Blessings are upon the head of the righteous (man or woman), their: lips feed many memory is blessed mouth is a well of life labor tends to life walk is sure tongue is as choice silver desire shall be granted hope is gladness lips know what is acceptable mouth brings forth wisdom integrity shall guide them righteousness shall direct their steps life shall be delivered and seed also desire is only good. When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted Righteousness exalts a nation Proverbs 10 and 11 above, declare the fruit of righteousness. Who is righteous? All who are in Christ. “But of Him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness,…:” 1 Corinthians 1:30 How do I get it? “Abraham believed God… it was counted unto him as…
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Baltimore Maryland Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: Philippians 3:8-9. For if by one man’s offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ. Rom 5:17 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness…
Proverbs 30:18 three things are too wonderful for me; four I do not understand: Proverbs 30:19 the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a serpent on a rock, the way of a ship on the high seas, and the way of a man with a virgin. These first three cannot be tracked, neither the fourth. The illustration builds on natural phenomena. So the true believer in Christ goes similarly, only theirs operates on spiritual phenomena. The spiritual life carries untraceable as much as the bird, snake, ship, or man with virgin; yet even more-so. See, the blood of Christ cleanses our sin beyond hint, suggestion, tinge, or smidgen of remembrance. It carries our sin into the forgetting determination of an Almighty God as a permanent washing. As far as the east is from the west, into the depth of the sea, and to a land uninhabited our sin has gone.…