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Psalms 11:7
For the Lord is righteous, He loves righteousness; His countenance beholds the upright.
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Isaiah 55:3
Incline your ear, and come to Me. Hear, and your soul shall live; And I will make an everlasting covenant with you— The sure mercies of David.
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Jeremiah 9:24
But let him who glories glory in this, That he understands and knows Me, That I am the Lord, exercising lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth. For in these I delight,” says the Lord.
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Psalms 25:8-12
Good and upright is the Lord; Therefore He teaches sinners in the way.The humble He guides in justice, And the humble He teaches His way.All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth, To such as keep His covenant and His testimonies.For Your name’s sake, O Lord, Pardon my iniquity, for it is great.Who is the man that fears the Lord? Him shall He teach in the way He chooses.
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Proverbs 8:20
I traverse the way of righteousness, In the midst of the paths of justice,
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Jeremiah 32:40
And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from doing them good; but I will put My fear in their hearts so that they will not depart from Me.
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Psalms 37:28
For the Lord loves justice, And does not forsake His saints; They are preserved forever, But the descendants of the wicked shall be cut off.
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Zechariah 8:16-17
These are the things you shall do: Speak each man the truth to his neighbor; Give judgment in your gates for truth, justice, and peace;Let none of you think evil in your heart against your neighbor; And do not love a false oath. For all these are things that I hate,’ Says the Lord.”
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Psalms 99:4
The King’s strength also loves justice; You have established equity; You have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.
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1 Samuel 15 21-1 Samuel 15 24
But the people took of the plunder, sheep and oxen, the best of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice to the Lord your God in Gilgal.”So Samuel said:“ Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, As in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, And to heed than the fat of rams.For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, And stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, He also has rejected you from being king.”Then Saul said to Samuel,“ I have sinned, for I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord and your words, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice.
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Genesis 17:7
And I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and your descendants after you.
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2 Samuel 23 5
“ Although my house is not so with God, Yet He has made with me an everlasting covenant, Ordered in all things and secure. For this is all my salvation and all my desire; Will He not make it increase?
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Psalms 33:5
He loves righteousness and justice; The earth is full of the goodness of the Lord.
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Hebrews 13:20-21
Now may the God of peace who brought up our Lord Jesus from the dead, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,make you complete in every good work to do His will, working in you what is well pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
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Proverbs 3:6
In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths.
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Isaiah 5:16
But the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, And God who is holy shall be hallowed in righteousness.
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Psalms 45:7
You love righteousness and hate wickedness; Therefore God, Your God, has anointed You With the oil of gladness more than Your companions.
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Psalms 50:5
“ Gather My saints together to Me, Those who have 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 guide you with My eye.
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Amos 5:21-24
“ I hate, I despise your feast days, And I do not savor your sacred assemblies.Though you offer Me burnt offerings and your grain offerings, I will not accept them, Nor will I regard your fattened peace offerings.Take away from Me the noise of your songs, For I will not hear the melody of your stringed instruments.But let justice run down like water, And righteousness like a mighty stream.
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Matthew 23:13
“ But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither go in yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in.
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2 Thessalonians 3 5
Now may the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God and into the patience of Christ.
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Jeremiah 7:8-11
“ Behold, you trust in lying words that cannot profit.Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods whom you do not know,and then come and stand before Me in this house which is called by My name, and say,‘ We are delivered to do all these abominations’?Has this house, which is called by My name, become a den of thieves in your eyes? Behold, I, even I, have seen it,” says the Lord.
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Isaiah 1:11-13
“ To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to Me?” Says the Lord.“ I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams And the fat of fed cattle. I do not delight in the blood of bulls, Or of lambs or goats.“ When you come to appear before Me, Who has required this from your hand, To trample My courts?Bring no more futile sacrifices; Incense is an abomination to Me. The New Moons, the Sabbaths, and the calling of assemblies— I cannot endure iniquity and the sacred meeting.