Splendid and majestic is His work, And 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.
- BSB Splendid and majestic is His work; His righteousness endures forever.
- NKJV His work is honorable and glorious, 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 another, and will declare your mighty acts.
- Ps 145:10–12All your works will give thanks to you, Yahweh. Your saints will extol you.
- Eph 3:10to the intent that now through the assembly the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places,
- Rev 5:12–14saying with a loud voice, “Worthy is the Lamb who has been killed to receive the power, wealth, wisdom, strength, honor, glory, and blessing!”
- Ps 119:142Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness. Your law is truth.
- Ps 19:1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork.
- Exod 15:11Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?
- Eph 1:6–8to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely gave us favor in the Beloved,
- Ps 103:17But Yahweh’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children’s children;
- Isa 51:8For the moth will eat them up like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool; but my righteousness will be forever, and my salvation to all generations.”
- Ps 112:3Wealth and riches are in his house. His righteousness endures forever.
- Ps 145:17Yahweh is righteous in all his ways, and gracious in all his works.
- Exod 15:6–7Your right hand, Yahweh, is glorious in power. Your right hand, Yahweh, dashes the enemy in pieces.
- Ps 112:9He has dispersed, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honor.
- Isa 51:5–6My righteousness is near. My salvation has gone out, and my arms will judge the peoples. The islands will wait for me, and they will trust my arm.
- Ps 119:144Your testimonies are righteous forever. Give me understanding, that I may live. KUF
- Dan 9:24Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.
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