Qualifications for Elders

1342 - JUST / RIGHTEOUS

1342 dikaios (dik'-ah-yos)
from 1349;

AV-righteous 41, just 33, right 5, meet 2; 81
1) righteous, observing divine laws
1a) in a wide sense, upright, righteous, virtuous, keeping the commands of God
1a1) of those who seem to themselves to be righteous, who pride themselves to be righteous, who pride themselves in their virtues, whether real or imagined
1a2) innocent, faultless, guiltless
1a3) used of him whose way of thinking, feeling, and acting is wholly conformed to the will of God, and who therefore needs no rectification in the heart or life
1a3a) only Christ truly
1a4) approved of or acceptable of God
1b) in a narrower sense, rendering to each his due and that in a judicial sense, passing just judgment on others, whether expressed in words or shown by the manner of dealing with them 		NEW TESTAMENT USAGE

Hebrews 10:38 Now the just <1342> shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.

Hebrews 11:4 By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous <1342>, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.

Hebrews 12:23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men <1342> made perfect,

James 5:6 Ye have condemned and killed the just <1342>; and he doth not resist you.

James 5:16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man <1342> availeth much.

1 Peter 3:12 For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous <1342>, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.

1 Peter 3:18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just <1342> for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:

1 Peter 4:18 And if the righteous <1342> scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?

2 Peter 1:13 Yea, I think it meet <1342>, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;

2 Peter 2:7 And delivered just <1342> Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:

2 Peter 2:8 (For that righteous man <1342> dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous <1342> soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)

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