Sentence examples for righteous with the from inspiring English sources

"That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked … and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?" Abraham, so painfully obedient, dares to confront God and teach him a lesson in equity and justice.

We no longer have to comply with the prohibition of killing the righteous with the wicked.

The latter, assuming the title of al-Rashid bi'llah ("Righteous with God"), succeeded in winning the recognition of the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, and went to Ramlah.

The hope was that persistent statesmanship would outlast righteous anger, with the charges then quietly disappearing.

The scary thing here is how much they're *not* trolling, how desperate and how earnest they truly are, how sincerely they view themselves as a righteous minority with the world arrayed against them.

A friend recently told me he had become disillusioned and no longer had the righteous indignation with the world that I did, and I thought to myself, secretly, that it had to be because I'm HIV-positive.

The students' "complete frustration and almost righteous indignation" with the government, as Brown put it, has a recent historical parallel: activism against the Iraq War, which reshaped the Democratic Party and catalyzed a generation of progressive leaders.

Other record labels may not be so righteous with their artists (although the Black Keys appear to have successfully withheld their latest album).

He refrains from burdening us with implications of mystical portent — a weak suit of intermittently impressive artist-shamans from Joseph Beuys to Matthew Barney — or, like hosts of the politically righteous, with exhortations to improve our moral hygiene.

Lean closer, hear our clear (yet controversial) arguments for either side of the argument, and let us cool your fires of self-righteous indignation with the whisper: "It's OK, baby – it's the world that's wrong".

"The only thing Nathaniel talked about was getting himself righteous with God and marrying me," she said.