Isaiah 61:8

New American Bible - revised edition

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

Cross References

Genesis 17:7

I will maintain my covenant between me and you and your descendants after you throughout the ages as an everlasting covenant, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.

2 Samuel 23:5

Is not my house firm before God? He has made an eternal covenant with me, set forth in detail and secured. Will he not bring to fruition all my salvation and my every desire?

Psalm 105:10

And ratified in a statute for Jacob, an everlasting covenant for Israel:

Psalm 11:7

The Lord is just and loves just deeds; the upright will see his face.

Psalm 32:8

I will instruct you and show you the way you should walk, give you counsel with my eye upon you.

Psalm 33:5

He loves justice and right. The earth is full of the mercy of the Lord.

Psalm 37:28

For the Lord loves justice and does not abandon the faithful. When the unjust are destroyed, and the offspring of the wicked cut off,

Psalm 45:7

Your throne, O God, stands forever; your royal scepter is a scepter for justice.

Psalm 50:5

“Gather my loyal ones to me, those who made a covenant with me by sacrifice.”

Psalm 62:10

Mortals are a mere breath, the sons of man but an illusion; On a balance they rise; together they weigh nothing.

Psalm 99:4

O mighty king, lover of justice, you have established fairness; you have created just rule in Jacob.

Proverbs 3:6

In all your ways be mindful of him, and he will make straight your paths.

Proverbs 8:20

On the way of righteousness I walk, along the paths of justice,

Isaiah 28:17

I will make judgment a measuring line, and justice a level.— Hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and waters shall flood the hiding place.

Isaiah 30:18

Truly, the Lord is waiting to be gracious to you, truly, he shall rise to show you mercy; For the Lord is a God of justice: happy are all who wait for him!

Isaiah 5:16

But the Lord of hosts shall be exalted by judgment, by justice the Holy God shown holy.

Isaiah 54:10

Though the mountains fall away and the hills be shaken, My love shall never fall away from you nor my covenant of peace be shaken, says the Lord, who has mercy on you.

Isaiah 55:3

Pay attention and come to me; listen, that you may have life. I will make with you an everlasting covenant, the steadfast loyalty promised to David.

Isaiah 56:1

Thus says the Lord: Observe what is right, do what is just, for my salvation is about to come, my justice, about to be revealed.

Isaiah 66:22

Just as the new heavens and the new earth which I am making Shall endure before me—oracle of the Lord— so shall your descendants and your name endure.

Jeremiah 32:40

With them I will make an everlasting covenant, never to cease doing good to them; I will put fear of me in their hearts so that they never turn away from me.

Jeremiah 9:24

See, days are coming—oracle of the Lord—when I will demand an account of all those circumcised in the foreskin:

Ezekiel 16:60

But I will remember the covenant I made with you when you were young; I will set up an everlasting covenant with you.

Ezekiel 34:25

I will make a covenant of peace with them and rid the country of wild beasts so they will dwell securely in the wilderness and sleep in the forests.

Malachi 1:13

You say, “See what a burden this is!” and you exasperate me, says the Lord of hosts; You bring in what is mutilated, or lame, or sick; you bring it as an offering! Will I accept it from your hands? says the Lord.

Matthew 23:13

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You lock the kingdom of heaven before human beings. You do not enter yourselves, nor do you allow entrance to those trying to enter. [

2 Thessalonians 3:5

May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the endurance of Christ. Neglect of Work.