With all that taken into consideration, I think the WikiLeaks releases furnish us with an opportunity to observe the upper reaches of the American status hierarchy in all its righteousness and majesty.
But Jesus adds a new dimension to baptism by declaring to John, "Let it be so now, for it is proper for us in this way to fulfill all righteousness" (3:15).
His entire story is saturated in righteousness; all the hardships he endures are redeemed by the solidarity of the faithful, whose superiority to non-Muslims is taken for granted.
The roots of the grass, the dreamers of the dream, the vox of the populi, the common man in all his upstanding righteousness".
Yet Hosea assures us that God promises even the most unworthy of us who fail to love unwaveringly and graciously like God, "I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love, and in mercy.
What important is man should live in righteousness, in natural love for mankind.
The "alienating rhetoric," an example of which is cited above, is concentrated only in a few chapters of the Book of Lord Shang; most other display more accommodative views toward traditional moral values; some even promise that "the sage ruler" would be able to "implement benevolence and righteousness in All under Heaven" (Shang jun shu 13: 82; see also detailed discussion in Pines 2012).
The ideal ruler, the new David, would reestablish the kingdom in its own land (in Zion, or Palestine) and would reign in righteousness, equity, justice, and truth, thus bringing into being the holy nation and summoning all humankind to dwell under divine sovereignty.
Her power, though, lies in her righteousness.
Now the hero was not so sure in his righteousness.
