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 Yahweh is righteous. He loves righteousness. The upright shall see his face.
• Jer 9:24But let him who glories glory in this, that he has understanding, and knows me, that I am Yahweh who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight,” says Yahweh.
• Zech 8:16–17These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with his neighbor. 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 following them, to do them good; and I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not depart from me.
• Isa 55:3Turn your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul will live: and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
• Gen 17:7I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your offspring after you.
• Ps 25:8–12Good and upright is Yahweh, therefore he will instruct sinners in the way.
• Ps 37:28For Yahweh loves justice, and doesn’t forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.
• Prov 8:20I walk in the way of righteousness, in the middle of the paths of justice;
• Ps 99:4The King’s strength also loves justice. You do establish equity. You execute justice and righteousness in Jacob.
• 1 Sam 15:21–24But the people took of the plunder, sheep and cattle, the chief of the devoted things, to sacrifice to Yahweh your God in Gilgal.”
• Prov 3:6In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.
• Ps 33:5He loves righteousness and justice. The earth is full of the loving kindness of Yahweh.
• Ps 45:7You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.
• 2 Sam 23:5Most certainly my house is not so with God, yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure, for it is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he doesn’t make it grow.
• Heb 13:20–21Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,
• 2 Th 3:5May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love, and into the perseverance of Christ.
• Ps 32:8I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.
• Ps 50:5“Gather my saints together to me, those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.”
• Isa 5:16but Yahweh of Armies is exalted in justice, and God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness.
• Isa 1:11–13“What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?”, says Yahweh. “I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed animals. I don’t delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats.
• Amos 5:21–24I hate, I despise your feasts, and I can’t stand your solemn assemblies.
• Jer 7:8–11Behold, you trust in lying words, that can’t profit.
• Matt 23:13“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.

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