Righteousness
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Righteousness (also called rectitude) is an important theological concept in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. It is an attribute that implies that a person's actions are justified, and can have the connotation that the person has been "judged" or "reckoned" as leading a life that is pleasing to God.
William Tyndale remodelled the word after an earlier word rihtwis, which would have yielded modern English *rightwise or *rightways. He used it to translate the Hebrew root צדקים (TzDYQ), tzedek, which appears more than five hundred times in the Hebrew Bible, and the Greek word δικαιος (dikaios), which appears more than two hundred times in the New Testament.
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See also
- Alien righteousness
- Asha
- Biblical law in Christianity
- Christian perfection
- Expounding of the Law
- Imparted righteousness
- Imputed righteousness
- Justice, the ideal, morally correct state of things and persons.
- Justification
- Pono for righteousness in Hawaiian culture.
- Proper righteousness
- Rashidun Mahdi for the Islamic concept of righteousness.
- Right
- Righteous Among the Nations
- Holiness
- Salvation
- Sanctification
- Self-righteousness
- The Righteous Mind
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