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I find it interesting that the last Biblical book on righteousness would amount to a treatise on righteousness.  Just in the first 10 verses (2 Peter 1 - From righteousness to righteousness: Re-created in God’s Image, 2 Peter 1: Righteousness Leads to Christ’s Love Manifested in You), we have seen confirmation of the following:

Jesus is righteous, and through Him we receive righteousness (v. 1)
Jesus provides us promises that we should believe (v. 4), and of course belieiving is accounted to us righteousness
We are to love others in obedience (vv. 5-8)
Lack of obedience …

In 2 Peter 1 - From righteousness to righteousness: Re-created in God’s Image I wrote,
When accused of wrong-doing, Christ said nothing to His accusers.  Having established for the scriptures that the judgements of evil-doers has no weight, He refused to take a defensive stand against them.  Though making it appear like He was legitimizing their judgement, it is defending Himself in their court that would have legitimized their right to make such judgement over Him.  He simply yielded to show the extent to which He would go for the love of His sheep, letting sinners follow through on their sin so that He could follow …

 1Simon 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:

 2Grace and peace be yours in abundance through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.
Peter is writing this letter to Christians.  He starts out with the clear message that we have received our faith from Jesus.  Knowing that our faith is our belief in God and obedience to Him, it would seem that we have received our rightouesness through God’s righteousness.  This confirms the writings of Paul, which tell us that by being accounted righteousness for belief, we have the opportunity to be just …

So, here are. The last book in the bible on Righteousness!  I always found it interesting that the very first verse in the bible on righteousness tells us how to get it… believe God, and the 2nd tells us how to use it… obey God.  From there, scripture simply uses the terms, only occasionally referencing back to these two verses.  It’s like God did not assume we knew what righteousness was, and so made sure those first verses would tell us.  This set the stage for the rest of our word study this last year.  Well, now we come to the last book on righteousness, 2 Peter, and wouldn’t you know… God assumes we know what righteousness is by now!

In …

The actual righteousness verse is 1 Peter 2:24, which reads as follows:
24He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed.
It’s a simple verse, but there’s a lot to it.  Primarily, what does Peter mean by living for righteousness?  Is he referring to believing, or to obeying?  In short, to obeying, because he speaking to a crowd that already believes, as he opens in his letter (emphasis mine):
 1Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ,
      To God’s elect, strangers in the world, scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia, 2who have been chosen according to the …

 13Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show it by his good life, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom. 14But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast about it or deny the truth. 15Such “wisdom” does not come down from heaven but is earthly, unspiritual, of the devil. 16For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice.

 17But the wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure; then peace-loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere. 18Peacemakers …

http://www.livescience.com/history/earliest-hebrew-text-100115.html

Says the oldest known Hebrew writing was 600B.C., and it now 1000 B.C. Yet, my own study Bible has scriptures being written long before even that.  Interesting.

I googled on what language Moses wrote in, and found this blog posting.  Good reading: http://gotbible.blogspot.com/2007/07/did-moses-write-pentateuch.html

In my last post, I attempted to explain James’ assertion that faith without works is dead.  I re-read my post, and though I said it was now simple, what I wrote isn’t.  Sorry about that.  Sometimes I get a picture in my head, and the picture is simple to look at… in my head.  How to get you to see it?
 20You foolish man, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is useless? 21Was not our ancestor Abraham considered righteous for what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar? 22You see that his faith and his actions were working together, and his faith was made complete by …

 20You foolish man, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is useless? 21Was not our ancestor Abraham considered righteous for what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar? 22You see that his faith and his actions were working together, and his faith was made complete by what he did. 23And the scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,” and he was called God’s friend. 24You see that a person is justified by what he does and not by faith alone.
I’m used to a slightly different translation of verse 20: “Faith without …

Has God ever seen you though something you weren’t sure you were supposed to do? How about something you were sure about, but you did it anyway? He saw you through that, too, didn’t He?  Well, that’s the kind of God He is.  But, here’s the thing… God will lead into things you wouldn’t expect Him to, and then seem to go silent as you cope with the most difficult situation you’ve ever faced.  Sometimes, that’s just how it is.  Other times, it brings on transformational change, as you make changes in yourself, your outlook, your attitude… and these are the times that came to mind as I read through Hebrews 12, leading in to our next scripture on righteousness. 
 1Therefore, since we are …