What Does the Righteous Mean in the Bible

What Does the Righteous Mean in the Bible

The Standard by Which Man Judges the Righteous

By chance, a friend of mine shared with me these Bible verses—the parable of the net in Matthew 13:47-50, “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like to a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind: Which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away. So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just, And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.” She said, “Recently, when studying these verses, I got some new enlightenment: The Lord used this parable to tell us what He will do when He returns in the last days. At that time, God will perform the work of dividing us according to our kind and rewarding good and punishing evil. The good fish will be picked out and then kept in the vessels; the foul ones will be thrown away. That is to say, God will separate the righteous from the wicked. Finally, only the righteous can enter into the kingdom of heaven, while the wicked will be the people that are cast off and eliminated.”