Isaiah 61:8

New King James Version

“For I, the Lord, love justice; I hate robbery for burnt offering; I will direct their work in truth, And will make with them an everlasting covenant.

Cross References

Genesis 17:7

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

2 Samuel 23:5

“Although my house is not so with God, Yet He has made with me an everlasting covenant, Ordered in all things and secure. For this is all my salvation and all my desire; Will He not make it increase?

Psalm 105:10

And confirmed it to Jacob for 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 guide you with My eye.

Psalm 33:5

He loves righteousness and justice; The earth is full of the goodness 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 saints together to Me, Those who have made a covenant with Me by sacrifice.”

Psalm 62:10

Do not trust in oppression, Nor vainly hope in robbery; If riches increase, Do not set your heart on them.

Psalm 99:4

The King’s strength also 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 shall direct your paths.

Proverbs 8:20

I traverse the way of righteousness, In the midst of the paths of justice,

Isaiah 28:17

Also I will make justice the measuring line, And righteousness the plummet; The hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, And the waters will overflow the hiding place.

Isaiah 30:18

Therefore the Lord will wait, that He may be gracious to you; And therefore He will be exalted, that He may have mercy on you. For the Lord is a God of justice; Blessed are all those who wait for Him.

Isaiah 5:16

But the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, And God who is holy shall be hallowed in righteousness.

Isaiah 54:10

For the mountains shall depart And the hills be removed, 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. Hear, and your soul shall live; And I will make an everlasting covenant with you— The sure mercies of David.

Isaiah 56:1

Thus says the Lord: “Keep 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 doing them good; but I will put My fear in their hearts so that they will 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, exercising lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth. For in these 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 a covenant of peace with them, and cause wild beasts to cease from the land; and they will dwell safely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods.

Malachi 1:13

You also say, ‘Oh, what a weariness!’ And you sneer at it,” Says the Lord of hosts. “And you bring the stolen, the lame, and the sick; Thus you bring an offering! Should I accept this from your hand?” Says the Lord.

Matthew 23:13

“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither go in yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in.

2 Thessalonians 3:5

Now may the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God and into the patience of Christ.