Bible Dictionary: Uprightness: God Has Pleasure In

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Torrey's Topical Textbook

1 Chronicles 29:17
I know also, my God, that you try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things: and now have I seen with joy your people, which are present here, to offer willingly to you.
Torrey's Topical Textbook

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What Doest Thou Here?
... bit of string is taken off the sapling, it starts back to its original uprightness. ...
being to make myself by God's help such a character as God has pleasure in? ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture f/what doest thou here.htm

Enoch, the Deathless
... 6). The other is uprightness""I know also, my God, that Thou hast pleasure in
uprightness" (1 Chronicles 29 ... The unbeliever distrusts God, and has no fellow ...
/.../milligan/men of the bible some lesser-known/enoch the deathless.htm

Our Attitude Toward Destructive Criticism.
... and ever, and are done in truth and uprightness." Psalm 111 ... The attitude which God's
people should assume toward destructive criticism has been questioned ...
/.../i our attitude toward destructive.htm

Doing Glory to God in Pursuits of the World.
... it is a fatal sin, for Christ Himself has said so ... are not satisfied with the correctness
or uprightness of some ... if they are at present not serving God with all ...
/.../newman/parochial and plain sermons vol viii/sermon xi doing glory to.htm

Joseph Addison.
... A mind conscious of its own uprightness, and humbly trusting in the goodness of
God, has the best ... sweetly expressive of the peace and pleasure which he ...
//christianbookshelf.org/hayward/the book of religions/joseph addison.htm

Be not Deceived; God is not Mocked.
... Let every one, therefore, cultivate a sincerity and uprightness of heart at all
times, and it will ... Bear in mind, the God of the Bible has never deceived ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/moody/sowing and reaping/chapter ii be not deceived.htm

God with Us, and we with God
... not prevail'"that is weak man, stiffened into uprightness, and rooted ... being of a
man, but that only God can so ... his life before he was six-and-thirty, has said ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture j/god with us and we.htm

The Prayer of Prayers
... text may either be read as our Bible has it, 'Thy ... of conformity to the perfect purity
of God can satisfy ... He now dwells in 'the land of uprightness,' who once ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture j/the prayer of prayers.htm

The Kingdom of God Conceived as the Inheritance of the Poor.
... Happy he who has been able to behold this divine unfolding ... signs in the heavens,
but by the uprightness of his ... create anew in his heart the true kingdom of God! ...
//christianbookshelf.org/renan/the life of jesus/chapter xi the kingdom of.htm

Counsel for Outward Behaviour.
... it has caused you; if it has not succeeded ... confidence in the infinite goodness of
God, remembering that ... He loves simplicity, candour, and uprightness, go to ...
/.../abandonment to divine providence/ii counsel for outward behaviour.htm