My goodness, you didn't think you could live the righteousness of God on your own, did you?
Chpt 14. *righteousness = morally correct behavior
- Mack had never heard "funk" talked about in any properly righteous terms.†
Chpt 6.
- I suppose, at least I have been taught, that it's a set of rules that you expected humans to obey in order to live righteously in your good graces.†
Chpt 14.
- "If that were true, which it is not," Sarayu countered, "then how many do you think lived righteously enough to enter our good graces?"†
Chpt 14.
- Actually, we wanted you to give up trying to be righteous on your own.†
Chpt 14.
- "But as I'm sure you know there are many," responded Mack, "who think they are made righteous by following the rules."†
Chpt 14.
- They don't produce one speck of wholeness or righteousness, and that is why they were nailed into Jesus on the cross.†
Chpt 16.
Definitions:
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(1)
(righteous as in: a righteous cause) morally correct; or morally justified
or:
acting or feeling morally superior -- especially when it isn't true (this meaning is more typically seen as a compound word "self-righteous") -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) wonderful