Our Bible Reading

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Mar 7, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 10.

Our Bible Reading

Righteousness and Life

1. Who only is righteous?

And He said unto him, Why callest thou Me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments. Matt. 19: 17.

For the righteous Lord loveth righteousness; His countenance doth behold the upright. Ps. 11: 7.

The Lord is righteous in all His ways, and holy in all His works. Ps. 145: 17.

2. Who only is the source of life?

For with Thee is the fountain of life: in Thy light shall we see light. Ps. 36: 9.

3. Who are subject to death?

For the wages of sin is death. Rom. 6: 23.

The soul that sinneth, it shall die. Eze. 18: 4.

4. Who is the primal cause of death?

Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, He also Himself likewise took part of the same; that through death He might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil. Heb. 2: 14.

5. What is the only way out of death into life?

In the way of righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof there is no death. Prov. 12: 28.

6. In whom alone may we obtain righteousness?

And their righteousness is of Me, saith the Lord. Isa. 54: 17.

7. How may we obtain righteousness?

For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; being JUSTIFIED FREELY by His grace through the redemption that is IN CHRIST JESUS: whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in His blood, to declare HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God. Rom. 3: 23-25.

8. But in that faith what else do we obtain in Him?

And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that YE MAY KNOW THAT YE HAVE ETERNAL LIFE, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God. 1 John 5: 11-13.