Does the fruit of the poison-tree of unrighteousness ever ripen sweet?
For who is able to work suchunrighteousness in my realm?
And the cause of all this that has befallen you is the slight stain of unrighteousness which attaches to you, on account of your having slain with that weapon of Brahma, which you employed, old men and children.
Jesus Christ does not speak in my text about the righteousness or the unrighteousness of these two courses of conduct.
Wis 1:5 For the holy spirit of discipline will flee deceit, and remove from thoughts that are without understanding, and will not abide when unrighteousness cometh in.
Sir 35:3 To depart from wickedness is a thing pleasing to the Lord; and to forsake unrighteousness is a propitiation.
Then the other Paraclete acts in the conscience, produces repentance and confession, and brings the soul back into the light in the sweet sense that the sin is forgiven, the unrighteousness cleansed, and the communion perfectly restored.
To be cleansed from unrighteousness is more than to be forgiven our sins; and David desired the latter, as well as the former.
The old version runs like this: "Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness that when ye fail they may receive you into everlasting habitations.
The revised version, both English and American, reads this way: "Make to yourselves friends by means of the mammon of unrighteousnessthat when it shall fail they may receive you into the eternal tabernacles.
It has been said, By unrighteousness men prosper, gain what they desire, and triumph over their enemies, but at the end they are cut off at the root and suffer extinction.
Is not the creation of righteousness the creation of a natural order and government of one another in the parts of the soul, and the creation of unrighteousness the opposite?
Is not unrighteousness equally suicidal when existing in an individual [as it is when it exists in the State], rendering him incapable of action because he is not at unity with himself, making him an enemy to himself?
But if our unrighteousness sets God's righteousness in a clearer light, what shall we say?
The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men,' and he proceeds to demonstrate the prevalence of sin first of all in the heathen world and to lay bare its meaning.
Here is an {78} actual disclosure of the wrath of God upon all unrighteousness and sin.
But if, as your teaching proves, all our unrighteousnessis made to serve as a background on which God makes His righteousness all the more evident--that is enough.
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold down the truth in unrighteousness; because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God manifested it unto them.
But if our unrighteousness commendeth the righteousness of God, what shall we say?
Her own wealth, from a vague sense of unrighteousness in the possession of it, was such a burden to her, that she threw it away where often it made other people stumble if not fall.
Social standing in the eyes of the super excellent few of fashion was the Satan of unrighteousness worshipped around her.
While this Practice is continued, and under a great Load of Guilt there is more Unrighteousness committed, the State of Things is very moving!
Now the fine old Quaker is perturbed over the question of tainted money: "Have the gifts and possessions received by me from others been conveyed in a way free from all unrighteousness so far as I have seen?
On such terms of unrighteousness what we may call 'Grand Monarchy' established itself in France.
There was the Reformation according to the people, who sought to make Christianity a power against unrighteousness, and particularly against the unrighteousness of the rich and powerful.
Ye shall do no unrighteousnessin judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.
Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.
For ye know that there is no unrighteousness in them, and that which is righteous cometh down from above, from the Father of lights; 10.
Such men are described in the Book of Wisdom who say: "Let unrighteousness be our law," 2, 11.
In this way the honor of sex and the dignity of matrimony are conserved: accusation is brought solely against the unrighteousness which first departs from God and then manifests itself in injuring the saints.
Thus Moses gives an account of the prevailing unrighteousness and lust.
In the context, the prophet contrasts the unrighteousness of those who used the labor of others without pay, with the justice and equity practiced by their patriarchal ancestor toward the poor.
Has not her very wealth vanished from her, because she sold herself to work all unrighteousness with greediness?
These men saw that man ought to be like God; and they saw that God was righteous and good; and they saw, therefore, that unrighteousness and sin must end in ruin and everlasting misery.
Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
Neither give ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: But give yourselves unto God, as they that are alive from death.
If our unrighteousness make the righteousness of God more excellent: what shall we say?
But he that seeketh his praise that sent him, he is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.
All unrighteousness is sin, and there is sin not unto death.
For the wrath of God of heaven appeareth against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men which withhold the truth in unrighteousness, seeing that that, which may be known of God, is manifest among them.
Further, since righteousness alone can raise men above the level of humanity, it must needs be that unrighteousness degrades below man's level those whom it has cast out of man's estate.
Verily, other men's unrighteousness cannot pluck from righteous souls their proper glory.
Up to that hour Isaiah was conscious only of the fact that something must be done in Judah to save it from the evils of injustice and unrighteousness that were being practiced by the rich and powerful upon the poor and weak.
By an act of unrighteousness also was the son of Subhadra slain.
On this side, it was by an act of unrighteousnessthat Bhishma, the Kuru grandsire, was slain.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unrighteousness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
