Justifying vs Righteous - What's the difference?
justifying | righteous |
free from sin or guilt
moral and virtuous, suggesting sanctimonious
justified morally
(slang, US) awesome
To make righteous; specifically, to justify religiously, to absolve from sin.
* 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 101:
As verbs the difference between justifying and righteous
is that justifying is while righteous is to make righteous; specifically, to justify religiously, to absolve from sin.As an adjective righteous is
free from sin or guilt.righteous
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* (l), (l)Adjective
(en adjective)Derived terms
* righteousness * self-righteousVerb
(es)- Thus for the purposes of being ‘righteoused ’, the Law was irrelevant; yet Paul could not bear to see all the Law disappear.