Love and faithfulness meet together; righteousness and peace kiss each other.
Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.
Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne; love and faithfulness go before you.
For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
For the Lord is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations.
so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
May the mountains bring prosperity to the people, the hills the fruit of righteousness.
You will be faithful to Jacob, and show love to Abraham, as you pledged on oath to our ancestors in days long ago.
They will say of me, ‘In the Lord alone are deliverance and strength.’ ” All who have raged against him will come to him and be put to shame.
and Abraham gave him a tenth of everything. First, the name Melchizedek means “king of righteousness”; then also, “king of Salem” means “king of peace.”
Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
“Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests.”
I am bringing my righteousness near, it is not far away; and my salvation will not be delayed. I will grant salvation to Zion, my splendor to Israel.