In the LORD shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory.
Parallel translations
- WEB All the offspring of Israel will be justified in Yahweh, and will rejoice!
- BSB In the LORD all descendants of Israel will be justified and will exult.
- NKJV In the Lord all the descendants of Israel Shall be justified, and shall glory.’ ”
- NASB “In the Lord all the offspring of Israel Will be justified and will boast.”
- NLT In the Lord all the generations of Israel will be justified, and in him they will boast.
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All the offspring of Israel will be justified in Yahweh and will rejoice. God's people are declared righteous through him.
Overview
The chapter closes with the promise that God's people are 'justified in Yahweh' — counted righteous through their relationship to him, not their own works. This forensic language of justification blossoms in Paul's gospel: believers are justified in Christ. It is a ground for joy, for our right standing rests securely in God.
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- Isa 41:16Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the LORD, and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.
- 1 Cor 6:11And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
- Gal 3:27–29For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
- Acts 13:39And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.
- Isa 65:23They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the LORD, and their offspring with them.
- Isa 45:24Surely, shall one say, in the LORD have I righteousness and strength: even to him shall men come; and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed.
- Rom 5:1Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
- Rom 3:24–25Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
- Isa 45:17But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.
- Rom 5:18–19Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.
- Rom 8:30Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
- Rom 8:1There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
- 1 Cor 1:31That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
- Ps 64:10The righteous shall be glad in the LORD, and shall trust in him; and all the upright in heart shall glory.
- Rom 9:6–8Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:
- Isa 61:9And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people: all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which the LORD hath blessed.
- 1 Chr 16:13O ye seed of Israel his servant, ye children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
- Ps 22:23Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.
- Isa 45:19I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.
- Rom 4:16Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,
- Jer 9:23–24Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches:
- Rom 8:33–34Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth.
- Isa 65:9And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.
- Phil 3:3For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
- 2 Cor 5:21For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
- 2 Cor 10:17But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
- Gal 6:14But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.
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