I have been studying Holy and Righteous and does it mean the same as good....unholy/unrighteous=evil....
And I have concluded they are not the same.
Good and evil are what we are born with. Holy and Righteous what we are called to be.
What is the difference between holy and righteous in the Bible?
In summary, the word “holy” refers to a person’s character and “righteous” refers to a person’s behavior. One who is holy behaves righteously. One who is holy will be righteous. Isaiah 5:16 helps us understand the relationship between “holy” and “righteous.”
But the LORD of hosts will be exalted in judgment,
And the holy God will show Himself holy in righteousness.
Isaiah 5:16 (NASB)
My question is: are good and perfect the same thing? Several quotes (I’m sorry so many) but this is why I ask if good and perfect are the same?
Luke 11:9-13 And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. [10] For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. [11] If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent? [12] Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion? [13]
If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father
give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?
James 1:17
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights,
with whom is no variableness,
neither shadow of turning.
consider the glory that was to be done away with, but that glory which
excelleth and
remains. In 2 Corinthians 3:6-11 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament;
not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. [7] But if
the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance;
which glory was to be done away: [8]
How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious? [9] For if the ministration of condemnation
be glory,
much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory. [10] For
even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth. [11] For
if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.
Consider that “every good” and “every perfect “gift” comes from God with Hebrews 10:1 For the law
having a shadow of good things to come, and
not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually
make the comers thereunto perfect.
in the creation account is there not a shadow of that which to come in “let there be light”and God saw it was (good), yet not the very image of “Let there be Light” 2 Corinthians 4:5-6 2 Corinthians 4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not,
lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
(Hebrews 13:20-21).
My question is: in “let there be light”and God saw it was (good), how much perfect the glorious gospel of Christ Hebrews 9:11 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come,
by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
1 Corinthians 13:10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
1 Corinthians 12:31 But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more
excellent way.
Romans 7:7-13 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. [8] But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. [9] For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. [10]
And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death. [11] For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me. [12] Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. [13]
Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.