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 through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.
• Heb 8:10“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days,” says the Lord; “I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
• Matt 5:17–20“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill.
• Rom 7:12Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.
• Isa 42:4He will not fail nor be discouraged, until he has set justice in the earth, and the islands will wait for his law.”
• Isa 1:24–27Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, the Mighty One of Israel, says: “Ah, I will get relief from my adversaries, and avenge myself on my enemies;
• Isa 46:12–13Listen to me, you stubborn-hearted, who are far from righteousness!
• Ps 71:19Your righteousness also, God, reaches to the heavens; you have done great things. God, who is like you?
• Ps 40:8I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”
• Matt 3:15But Jesus, answering, said to him, “Allow it now, for this is the fitting way for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he allowed him.
• Gal 5:22–23But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,
• Ps 71:16I will come with the mighty acts of the Lord Yahweh. I will make mention of your righteousness, even of yours alone.
• Phil 3:9and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;
• Ps 85:9–12Surely his salvation is near those who fear him, that glory may dwell in our land.
• Rom 8:3–4For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;
• 1 Jn 3:4–5Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.
• Gal 3:21Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most certainly righteousness would have been of the law.
• Matt 17:5While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. Behold, a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him.”
• Matt 3:17Behold, a voice out of the heavens said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”
• John 17:4–5I glorified you on the earth. I have accomplished the work which you have given me to do.
• John 8:29He who sent me is with me. The Father hasn’t left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him.”
• John 13:31–32When he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him.
• John 15:10If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love.
• Rom 10:4For Christ is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
• Rom 3:25–26whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God’s forbearance;
• Gal 3:13Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,”
• Dan 9:24–27Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.
• 2 Cor 5:19–21namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation.

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