Isaiah 61:8
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8 (A)For I the Lord love justice;
I hate robbery and wrong;[a]
(B)I will faithfully give them their recompense,
(C)and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 61:8 Or robbery with a burnt offering
Psalm 11:7
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Jeremiah 9:24
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24 but (A)let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the Lord who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. (B)For in these things I delight, declares the Lord.”
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Zechariah 8:16-17
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16 These are the things that you shall do: (A)Speak the truth to one another; (B)render in your gates judgments (C)that are true and make for peace; 17 (D)do not devise evil in your hearts against one another, and (E)love no false oath, for all these things I hate, declares the Lord.”
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Jeremiah 32:40
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40 (A)I will make with them an everlasting covenant, that I will not turn away from doing good to them. (B)And I will put the fear of me in their hearts, that they may not turn from me.
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Isaiah 55:3
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3 Incline your ear, and come to me;
(A)hear, that your soul may live;
(B)and I will make with you an everlasting covenant,
(C)my steadfast, sure love for (D)David.
Psalm 37:28
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28 For the Lord (A)loves justice;
he will not forsake his (B)saints.
They are preserved forever,
but the children of the wicked shall be (C)cut off.
Psalm 25:8-12
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8 (A)Good and upright is the Lord;
therefore he (B)instructs sinners in the way.
9 He leads the humble in what is right,
and teaches the humble his way.
10 All the paths of the Lord are (C)steadfast love and faithfulness,
for those who keep his covenant and his testimonies.
11 For your (D)name's sake, O Lord,
pardon my guilt, for it is (E)great.
12 Who is the man who fears the Lord?
Him (F)will he instruct in the way that he should choose.
Genesis 17:7
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7 And I will (A)establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, (B)to be God to you and to your offspring after you.
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Proverbs 8:20
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20 I walk in the way of righteousness,
in the paths of justice,
Psalm 99:4
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4 (A)The King in his might (B)loves justice.[a]
You have established equity;
you have executed justice
and righteousness in Jacob.
Footnotes
- Psalm 99:4 Or The might of the King loves justice
Proverbs 3:6
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Psalm 33:5
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2 Samuel 23:5
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5 “For does not my house stand so with God?
(A)For he has made with me an everlasting covenant,
ordered in all things and secure.
For will he not cause to prosper
all my help and my desire?
1 Samuel 15:21-24
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21 (A)But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the best of the things devoted to destruction, to sacrifice to the Lord your God in Gilgal.” 22 And Samuel said,
(B)“Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices,
as in obeying the voice of the Lord?
Behold, (C)to obey is better than sacrifice,
and to listen than the fat of rams.
23 For rebellion is as the sin of divination,
and presumption is as iniquity and (D)idolatry.
Because (E)you have rejected the word of the Lord,
(F)he has also rejected you from being king.”
24 Saul said to Samuel, (G)“I have sinned, for I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord and your words, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice.
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Hebrews 13:20-21
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Benediction
20 Now (A)may the God of peace (B)who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, (C)the great shepherd of the sheep, by (D)the blood of the eternal covenant, 21 (E)equip you with everything good that you may do his will, (F)working in us[a] that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, (G)to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
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- Hebrews 13:21 Some manuscripts you
2 Thessalonians 3:5
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5 May the Lord (A)direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ.
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Isaiah 5:16
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16 (A)But the Lord of hosts is exalted[a] in justice,
and the Holy God shows himself holy in righteousness.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 5:16 Hebrew high
Psalm 50:5
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5 “Gather to me my faithful ones,
who made (A)a covenant with me by sacrifice!”
Psalm 32:8
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8 I will (A)instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;
I will (B)counsel you with my eye upon you.
Matthew 23:13
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13 “But woe (A)to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you (B)shut the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. For you (C)neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in.[a]
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- Matthew 23:13 Some manuscripts add here (or after verse 12) verse 14: Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows' houses and for a pretense you make long prayers; therefore you will receive the greater condemnation
Amos 5:21-24
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21 (A)“I hate, I despise your feasts,
and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies.
22 (B)Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings,
I will not accept them;
and the peace offerings of your fattened animals,
I will not look upon them.
23 Take away from me the noise of your songs;
to (C)the melody of your harps I will not listen.
24 But let justice roll down like waters,
and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
Jeremiah 7:8-11
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8 “Behold, you trust in deceptive words to no avail. 9 (A)Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, (B)swear falsely, (C)make offerings to Baal, (D)and go after other gods that you have not known, 10 and then come and stand before me in this house, (E)which is called by my name, and say, ‘We are delivered!’—only to go on doing all these abominations? 11 (F)Has this house, (G)which is called by my name, (H)become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I myself have seen it, declares the Lord.
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Isaiah 1:11-13
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11 (A)“What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices?
says the Lord;
I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams
and the fat of well-fed beasts;
I do not delight in the blood of bulls,
or of lambs, or of goats.
12 “When you come to (B)appear before me,
who has required of you
this trampling of my courts?
13 Bring no more vain offerings;
incense is an abomination to me.
(C)New moon and Sabbath and the (D)calling of convocations—
I cannot endure (E)iniquity and (F)solemn assembly.
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