Splendid and majestic is His work; His righteousness endures forever.
Parallel translations
- WEB His work is honor and majesty. His righteousness endures forever.
- KJV His work is honourable and glorious: and his righteousness endureth for ever.
- NKJV His work is honorable and glorious, And His righteousness endures forever.
- NASB Splendid and majestic is His work, And His righteousness endures forever.
- NLT Everything he does reveals his glory and majesty. His righteousness never fails.
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Quick answer
God's work displays honor and majesty, and His righteousness lasts forever. His deeds reveal His glorious and unchanging character.
Overview
What God does reflects who He is: splendid in majesty and eternally righteous. The enduring nature of His righteousness assures us that His justice and faithfulness never fail. This abiding righteousness is the very righteousness given to believers in Christ (2 Corinthians 5:21), securing them forever.
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- Ps 145:4–5One generation will commend Your works to the next, and will proclaim Your mighty acts—
- Ps 145:10–12All You have made will give You thanks, O LORD, and Your saints will bless You.
- Eph 3:10His purpose was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms,
- Rev 5:12–14In a loud voice they were saying: “Worthy is the Lamb, who was slain, to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing!”
- Ps 119:142Your righteousness is everlasting and Your law is true.
- Ps 19:1For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands.
- Exod 15:11Who among the gods is like You, O LORD? Who is like You—majestic in holiness, revered with praises, performing wonders?
- Eph 1:6–8to the praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the Beloved One.
- Ps 103:17But from everlasting to everlasting the loving devotion of the LORD extends to those who fear Him, and His righteousness to their children’s children—
- Isa 51:8For the moth will devour them like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool. But My righteousness will last forever, My salvation through all generations.”
- Ps 112:3Wealth and riches are in his house, and his righteousness endures forever.
- Ps 145:17The LORD is righteous in all His ways and kind in all His deeds.
- Exod 15:6–7Your right hand, O LORD, is majestic in power; Your right hand, O LORD, has shattered the enemy.
- Ps 112:9He has scattered abroad his gifts to the poor; his righteousness endures forever; his horn will be lifted high in honor.
- Isa 51:5–6My righteousness draws near, My salvation is on the way, and My arms will bring justice to the nations. The islands will look for Me and wait in hope for My arm.
- Ps 119:144Your testimonies are righteous forever. Give me understanding, that I may live.
- Dan 9:24Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.
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