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.

Cross-references · 30

• Heb 1:9You have loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.”
• Ps 21:6For you make him most blessed forever. You make him glad with joy in your presence.
• Isa 61:1–3The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me; because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to those who are bound;
• Ps 33:5He loves righteousness and justice. The earth is full of the loving kindness of Yahweh.
• Eph 1:3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ;
• Col 1:18–19He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the 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 heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,
• John 3:34For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure.
• Ps 89:20I have found David, my servant. I have anointed him with my holy oil,
• Ps 101:8Morning by morning, I will destroy all the wicked of the land; to cut off all the workers of iniquity from Yahweh’s city.
• Acts 2:28You made known to me the ways of life. You will make me full of gladness with your presence.’
• Ps 11:7For Yahweh is righteous. He loves righteousness. The upright shall see his face.
• Ps 99:4The King’s strength also loves justice. You do establish equity. You execute justice and righteousness in Jacob.
• Rom 8:29For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
• Ps 2:2The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against Yahweh, and against his Anointed, saying,
• John 1:16From his fullness we all received grace upon grace.
• Matt 3:15But Jesus, answering, said to him, “Allow it now, for this is the fitting way for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he allowed him.
• Ps 89:26He will call to me, ‘You are my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation!’
• Luke 3:22and the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form like a dove on him; and a voice came out of the sky, saying “You are my beloved Son. In you I am well pleased.”
• Ps 101:3–4I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me.
• Lev 8:12He poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron’s head, and anointed him, to sanctify him.
• 1 Kgs 1:39–40Zadok the priest took the horn of oil from the Tent, and anointed Solomon. They blew the trumpet; and all the people said, “Long live king Solomon!”
• 1 Kgs 19:16Anoint Jehu the son of Nimshi to be king over Israel; and anoint Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel Meholah to be prophet in your place.
• Heb 7:26For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
• John 20:17Jesus said to her, “Don’t hold me, for I haven’t yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers, and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”
• Rev 21:27There will in no way enter into it anything profane, or one who causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.
• Heb 2:14Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in the same way partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,
• 1 Sam 16:13Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the middle of his brothers. Then Yahweh’s Spirit came mightily on David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up and went to Ramah.
• Luke 13:27He will say, ‘I tell you, I don’t know where you come from. Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity.’
• Matt 7:23Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’

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