Isaiah 42:21

For His righteousness' sake, God was pleased to magnify and honor His law. It affirms that God's righteous character stands behind the dignity of His instruction.

Cross-references · 28

• Rom 3:31Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Certainly not! Instead, we uphold the law.
• Heb 8:10For this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their minds and inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.
• Matt 5:17–20Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I have not come to abolish them, but to fulfill them.
• Rom 7:12So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.
• Isa 42:4He will not grow weak or discouraged before He has established justice on the earth. In His law the islands will put their hope.”
• Isa 1:24–27Therefore the Lord GOD of Hosts, the Mighty One of Israel, declares: “Ah, I will be relieved of My foes and avenge Myself on My enemies.
• Isa 46:12–13Listen to Me, you stubborn people, far removed from righteousness:
• Ps 71:19Your righteousness reaches to the heavens, O God, You who have done great things. Who, O God, is like You?
• Ps 40:8I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your law is within my heart.”
• Matt 3:15“Let it be so now,” Jesus replied. “It is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness in this way.” Then John permitted Him.
• Gal 5:22–23But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
• Ps 71:16I will enter in the strength of the Lord GOD; I will proclaim Your righteousness—Yours alone.
• Phil 3:9and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God on the basis of faith.
• Ps 85:9–12Surely His salvation is near to those who fear Him, that His glory may dwell in our land.
• Rom 8:3–4For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful man, as an offering for sin. He thus condemned sin in the flesh,
• 1 Jn 3:4–5Everyone who practices sin practices lawlessness as well. Indeed, sin is lawlessness.
• Gal 3:21Is the law, then, opposed to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given that could impart life, then righteousness would certainly have come from the law.
• Matt 17:5While Peter was still speaking, a bright cloud enveloped them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to Him!”
• Matt 3:17And a voice from heaven said, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased!”
• John 17:4–5I have glorified You on earth by accomplishing the work You gave Me to do.
• John 8:29He who sent Me is with Me. He has not left Me alone, because I always do what pleases Him.”
• John 13:31–32When Judas had gone out, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man is glorified, and God is glorified in Him.
• John 15:10If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love.
• Rom 10:4For Christ is the end of the law, to bring righteousness to everyone who believes.
• Rom 3:25–26God presented Him as the atoning sacrifice through faith in His blood, in order to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance He had passed over the sins committed beforehand.
• Gal 3:13Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.”
• Dan 9:24–27Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.
• 2 Cor 5:19–21that God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not counting men’s trespasses against them. And He has committed to us the message of reconciliation.

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