Steadfast love and faithfulness meet; righteousness and peace kiss each other.
Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart.
Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne; steadfast love and faithfulness go before you.
For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
Then justice will dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness abide in the fruitful field. And the effect of righteousness will be peace, and the result of righteousness, quietness and trust forever. My people will abide in a peaceful habitation, in secure dwellings, and in quiet resting places.
For the Lord is good; his steadfast love endures forever, and his faithfulness to all generations.
so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Let the mountains bear prosperity for the people, and the hills, in righteousness!
You will show faithfulness to Jacob and steadfast love to Abraham, as you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.
“Only in the Lord, it shall be said of me, are righteousness and strength; to him shall come and be ashamed all who were incensed against him.
and to him Abraham apportioned a tenth part of everything. He is first, by translation of his name, king of righteousness, and then he is also king of Salem, that is, king of peace.
Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation.”
He has helped his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy, as he spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and to his offspring forever.”
“Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land. In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. And this is the name by which he will be called: ‘The Lord is our righteousness.’
“Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased!”
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