Verse 21

The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honorable.

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  • Ps 40:8 : 8 I delight to do Your will, O my God: yes, Your law is within my heart.
  • Ps 71:16 : 16 I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD; I will make mention of your righteousness, even of yours only.
  • Ps 71:19 : 19 Your righteousness also, O God, is very high, who has done great things; O God, who is like unto you!
  • Ps 85:9-9 : 9 Surely His salvation is near to those who fear Him, that glory may dwell in our land. 10 Mercy and truth have met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other. 11 Truth shall spring out of the earth, and righteousness shall look down from heaven. 12 Yes, the LORD will give what is good, and our land will yield its increase.
  • Isa 1:24-27 : 24 Therefore says the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease myself of my adversaries, and avenge myself of my enemies: 25 And I will turn my hand upon you, and thoroughly purge away your dross, and take away all your tin: 26 And I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors as at the beginning: afterward you shall be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city. 27 Zion shall be redeemed with justice, and her converts with righteousness.
  • Isa 42:4 : 4 He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he has set justice in the earth: and the islands shall wait for his law.
  • Isa 46:12-13 : 12 Listen to me, you stouthearted, that are far from righteousness: 13 I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not delay: and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.
  • Dan 9:24-27 : 24 Seventy weeks are determined upon your people and upon your holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. 25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem until the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublesome times. 26 And after sixty-two weeks, the Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; its end shall be with a flood, and until the end of the war desolations are determined. 27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the middle of the week, he shall cause the sacrifice and the offering to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations, he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
  • Matt 3:15 : 15 And Jesus answering said to him, Permit it to be so now: for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness. Then he permitted him.
  • Matt 3:17 : 17 And behold, a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
  • Matt 5:17-20 : 17 Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets: I did not come to destroy, but to fulfill. 18 For truly I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, not one jot or one tittle will by any means pass from the law till all is fulfilled. 19 Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven: but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. 20 For I say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.
  • Matt 17:5 : 5 While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; listen to him.
  • John 8:29 : 29 And he who sent me is with me: the Father has not left me alone; for I always do those things that please him.
  • John 13:31-32 : 31 Therefore, when he had gone out, 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 immediately.
  • John 15:10 : 10 If you keep my commandments, you shall abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in His love.
  • John 17:4-5 : 4 I have glorified you on the earth: I have finished the work which you gave me to do. 5 And now, O Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world was.
  • Rom 3:25-26 : 25 whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed, 26 to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
  • Rom 3:31 : 31 Do we then make void the law through faith? Certainly not: on the contrary, we establish the law.
  • Rom 7:12 : 12 Therefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
  • Rom 8:3-4 : 3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, to condemn sin in the flesh. 4 That the righteousness 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 end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
  • 2 Cor 5:19-21 : 19 That is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not counting their sins against them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation. 20 Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ's behalf, be reconciled to God. 21 For he made him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in him.
  • Gal 3:13 : 13 Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us, for it is written: 'Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree.'
  • Gal 3:21 : 21 Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could have given life, then truly righteousness would have been by the law.
  • Gal 5:22-23 : 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such there is no law.
  • Phil 3:9 : 9 And be found in him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith:
  • Heb 8:10 : 10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord; I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts: and I will be their God, and they shall be my people:
  • 1 John 3:4-5 : 4 Whoever commits sin also transgresses the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. 5 And you know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him there is no sin.