Verse 7

May the seat of his authority be before God for ever; may mercy and righteousness keep him safe.

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 40:11 : 11 Take not away your gentle mercies from me, O Lord; let your mercy and your faith keep me safe for ever.
  • Ps 41:12 : 12 And as for me, you are my support in my righteousness, giving me a place before your face for ever.
  • Ps 57:3 : 3 He will send from heaven, and take me from the power of him whose desire is for my destruction. God will send out his mercy and his good faith.
  • Prov 20:28 : 28 Mercy and good faith keep the king safe, and the seat of his power is based on upright acts.
  • Isa 9:6-7 : 6 For to us a child has come, to us a son is given; and the government has been placed in his hands; and he has been named Wise Guide, Strong God, Father for ever, Prince of Peace. 7 Of the increase of his rule and of peace there will be no end, on the seat of David, and in his kingdom; to make it strong, supporting it with wise decision and righteousness, now and for ever. By the fixed purpose of the Lord of armies this will be done.
  • Mic 7:20 : 20 You will make clear your good faith to Jacob and your mercy to Abraham, as you gave your oath to our fathers from times long past.
  • Luke 1:33 : 33 He will have rule over the house of Jacob for ever, and of his kingdom there will be no end.
  • Luke 1:54-55 : 54 His help he has given to Israel, his servant, so that he might keep in mind his mercy to Abraham and his seed for ever, 55 As he gave his word to our fathers.
  • Heb 7:21-25 : 21 (For those were made priests without an oath, but this one was made a priest with an oath by him who says of him, The Lord gave his oath, which he will not take back, that you are a priest for ever); 22 By so much is it a better agreement which we have through Jesus. 23 And it is true that there have been a great number of those priests, because death does not let them go on for ever; 24 But this priest, because his life goes on for ever, is unchanging. 25 So that he is fully able to be the saviour of all who come to God through him, because he is ever living to make prayer to God for them.
  • Heb 9:24 : 24 For Christ did not go into a holy place which had been made by men's hands as the copy of the true one; but he went into heaven itself, and now takes his place before the face of God for us.
  • Ps 43:3 : 3 O send out your light and your true word; let them be my guide: let them take me to your holy hill, and to your tents.
  • Gen 24:27 : 27 And said, Praise be to the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who has given a sign that he is good and true to my master, by guiding me straight to the house of my master's family.
  • Gen 32:10 : 10 I am less than nothing in comparison with all your mercies and your faith to me your servant; for with only my stick in my hand I went across Jordan, and now I have become two armies.