Psalm 138:2
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2 I bow down toward your holy temple
and give thanks to your name for your steadfast love and your faithfulness,
for you have exalted your name and your word
above everything.[a](A)
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- 138.2 Cn: Heb you have exalted your word above all your name
Matthew 5:18
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18 For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not one letter,[a] not one stroke of a letter, will pass from the law until all is accomplished.(A)
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- 5.18 Gk one iota
Isaiah 42:21
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Israel’s Disobedience
21 The Lord was pleased, for the sake of his righteousness,
to magnify his teaching and make it glorious.(A)
Psalm 56:10
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10 In God, whose word I praise,
in the Lord, whose word I praise,
Matthew 24:35
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35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.(A)
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Psalm 5:7
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7 But I, through the abundance of your steadfast love,
will enter your house;
I will bow down toward your holy temple
in awe of you.(A)
1 Kings 8:29-30
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29 that your eyes may be open night and day toward this house, the place of which you said, ‘My name shall be there,’ that you may heed the prayer that your servant prays toward this place.(A) 30 Hear the plea of your servant and of your people Israel when they pray toward this place; O hear in heaven your dwelling place; hear and forgive.(B)
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Psalm 28:2
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2 Hear the voice of my supplication,
as I cry to you for help,
as I lift up my hands
toward your most holy sanctuary.[a](A)
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- 28.2 Heb your innermost sanctuary
Psalm 56:4
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4 In God, whose word I praise,
in God I trust; I am not afraid;
what can flesh do to me?(A)
John 1:17
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17 The law indeed was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.(A)
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Psalm 89:1-2
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Psalm 89
God’s Covenant with David
A Maskil of Ethan the Ezrahite.
1 I will sing of your steadfast love, O Lord,[a] forever;
with my mouth I will proclaim your faithfulness to all generations.(A)
2 I declare that your steadfast love is established forever;
your faithfulness is as firm as the heavens.(B)
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- 89.1 Gk: Heb the steadfast love of the Lord
Romans 15:8-9
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8 For I tell you that Christ has become a servant of the circumcised on behalf of the truth of God in order that he might confirm the promises given to the ancestors(A) 9 and that the gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written,
“Therefore I will confess you among the gentiles
and sing praises to your name”;(B)
Psalm 36:5-6
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5 Your steadfast love, O Lord, extends to the heavens,
your faithfulness to the clouds.
6 Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains;
your judgments are like the great deep;
you save humans and animals alike, O Lord.(A)
Daniel 6:10
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Daniel in the Lions’ Den
10 Although Daniel knew that the document had been signed, he continued to go to his house, which had windows in its upper room open toward Jerusalem, and to get down on his knees three times a day to pray to his God and praise him, just as he had done previously.(A)
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Isaiah 63:7
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God’s Mercy Remembered
7 I will recount the gracious deeds of the Lord,
the praiseworthy acts of the Lord,
because of all that the Lord has done for us
and the great favor to the house of Israel
that he has shown them according to his mercy,
according to the abundance of his steadfast love.(A)
Psalm 115:1
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Psalm 115
The Impotence of Idols and the Greatness of God
1 [a]Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name give glory,
for the sake of your steadfast love and your faithfulness.(A)
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- 115.1 Psalms 114–115 are a single psalm in the earliest witnesses
Psalm 100:4-5
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4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving
and his courts with praise.
Give thanks to him; bless his name.(A)
5 For the Lord is good;
his steadfast love endures forever
and his faithfulness to all generations.(B)
Psalm 99:9
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9 Extol the Lord our God,
and worship at his holy mountain,
for the Lord our God is holy.(A)
Psalm 99:5
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5 Extol the Lord our God;
worship at his footstool.
Holy is he!(A)
Psalm 86:15
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15 But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious,
slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.(A)
Psalm 85:10
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10 Steadfast love and faithfulness will meet;
righteousness and peace will kiss each other.(A)
John 10:35
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35 If those to whom the word of God came were called ‘gods’—and the scripture cannot be annulled—
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Micah 7:18-20
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God’s Compassion and Steadfast Love
18 Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity
and passing over the transgression
of the remnant of his possession?
He does not retain his anger forever
because he delights in showing steadfast love.(A)
19 He will again have compassion upon us;
he will tread our iniquities under foot.
You will cast all our[a] sins
into the depths of the sea.(B)
20 You will show faithfulness to Jacob
and steadfast love to Abraham,
as you have sworn to our ancestors
from the days of old.(C)
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- 7.19 Gk Syr Vg Tg: Heb their
Luke 1:68-72
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68 “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel,
for he has looked favorably on[a] his people and redeemed them.(A)
69 He has raised up a mighty savior[b] for us
in the house of his child David,(B)
70 as he spoke through the mouth of his holy prophets from of old,(C)
71 that we would be saved from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us.
72 Thus he has shown the mercy promised to our ancestors
and has remembered his holy covenant,(D)
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