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 righteous LORD loveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold the upright.
• Jer 9:24But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the LORD.
• Zech 8:16–17These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates:
• Jer 32:40And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.
• Isa 55:3Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
• Gen 17:7And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
• Ps 25:8–12Good and upright is the LORD: therefore will he teach sinners in the way.
• Ps 37:28For the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.
• Prov 8:20I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment:
• Ps 99:4The king’s strength also loveth judgment; thou dost establish equity, thou executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob.
• 1 Sam 15:21–24But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God in Gilgal.
• Prov 3:6In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
• Ps 33:5He loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the goodness of the LORD.
• Ps 45:7Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
• 2 Sam 23:5Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he make it not to grow.
• Heb 13:20–21Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
• 2 Th 3:5And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.
• Ps 32:8I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.
• Ps 50:5Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.
• Isa 5:16But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.
• Isa 1:11–13To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
• Amos 5:21–24I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
• Jer 7:8–11Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.
• Matt 23:13But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.

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