Isaiah 61:8

Because God loves justice and hates wrongdoing, He will faithfully reward His people and bind Himself to them in an everlasting covenant. It matters because redemption flows from God's own righteous character.

Cross-references · 24

• Ps 11:7For the LORD is righteous; He loves justice. The upright will see His face.
• Jer 9:24But let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD, who exercises loving devotion, justice and righteousness on the earth—for I delight in these things,” declares the LORD.
• Zech 8:16–17These are the things you must do: Speak truth to one another, render true and sound judgments in your gates,
• Jer 32:40I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never turn away from doing good to them, and I will put My fear in their hearts, so that they will never turn away from Me.
• Isa 55:3Incline your ear and come to Me; listen, so that your soul may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant—My loving devotion promised to David.
• Gen 17:7I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
• Ps 25:8–12Good and upright is the LORD; therefore He shows sinners the way.
• Ps 37:28For the LORD loves justice and will not forsake His saints. They are preserved forever, but the offspring of the wicked will be cut off.
• Prov 8:20I walk in the way of righteousness, along the paths of justice,
• Ps 99:4The mighty King loves justice. You have established equity; You have exercised justice and righteousness in Jacob.
• 1 Sam 15:21–24The troops took sheep and cattle from the plunder, the best of the things devoted to destruction, in order to sacrifice them to the LORD your God at Gilgal.”
• Prov 3:6in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.
• Ps 33:5The LORD loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of His loving devotion.
• Ps 45:7You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, has anointed you above your companions with the oil of joy.
• 2 Sam 23:5Is not my house right with God? For He has established with me an everlasting covenant, ordered and secured in every part. Will He not bring about my full salvation and my every desire?
• Heb 13:20–21Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep,
• 2 Th 3:5May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love and Christ’s perseverance.
• Ps 32:8I will instruct you and teach you the way you should go; I will give you counsel and watch over you.
• Ps 50:5“Gather to Me My saints, who made a covenant with Me by sacrifice.”
• Isa 5:16But the LORD of Hosts will be exalted by His justice, and the holy God will show Himself holy in righteousness.
• Isa 1:11–13“What good to Me is your multitude of sacrifices?” says the LORD. “I am full from the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed cattle; I take no delight in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats.
• Amos 5:21–24“I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.
• Jer 7:8–11But look, you keep trusting in deceptive words to no avail.
• Matt 23:13Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let in those who wish to enter.

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