Psalms 37:28

The Lord loves justice and never forsakes His saints, preserving them forever while the wicked's line is cut off. God's covenant love guarantees the security of His people.

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• Prov 2:22but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be uprooted.
• Ps 11:7For the LORD is righteous; He loves justice. The upright will see His face.
• Ps 21:10You will wipe their descendants from the earth, and their offspring from the sons of men.
• Isa 59:21“As for Me, this is My covenant with them,” says the LORD. “My Spirit will not depart from you, and My words that I have put in your mouth will not depart from your mouth or from the mouths of your children and grandchildren, from now on and forevermore,” says the LORD.
• 1 Pet 1:5who through faith are shielded by God’s power for the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.
• Jude 1:1Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and a brother of James, To those who are called, loved by God the Father, and kept in Jesus Christ:
• Isa 14:20–21You will not join them in burial, since you have destroyed your land and slaughtered your own people. The offspring of the wicked will never again be mentioned.
• Isa 61:8For I, the LORD, love justice; I hate robbery and iniquity; in My faithfulness I will give them their recompense and make an everlasting covenant with them.
• Job 27:14Though his sons are many, they are destined for the sword; and his offspring will never have enough food.
• Ps 45:6–7Your throne, O God, endures forever and ever, and justice is the scepter of Your kingdom.
• Ps 37:40The LORD helps and delivers them; He rescues and saves them from the wicked, because they take refuge in Him.
• John 5:24Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment. Indeed, he has crossed over from death to life.
• John 15:9As the Father has loved Me, so have I loved you. Remain in My love.
• 1 Jn 2:19They went out from us, but they did not belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But their departure made it clear that none of them belonged to us.
• John 6:39–40And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that I shall lose none of those He has given Me, but raise them up at the last day.
• Jer 9:24But let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD, who exercises loving devotion, justice and righteousness on the earth—for I delight in these things,” declares the LORD.
• Jer 32:40–41I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never turn away from doing good to them, and I will put My fear in their hearts, so that they will never turn away from Me.
• John 10:28–30I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them out of My hand.
• Job 18:19He has no offspring or posterity among his people, no survivor where he once lived.
• Ps 37:25I once was young and now am old, yet never have I seen the righteous abandoned or their children begging for bread.
• Exod 20:5You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
• Ps 92:13–15Planted in the house of the LORD, they will flourish in the courts of our God.
• Isa 30:18Therefore the LORD longs to be gracious to you; therefore He rises to show you compassion, for the LORD is a just God. Blessed are all who wait for Him.
• Ps 99:4The mighty King loves justice. You have established equity; You have exercised justice and righteousness in Jacob.

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