The Righteousness of God<\/a>.<\/p>\n\tQuestion:<\/h2>\n
Thank you, Jeffrey.<\/p>\n
It will be a topic of study in the near future with my Pentecostal friend. I’m very thankful for preachers like you who have put in the time to understand translations. Are there other resources I should have for word study, besides Vines, Strongs, and Youngs? Any advice is appreciated<\/p>\n
Thanks.<\/p>\n\t
Answer:<\/h2>\n
The vast majority of the time, you only need your Bible. The only reason I went back to the Hebrew and Greek was that your friend made a claim about the translation of a word. Even here it wasn’t necessary. A person merely has to point out that if what he claimed was true, then a proper translation would have “giving” in every place where “righteousness” appears; yet, there isn’t one English translation that does so. Since hundreds of actual language scholars disagree, then his argument has no merit.<\/p>\n
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Response,<\/h2>\n
Thank you,<\/p>\n
What you said makes perfect sense especially since there are so many translations.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Question: Brother Jeffrey, I hope you have time to answer. I was speaking with a Pentecostal fellow who tried to redefine righteousness as sadaca (giving) from the Old Testament. I knew this was wrong but didn’t have a great answer. I thought about Romans 1:16-17,\u00a0 the passage he was trying to redefine. 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