Is it any pleasure to the Almighty if you are righteous, or is it gain to him if you make your ways blameless? Is it for your piet...y that he reproves you, and enters into judgment with you?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man who fears God and turns awa...y from evil.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If anyone else has reason to be confident in the flesh, I have more: circumcised on the eighth day, a member of the people of Isra...el, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew born of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee; as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the law, blameless.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If a man desireth the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigil...ant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach; not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous; one that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity; (for if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?).LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do is to avoid sexual intercourse like ...the plague.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A soul that makes virtue its companion is like an over-flowing well, for it is clean and pellucid, sweet and wholesome, open to al...l, rich, blameless and indestructible.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The kinship between the Prometheus myth and the Book of Job is obvious enough. Both heroes, blameless and upright, suffer at the h...and, or at least by the leave, of the Supreme Deity. But the Book of Job ends in the utter confusion of man's intelligence. "There have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not ... Wherefore I abhor myself and repent in dust and ashes." The stricken Titan, on the contrary, in the closing words of Aeschylus's tragedy, still protests against his "wrongs." We feel that the Greeks could not have stopped at that point; their spirit was not one of Shelleyan defiance or Byronic despair.... Higher than the caprices and pride of Zeus, higher also than the desperate endeavor of Prometheus, stands intelligent law.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »