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.

Cross-references · 24

• Prov 2:22But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it.
• Ps 11:7For Yahweh is righteous. He loves righteousness. The upright shall see his face.
• Ps 21:10You will destroy their descendants from the earth, their posterity from among the children of men.
• Isa 59:21“As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says Yahweh. “My Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your offspring, nor out of the mouth of your offspring’s offspring,” says Yahweh, “from henceforth and forever.”
• 1 Pet 1:5who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
• Jude 1:1Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:
• Isa 14:20–21You will not join them in burial, because you have destroyed your land. You have killed your people. The offspring of evildoers will not be named forever.
• Isa 61:8“For I, Yahweh, love justice. I hate robbery and iniquity. I will give them their reward in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
• Job 27:14If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword. His offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
• Ps 45:6–7Your throne, God, is forever and ever. A scepter of equity is the scepter of your kingdom.
• Ps 37:40Yahweh helps them, and rescues them. He rescues them from the wicked, and saves them, Because they have taken refuge in him.
• John 5:24“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
• John 15:9Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.
• 1 Jn 2:19They went out from us, but they didn’t belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.
• John 6:39–40This is the will of my Father who sent me, that of all he has given to me I should lose nothing, but should raise him up at the last day.
• 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.
• Jer 32:40–41and 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.
• John 10:28–30I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.
• Job 18:19He shall have neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining where he lived.
• Ps 37:25I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.
• Exod 20:5you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,
• Ps 92:13–15They are planted in Yahweh’s house. They will flourish in our God’s courts.
• Isa 30:18Therefore Yahweh will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for Yahweh is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.
• Ps 99:4The King’s strength also loves justice. You do establish equity. You execute justice and righteousness in Jacob.

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