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10 Steadfast love and faithfulness will meet;
    righteousness and peace will kiss each other.(A)

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Do not let loyalty and faithfulness forsake you;
    bind them around your neck;
    write them on the tablet of your heart.(A)

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14 Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne;
    steadfast love and faithfulness go before you.(A)

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The Peace of God’s Reign

16 Then justice will dwell in the wilderness
    and righteousness abide in the fruitful field.(A)
17 The effect of righteousness will be peace,
    and the result of righteousness, quietness and trust forever.(B)
18 My people will abide in a peaceful habitation,
    in secure dwellings, and in quiet resting places.

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May the mountains yield prosperity for the people,
    and the hills, in righteousness.(A)

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The Righteous Branch of David

The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.(A) In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will live in safety. And this is the name by which he will be called: “The Lord is our righteousness.”(B)

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For the Lord is good;
    his steadfast love endures forever
    and his faithfulness to all generations.(A)

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The Lord passed before him and proclaimed,

“The Lord, the Lord,
a God merciful and gracious,
slow to anger,
and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness,(A)
keeping steadfast love for the thousandth generation,[a]
forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin,
yet by no means clearing the guilty,
but visiting the iniquity of the parents
upon the children
and the children’s children
to the third and the fourth generation.”(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 34.7 Or for thousands

21 so that, just as sin reigned in death, so grace might also reign through justification leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

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17 The law indeed was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.(A)

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54 He has come to the aid of his child Israel,
    in remembrance of his mercy,(A)
55 according to the promise he made to our ancestors,
    to Abraham and to his descendants forever.”(B)

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24 Only in the Lord, it shall be said of me,
    are righteousness and strength;
all who were incensed against him
    shall come to him and be ashamed.(A)

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and to him Abraham apportioned “one-tenth of everything.” His name, in the first place, means “king of righteousness”; next, he is also king of Salem, that is, “king of peace.”

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Results of Justification

Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we[a] have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 5.1 Other ancient authorities read let us

25 whom God put forward as a sacrifice of atonement[a] by his blood, effective through faith. He did this to demonstrate his righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over the sins previously committed;(A) 26 it was to demonstrate at the present time his own righteousness, so that he is righteous and he justifies the one who has the faith of Jesus.[b]

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  1. 3.25 Or a place of atonement
  2. 3.26 Or has faith in Jesus

20 You will show faithfulness to Jacob
    and steadfast love to Abraham,
as you have sworn to our ancestors
    from the days of old.(A)

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14 “Glory to God in the highest heaven,
    and on earth peace among those whom he favors!”[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. 2.14 Other ancient authorities read peace, goodwill among people