Isaiah 42:21

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

It pleased the LORD, for his righteousness' sake, to magnify the law, and make it honorable.

Cross References

Psalm 138:2

I will bow down toward your holy temple, and give thanks to your Name for your loving kindness and for your truth; for you have exalted your Name and your Word above all.

Psalm 40:8

I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.*

Psalm 71:16

I will come with the mighty acts of the Lord GOD. I will make mention of your righteousness, even of yours alone.

Psalm 71:19

Your righteousness also, God, reaches to the heavens; you have done great things. God, who is like you?

Isaiah 42:4

He will not fail nor be discouraged, until he has set justice in the earth, and the islands will wait for his law.*

Isaiah 51:4

Attend to me, my people; and give ear to me, my nation: for a law shall go forth from me, and I will establish my justice for a light of the peoples.

Matthew 17:5

While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. Behold, a voice came out of the cloud, saying, *This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him.*

Matthew 3:15

But Yeshua, answering, said to him, *Allow it now, for this is the fitting way for us to fulfill all righteousness.* Then he allowed him.

Matthew 3:17

Behold, a voice out of the heavens said, *This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.*

John 15:10

If you keep my mitzvot, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father's mitzvot, and remain in his love.

John 8:29

He who sent me is with me. The Father hasn't left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him.*

Romans 10:4

For Messiah is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

Romans 3:31

Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.

Romans 7:12

Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the mitzvah holy, and righteous, and good.

Galatians 3:13

Messiah redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, *Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,*

Galatians 3:21

Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most certainly righteousness would have been of the law.

Deuteronomy 4:6

Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.

Deuteronomy 4:8

What great nation is there, that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?

Philippians 3:9

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Messiah, the righteousness which is from God by faith;

Hebrews 8:10

*For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Yisra'el. After those days,* says the Lord; *I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be to them a God, and they will be to me a people.