When justice is done, it is a joy to the righteous but terror to evildoers.
The way of the Lord is a stronghold to the blameless, but destruction to evildoers.
And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’
The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all causes of sin and all law-breakers, and throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
You meet him who joyfully works righteousness, those who remember you in your ways. Behold, you were angry, and we sinned; in our sins we have been a long time, and shall we be saved?
I perceived that there is nothing better for them than to be joyful and to do good as long as they live;
But he will say, ‘I tell you, I do not know where you come from. Depart from me, all you workers of evil!’ In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God but you yourselves cast out.
The Righteous One observes the house of the wicked; he throws the wicked down to ruin.
Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with a forbidden woman and embrace the bosom of an adulteress?
I will delight in your statutes; I will not forget your word.
Praise the Lord! Blessed is the man who fears the Lord, who greatly delights in his commandments!
I delight to do your will, O my God; your law is within my heart.”
because I delivered the poor who cried for help, and the fatherless who had none to help him. The blessing of him who was about to perish came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was like a robe and a turban. I was eyes to the blind and feet to the lame. I was a father to the needy, and I searched out the cause of him whom I did not know.
For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being,
Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.
If your law had not been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.
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