Psalms 45:7

The king loves righteousness and hates wickedness, so God has anointed him with the oil of gladness above his companions. It matters because Hebrews applies it to Christ's unique anointing.

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• Heb 1:9You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, Your God, has anointed You above Your companions with the oil of joy.”
• Ps 21:6For You grant him blessings forever; You cheer him with joy in Your presence.
• Isa 61:1–3The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners,
• Ps 33:5The LORD loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of His loving devotion.
• Eph 1:3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms.
• Col 1:18–19And He is the head of the body, the church; He is the beginning and firstborn from among the dead, so that in all things He may have preeminence.
• Luke 4:18–21“The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to release the oppressed,
• John 3:34For the One whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God gives the Spirit without limit.
• Ps 89:20I have found My servant David; with My sacred oil I have anointed him.
• Ps 101:8Every morning I will remove all the wicked of the land, that I may cut off every evildoer from the city of the LORD.
• Acts 2:28You have made known to me the paths of life; You will fill me with joy in Your presence.’
• Ps 11:7For the LORD is righteous; He loves justice. The upright will see His face.
• Ps 99:4The mighty King loves justice. You have established equity; You have exercised justice and righteousness in Jacob.
• Rom 8:29For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.
• Ps 2:2The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together, against the LORD and against His Anointed One:
• John 1:16From His fullness we have all received grace upon grace.
• Matt 3:15“Let it be so now,” Jesus replied. “It is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness in this way.” Then John permitted Him.
• Ps 89:26He will call to Me, ‘You are my Father, my God, the Rock of my salvation.’
• Luke 3:22and the Holy Spirit descended on Him in a bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: “You are My beloved Son; in You I am well pleased.”
• Ps 101:3–4I will set no worthless thing before my eyes. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me.
• Lev 8:12He also poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron’s head and anointed him to consecrate him.
• 1 Kgs 1:39–40Zadok the priest took the horn of oil from the tabernacle and anointed Solomon. Then they blew the ram’s horn, and all the people proclaimed, “Long live King Solomon!”
• 1 Kgs 19:16You are also to anoint Jehu son of Nimshi as king over Israel and Elisha son of Shaphat from Abel-meholah to succeed you as prophet.
• Heb 7:26Such a high priest truly befits us—One who is holy, innocent, undefiled, set apart from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.
• John 20:17“Do not cling to Me,” Jesus said, “for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go and tell My brothers, ‘I am ascending to My Father and your Father, to My God and your God.’”
• Rev 21:27But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who practices an abomination or a lie, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
• Heb 2:14Now since the children have flesh and blood, He too shared in their humanity, so that by His death He might destroy him who holds the power of death, that is, the devil,
• 1 Sam 16:13So Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the presence of his brothers, and the Spirit of the LORD rushed upon David from that day forward. Then Samuel set out and went to Ramah.
• Luke 13:27And he will answer, ‘I tell you, I do not know where you are from. Depart from me, all you evildoers.’
• Matt 7:23Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you workers of lawlessness!’

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