Isaiah 61:8

Modern English Version

For I, the Lord, love justice, I hate robbery in the burnt offering; and I will faithfully give them their recompense and make an everlasting covenant with them.

Cross References

Genesis 17:7

I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and your descendants after you.

2 Samuel 23:5

Is not my house like this with God? For He made an everlasting covenant with me, ordered in all things and secure. For this is all my salvation and all my desire; will He not make it flourish?

Psalm 105:10

which He confirmed to Jacob as a statute, to Israel as an everlasting covenant,

Psalm 11:7

For the Lord is righteous; He loves righteousness; His countenance beholds the upright.

Psalm 32:8

I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you.

Psalm 33:5

He loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of the lovingkindness of the Lord.

Psalm 37:28

For the Lord loves justice, and does not forsake His saints; they are preserved forever, but the descendants of the wicked shall be cut off.

Psalm 45:7

You love righteousness and hate wickedness; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness more than your companions.

Psalm 50:5

“Gather My faithful ones to Me, those who have made a covenant with Me by sacrifice.”

Psalm 62:10

Trust not in oppression; put no vain hope in robbery; if riches increase, set not your heart on them.

Psalm 99:4

The King in His might loves justice; You have established equity; You have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.

Proverbs 3:6

In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.

Proverbs 8:20

I walk in the way of righteousness, in the paths of justice,

Isaiah 28:17

I shall make justice the measuring line and righteousness the plummet; then the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.

Isaiah 30:18

Therefore, the Lord longs to be gracious to you, and therefore, He waits on high to have mercy on you; for the Lord is a God of justice; how blessed are all who long for Him.

Isaiah 5:16

But the Lord of Hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God who is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.

Isaiah 54:10

For the mountains may be removed, and the hills may shake, but My kindness shall not depart from you, nor shall My covenant of peace be removed, says the Lord who has mercy on you.

Isaiah 55:3

Incline your ear, and come to Me. Listen, so that your soul may live, and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

Isaiah 56:1

Thus says the Lord: Preserve justice and do righteousness, for My salvation is about to come and My righteousness to be revealed.

Isaiah 66:22

For as the new heavens and the new earth which I will make shall remain before Me, says the Lord, so shall your descendants and your name remain.

Jeremiah 32:40

And I will make an everlasting covenant with them that I will not turn away from them, to do them good. But I will put My fear in their hearts so that they shall not depart from Me.

Jeremiah 9:24

but let him who glories glory in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the Lord who exercises lovingkindness, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these things I delight, says the Lord.

Ezekiel 16:60

Nevertheless I will remember My covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you.

Ezekiel 34:25

I will make with them a covenant of peace and will cause the wild beasts to cease from the land so that they dwell safely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods.

Malachi 1:13

You also say, “What a weariness it is,” and you snort at it, says the Lord of Hosts. You bring in what is stolen, the lame, or the sick; thus you bring an offering! Should I accept this from your hand? says the Lord.

Matthew 23:13

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven against men. For you neither enter yourselves, nor allow those who are entering to go in.

2 Thessalonians 3:5

May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ.