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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17 “Let (A)the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”

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14 But far be it from me to boast (A)except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which[a] the world (B)has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

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Footnotes

  1. Galatians 6:14 Or through whom

31 so that, as it is written, (A)“Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”

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He has told you, O man, what is good;
    and (A)what does the Lord require of you
but to do justice, and to love kindness,[a]
    and to (B)walk humbly with your God?

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  1. Micah 6:8 Or steadfast love

God's Steadfast Love and Compassion

18 (A)Who is a God like you, (B)pardoning iniquity
    and passing over transgression
    (C)for the remnant of his inheritance?
(D)He does not retain his anger forever,
    because he delights in steadfast love.

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(A)In God we have boasted continually,
    and we will give thanks to your name forever. Selah

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20 And we know that the Son of God has come and (A)has given us understanding, so that we may know (B)him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and (C)eternal life.

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    (A)who executes justice for the oppressed,
    (B)who gives food to the hungry.

(C)The Lord sets the prisoners free;
    (D)the Lord opens the eyes of the blind.
(E)The Lord lifts up those who are bowed down;
    (F)the Lord loves the righteous.
(G)The Lord watches over the sojourners;
    (H)he upholds the widow and the fatherless,
    but (I)the way of the wicked he brings to ruin.

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Your steadfast love, O Lord, extends to the heavens,
    your faithfulness to the clouds.
(A)Your righteousness is like the mountains of God;
    (B)your judgments are like the great deep;
    man and beast you (C)save, O Lord.

(D)How precious is your steadfast love, O God!
    The children of mankind take refuge (E)in the shadow of your wings.

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(A)And this is eternal life, (B)that they know you, (C)the only (D)true God, and (E)Jesus Christ whom you have sent.

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Create in Me a Clean Heart, O God

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, when (A)Nathan the prophet went to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.

51 (B)Have mercy on me,[a] O God,
    according to your steadfast love;
according to your (C)abundant mercy
    (D)blot out my transgressions.

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  1. Psalm 51:1 Or Be gracious to me

14 “Because he (A)holds fast to me in love, I will deliver him;
    I will protect him, because he (B)knows my name.

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22 And Samuel said,

(A)“Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices,
    as in obeying the voice of the Lord?
Behold, (B)to obey is better than sacrifice,
    and to listen than the fat of rams.

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For God, who said, (A)“Let light shine out of darkness,” (B)has shone in our hearts to give (C)the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

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25 whom God (A)put forward as (B)a propitiation (C)by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in (D)his divine forbearance he had passed over (E)former sins. 26 It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

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16 (A)you shall winnow them, and (B)the wind shall carry them away,
    and the tempest shall scatter them.
(C)And you shall rejoice in the Lord;
    in the Holy One of Israel you shall glory.

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They shall pour forth the fame of your (A)abundant goodness
    and shall sing aloud of your righteousness.

The Lord is (B)gracious and merciful,
    slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.

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The Lord (A)descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and (B)proclaimed the name of the Lord. The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, (C)“The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and (D)gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast (E)love and faithfulness, (F)keeping steadfast love for thousands,[a] (G)forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but (H)who will by no means clear the guilty, (I)visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation.”

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  1. Exodus 34:7 Or to the thousandth generation

11 More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received (A)reconciliation.

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33 (A)For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: (B)I will put my law within them, and I will write it (C)on their hearts. (D)And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 34 And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ (E)for they shall all know me, (F)from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For (G)I will forgive their iniquity, and (H)I will remember their sin no more.”

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(A)and if you swear, ‘As the Lord lives,’
    in truth, in justice, and in righteousness,
then (B)nations shall bless themselves in him,
    (C)and in him shall they glory.”

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(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.

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  1. Isaiah 61:8 Or robbery with a burnt offering

(A)The King in his might (B)loves justice.[a]
    You have established equity;
you have executed justice
    and righteousness in Jacob.

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  1. Psalm 99:4 Or The might of the King loves justice

22 (A)All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows who the Son is (B)except the Father, or who the Father is (C)except the Son and anyone (D)to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.”

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