Psalms 85:10

Mercy and truth, righteousness and peace are pictured meeting and embracing. God's saving work harmonizes attributes that sin had set at odds.

Cross-references · 16

• Prov 3:3Don’t let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.
• Ps 89:14Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne. Loving kindness and truth go before your face.
• Isa 32:16–18Then justice will dwell in the wilderness; and righteousness will remain in the fruitful field.
• John 1:17For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.
• Ps 100:5For Yahweh is good. His loving kindness endures forever, his faithfulness to all generations.
• Ps 72:3The mountains shall bring prosperity to the people. The hills bring the fruit of righteousness.
• Rom 5:21that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
• Mic 7:20You will give truth to Jacob, and mercy to Abraham, as you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.
• Isa 45:24They will say of me, ‘There is righteousness and strength only in Yahweh.’” Even to him shall men come; and all those who raged against him shall be disappointed.
• Heb 7:2to whom also Abraham divided a tenth part of all (being first, by interpretation, “king of righteousness”, and then also “king of Salem”, which means “king of peace”;
• Rom 3:25–26whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God’s forbearance;
• Exod 34:6–7Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,
• Luke 1:54–55He has given help to Israel, his servant, that he might remember mercy,
• Rom 5:1Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;
• Jer 23:5–6“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will raise to David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.
• Luke 2:14“Glory to God in the highest, on earth peace, good will toward men.”

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