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Psalms 11:7
For the Lord is righteous, he loves justice; the upright will see his face.
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Isaiah 55:3
Give ear and come to me; listen, that you may live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, my faithful love promised to David.
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Jeremiah 9:24
but let the one who boasts boast about this: that they have the understanding to know me, that I am the Lord, who exercises kindness, justice and righteousness on earth, for in these I delight,” declares the Lord.
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Psalms 25:8-12
Good and upright is the Lord; therefore he instructs sinners in his ways.He guides the humble in what is right and teaches them his way.All the ways of the Lord are loving and faithful toward those who keep the demands of his covenant.For the sake of your name, Lord, forgive my iniquity, though it is great.Who, then, are those who fear the Lord? He will instruct them in the ways they should choose.
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Proverbs 8:20
I walk in the way of righteousness, along the paths of justice,
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Jeremiah 32:40
I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never stop doing good to them, and I will inspire them to fear me, so that they will never turn away from me.
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Psalms 37:28
For the Lord loves the just and will not forsake his faithful ones. Wrongdoers will be completely destroyed; the offspring of the wicked will perish.
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Zechariah 8:16-17
These are the things you are to do: Speak the truth to each other, and render true and sound judgment in your courts;do not plot evil against each other, and do not love to swear falsely. I hate all this,” declares the Lord.
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Psalms 99:4
The King is mighty, he loves justice— you have established equity; in Jacob you have done what is just and right.
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1 Samuel 15 21-1 Samuel 15 24
The soldiers took sheep and cattle from the plunder, the best of what was devoted to God, in order to sacrifice them to the Lord your God at Gilgal.”But Samuel replied:“ Does the Lord delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying the Lord? To obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed is better than the fat of rams.For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and arrogance like the evil of idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, he has rejected you as king.”Then Saul said to Samuel,“ I have sinned. I violated the Lord’s command and your instructions. I was afraid of the men and so I gave in to them.
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Genesis 17:7
I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
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2 Samuel 23 5
“ If my house were not right with God, surely he would not have made with me an everlasting covenant, arranged and secured in every part; surely he would not bring to fruition my salvation and grant me my every desire.
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Psalms 33:5
The Lord loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of his unfailing love.
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Hebrews 13:20-21
Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep,equip you with everything good for doing his will, and may he work in us what is pleasing to him, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
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Proverbs 3:6
in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.
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Isaiah 5:16
But the Lord Almighty will be exalted by his justice, and the holy God will be proved holy by his righteous acts.
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Psalms 45:7
You love righteousness and hate wickedness; therefore God, your God, has set you above your companions by anointing you with the oil of joy.
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Psalms 50:5
“ Gather to me this consecrated people, who made a covenant with me by sacrifice.”
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Psalms 32:8
I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my loving eye on you.
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Amos 5:21-24
“ I hate, I despise your religious festivals; your assemblies are a stench to me.Even though you bring me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Though you bring choice fellowship offerings, I will have no regard for them.Away with the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!
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Matthew 23:13
“ Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to.
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2 Thessalonians 3 5
May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love and Christ’s perseverance.
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Jeremiah 7:8-11
But look, you are trusting in deceptive words that are worthless.“‘ Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal and follow other gods you have not known,and then come and stand before me in this house, which bears my Name, and say,“ We are safe”— safe to do all these detestable things?Has this house, which bears my Name, become a den of robbers to you? But I have been watching! declares the Lord.
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Isaiah 1:11-13
“ The multitude of your sacrifices— what are they to me?” says the Lord.“ I have more than enough of burnt offerings, of rams and the fat of fattened animals; I have no pleasure in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats.When you come to appear before me, who has asked this of you, this trampling of my courts?Stop bringing meaningless offerings! Your incense is detestable to me. New Moons, Sabbaths and convocations— I cannot bear your worthless assemblies.