Luke 1:6
Good News Translation
They both lived good lives in God's sight and obeyed fully all the Lord's laws and commands.

New Revised Standard Version
Both of them were righteous before God, living blamelessly according to all the commandments and regulations of the Lord.

Contemporary English Version
Both of them were good people and pleased the Lord God by obeying all that he had commanded.

New American Bible
Both were righteous in the eyes of God, observing all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blamelessly.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they were both just before God, walking in all the commandments and justifications of the Lord without blame.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And they were both just before God, walking in all the commandments and justifications of the Lord without blame.

righteous.

Luke 16:15 And he said to them: you are they who justify yourselves before men, but God knoweth your hearts. For that which is high to men is an abomination before God.

Genesis 6:9 These are the generations of Noe: Noe was a just and perfect man in his generations, he walked with God.

Genesis 7:1 And the Lord said to him: Go in, thou and all thy house, into the ark: for thee I have seen just before me in this generation.

Genesis 17:1 And after he began to be ninety and nine years old, the Lord appeared to him: and said unto him: I am the Almighty God: walk before me, and be perfect.

Job 1:1,8 There was a man in the land of Hus, whose name was Job, and that man was simple and upright, and fearing God, and avoiding evil. . . .

Job 9:2 Indeed I know it is so, and that man cannot be justified, compared with God.

Romans 3:9-25 What then? Do we excel them? No, not so. For we have charged both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin. . . .

Philippians 3:6-9 According to zeal, persecuting the church of God: According to the justice that is in the law, conversing without blame. . . .

Titus 3:3-7 For we ourselves also were some time unwise, incredulous, erring, slaves to divers desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another. . . .

walking.

1 Kings 9:4 And if thou wilt walk before me, as thy father walked, in simplicity of heart, and in uprightness: and wilt do all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my ordinances, and my judgments,

2 Kings 20:3 I beseech thee, O Lord, remember how I have walked before thee in truth, and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is pleasing before thee. And Ezechias wept with much weeping.

Psalm 119:6 Then shall I not be confounded, when I shall look into all thy commandments.

Acts 23:1 And Paul, looking upon the council, said: Men, brethren, I have conversed with all good conscience before God until this present day.

Acts 24:16 And herein do I endeavour to have always a conscience without offence, towards God and towards men.

1 Corinthians 11:2 Now I praise you, brethren, that in all things you are mindful of me and keep my ordinances as I have delivered them to you.

2 Corinthians 1:12 For our glory is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity of heart and sincerity of God, and not in carnal wisdom, but in the grace of God, we have conversed in this world: and more abundantly towards you.

Philippians 3:6 According to zeal, persecuting the church of God: According to the justice that is in the law, conversing without blame.

Titus 2:11-14 For the grace of God our Saviour hath appeared to all men: . . .

1 John 2:3,29 And by this we know that we have known him, if we keep his commandments. . . .

1 John 3:7 Little children, let no man deceive you. He that doth justice is just, even as he is just.

blameless.

Philippians 2:15 That you may be blameless and sincere children of God, without reproof, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation: among whom you shine as lights in the world.

Colossians 1:22 Yet now he hath reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unspotted and blameless before him:

1 Thessalonians 3:13 To confirm your hearts without blame, in holiness, before God and our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, with all his saints. Amen.

2 Peter 3:14 Wherefore, dearly beloved, waiting for these things, be diligent that you may be found before him unspotted and blameless in peace.

Context
Gabriel Foretells John's Birth
5There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest named Zachary, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name Elizabeth. 6And they were both just before God, walking in all the commandments and justifications of the Lord without blame. 7And they had no son, for that Elizabeth was barren: and they both were well advanced in years.…
Cross References
Genesis 7:1
And the Lord said to him: Go in, thou and all thy house, into the ark: for thee I have seen just before me in this generation.

Deuteronomy 5:33
But you shall walk in the way that the Lord your God hath commanded, that you may live, and it may be well with you, and your days may be long in the land of your possession.

1 Kings 15:5
Because David had done that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, and had not turned aside from any thing that he commanded him, all the days of his life, except the matter of Urias, the Hethite.

Luke 1:7
And they had no son, for that Elizabeth was barren: and they both were well advanced in years.

Luke 2:25
And behold there was a man in Jerusalem named Simeon: and this man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel. And the Holy Ghost was in him.

Acts 2:25
For David saith concerning him: I foresaw the Lord before my face: because he is at my right hand, that I may not be moved.

Acts 8:21
Thou hast no part nor lot in this matter. For thy heart is not right in the sight of God.

Romans 8:4
That the justification of the law might be fulfilled in us who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the spirit.

Philippians 2:15
That you may be blameless and sincere children of God, without reproof, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation: among whom you shine as lights in the world.

Philippians 3:6
According to zeal, persecuting the church of God: According to the justice that is in the law, conversing without blame.

1 Thessalonians 3:13
To confirm your hearts without blame, in holiness, before God and our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, with all his saints. Amen.

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