The LORD is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works.
Parallel translations
- WEB Yahweh is righteous in all his ways, and gracious in all his works.
- BSB The LORD is righteous in all His ways and kind in all His deeds.
- NKJV The Lord is righteous in all His ways, Gracious in all His works.
- NASB ¶The Lord is righteous in all His ways, And kind in all His works.
- NLT The Lord is righteous in everything he does; he is filled with kindness.
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Quick answer
God is righteous in all His ways and gracious in all His works. His justice and His kindness are perfectly consistent in everything He does.
Overview
Nothing God does departs from righteousness, and nothing departs from grace; the two are inseparable in His character. This assures believers they can trust both His fairness and His mercy. The cross supremely displays this union, where God's justice and grace meet in Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 19
- Deut 32:4He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
- Zeph 3:5The just LORD is in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame.
- Ps 103:6The LORD executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.
- Isa 45:21Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the LORD? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me.
- Ps 116:5Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful.
- Rev 19:11And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.
- Ps 89:14Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.
- Ps 50:6And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah.
- Rom 3:25–26Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
- Ps 99:3–4Let them praise thy great and terrible name; for it is holy.
- Rev 15:3–4And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints.
- Gen 18:25That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
- Zech 9:9Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.
- 1 Sam 2:2–3There is none holy as the LORD: for there is none beside thee: neither is there any rock like our God.
- Rev 16:5–7And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.
- Rom 3:5–6But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)
- Rev 19:2For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.
- Rev 4:8And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, LORD God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.
- Ps 97:2Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne.
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