Verse 21

The LORD was pleased, for the sake of His righteousness, to make His law great and glorious.

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  • Ps 40:8 : 8 Then I said, 'Here I am; I have come. In the scroll of the book it is written about me.'
  • Ps 71:16 : 16 I will come and proclaim your mighty acts, Lord God; I will proclaim your righteousness, yours alone.
  • Ps 71:19 : 19 Your righteousness, O God, reaches to the heavens; you have done great things. Who is like you, O God?
  • Ps 85:9-9 : 9 I will listen to what God the LORD says; he promises peace to his people, his faithful ones, but let them not return to folly. 10 Surely his salvation is near to those who fear him, so that his glory may dwell in our land. 11 Steadfast love and truth meet together; righteousness and peace kiss each other. 12 Truth springs up from the earth, and righteousness looks down from heaven.
  • Isa 1:24-27 : 24 Therefore, this is the declaration of the Lord, the LORD of Hosts, the Mighty One of Israel: "I will gain relief from My adversaries and avenge Myself on My enemies. 25 I will turn My hand against you; I will thoroughly purify your dross as with lye and remove all your impurities. 26 I will restore your judges as at the beginning, and your counselors as at the start. Afterward, you will be called the City of Righteousness, the Faithful City. 27 Zion will be redeemed through justice, and her repentant ones through righteousness.
  • Isa 42:4 : 4 He will not grow faint or be crushed until he has established justice on the earth, and the coastlands wait for his law.
  • Isa 46:12-13 : 12 Listen to Me, you stubborn-hearted, who are far from righteousness. 13 I bring My righteousness near; it is not far off, and My salvation will not delay. I will grant salvation to Zion and My glory to Israel.
  • Dan 9:24-27 : 24 Seventy weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city to finish transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place. 25 Know and understand this: From the issuance of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One, the Prince, will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be rebuilt with streets and a moat, but in difficult times. 26 After the sixty-two weeks, the Anointed One will be cut off and have nothing. The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood, and desolation has been decreed until the end of the war. 27 He will confirm a covenant with many for one week, but in the middle of the week, he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of abominations will come one who makes desolate, until the decreed destruction is poured out on the desolator.
  • Matt 3:15 : 15 Jesus answered him, 'Allow it for now, because this is the proper way for us to fulfill all righteousness.' Then John allowed Him.
  • Matt 3:17 : 17 And a voice from heaven said, 'This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.'
  • Matt 5:17-20 : 17 Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. 18 For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter, not a single stroke of a pen, will disappear from the law until everything is accomplished. 19 So whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do so will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever obeys them and teaches others will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. 20 For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven.
  • Matt 17:5 : 5 While he was still speaking, a bright cloud enveloped them, and a voice from the cloud said, 'This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to Him!'
  • John 8:29 : 29 The one who sent me is with me; he has not left me alone, because I always do what pleases him."
  • John 13:31-32 : 31 When Judas had left, Jesus said, 'Now the Son of Man is glorified, and God is glorified in Him.' 32 If God is glorified in Him, God will also glorify Him in Himself, and will glorify Him at once.
  • John 15:10 : 10 If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.
  • John 17:4-5 : 4 I have glorified You on earth by completing the work You gave Me to do. 5 And now, Father, glorify Me in Your presence with the glory I had with You before the world existed.
  • Rom 3:25-26 : 25 God presented Him as a sacrifice of atonement, through faith in His blood, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance He had passed over the sins previously committed. 26 He did this to demonstrate His righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.
  • Rom 3:31 : 31 Do we then nullify the law by this faith? Absolutely not! Instead, we uphold the law.
  • Rom 7:12 : 12 So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.
  • Rom 8:3-4 : 3 For what the law could not do, weakened as it was by the flesh, God did. By sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as a sin offering, He condemned sin in the flesh. 4 This was so that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
  • Rom 10:4 : 4 For Christ is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
  • 2 Cor 5:19-21 : 19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. 20 We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. 21 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
  • Gal 3:13 : 13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: 'Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.'
  • Gal 3:21 : 21 Is the law, therefore, opposed to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given that could impart life, then righteousness would certainly have come by the law.
  • Gal 5:22-23 : 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
  • Phil 3:9 : 9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith.
  • Heb 8:10 : 10 This is the covenant I will establish with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
  • 1 John 3:4-5 : 4 Everyone who commits sin also practices lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness. 5 You know that He appeared to take away sins, and in Him there is no sin.