Salvation for Others

56 This is what the Lord says:

“Maintain justice(A)
    and do what is right,(B)
for my salvation(C) is close at hand
    and my righteousness(D) will soon be revealed.

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Not One Is Upright

“Go up and down(A) the streets of Jerusalem,
    look around and consider,(B)
    search through her squares.
If you can find but one person(C)
    who deals honestly(D) and seeks the truth,
    I will forgive(E) this city.

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14 And if I say to a wicked person, ‘You will surely die,’ but they then turn away from their sin and do what is just(A) and right—

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“‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: You have gone far enough, princes of Israel! Give up your violence and oppression(A) and do what is just and right.(B) Stop dispossessing my people, declares the Sovereign Lord.

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But you must return(A) to your God;
    maintain love and justice,(B)
    and wait for your God always.(C)

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24 But let justice(A) roll on like a river,
    righteousness(B) like a never-failing stream!(C)

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He has shown you, O mortal, what is good.
    And what does the Lord require of you?
To act justly(A) and to love mercy
    and to walk humbly[a](B) with your God.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Micah 6:8 Or prudently

“This is what the Lord Almighty said: ‘Administer true justice;(A) show mercy and compassion to one another.(B)

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