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 make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
• Heb 8:10For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
• Matt 5:17–20Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
• Rom 7:12Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
• Isa 42:4He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.
• Isa 1:24–27Therefore saith the LORD, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies:
• Isa 46:12–13Hearken unto me, ye stouthearted, that are far from righteousness:
• Ps 71:19Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high, who hast done great things: O God, who is like unto thee!
• Ps 40:8I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
• Matt 3:15And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him.
• Gal 5:22–23But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
• Ps 71:16I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD: I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only.
• Phil 3:9And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
• Ps 85:9–12Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him; that glory may dwell in our land.
• Rom 8:3–4For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
• 1 Jn 3:4–5Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.
• Gal 3:21Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.
• Matt 17:5While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.
• Matt 3:17And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
• John 17:4–5I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.
• John 8:29And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him.
• John 13:31–32Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him.
• John 15:10If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.
• Rom 10:4For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
• Rom 3:25–26Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
• Gal 3:13Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
• Dan 9:24–27Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
• 2 Cor 5:19–21To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.

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