Isaiah 61:8

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

Genesis 17:7

I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring after you.

2 Samuel 23:5

Is not my house like this with God? For he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and secure. Will he not cause to prosper all my help and my desire?

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 righteous deeds; the upright shall behold his face.

Psalm 32:8

I will instruct you and teach you 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 steadfast love of the Lord.

Psalm 37:28

For the Lord loves justice; he will not forsake his faithful ones. The righteous shall be kept safe forever, but the children 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 beyond your companions;

Psalm 50:5

“Gather to me my faithful ones, who made a covenant with me by sacrifice!”

Psalm 62:10

Put no confidence in extortion, and set no vain hopes on robbery; if riches increase, do not set your heart on them.

Psalm 99:4

Mighty King, lover of 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 straight your paths.

Proverbs 8:20

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

Isaiah 28:17

And I will make justice the line and righteousness the plummet; hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and waters will overwhelm the shelter.

Isaiah 30:18

Therefore the Lord waits to be gracious to you; therefore he will rise up to show mercy to 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 is exalted by justice, and the Holy God shows himself holy by righteousness.

Isaiah 54:10

For the mountains may depart and the hills be removed, but my steadfast love shall not depart from you, and my covenant of peace shall not be removed, says the Lord, who has compassion on you.

Isaiah 55:3

Incline your ear, and come to me; listen, so that you may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant, my steadfast, sure love for David.

Isaiah 56:1

Thus says the Lord: Maintain justice, and do what is right, for soon my salvation will come and my deliverance 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

I will make an everlasting covenant with them, never to draw back from doing good to them, and I will put the fear of me in their hearts, so that they may not turn from me.

Jeremiah 9:24

but let those who boast boast in this, that they understand and know me, that I am the Lord; I act with steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth, for in these things I delight, says the Lord.

Ezekiel 16:60

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

Ezekiel 34:25

I will make with them a covenant of peace and banish wild animals from the land, so that they may live in the wild and sleep in the woods securely.

Malachi 1:13

“What a weariness this is,” you say, and you sniff at it, says the Lord of hosts. You bring what has been taken by violence or is lame or sick, and this you bring as your offering! Shall I accept that from your hand? says the Lord.

Matthew 23:13

“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you lock people out of the kingdom of heaven. For you do not go in yourselves, and when others are going in you stop them.

2 Thessalonians 3:5

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