"The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable."
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I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD: I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only.
Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high, who hast done great things: O God, who is like unto thee!
Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him; that glory may dwell in our land.
Therefore saith the LORD, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies:
He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.
Hearken unto me, ye stouthearted, that are far from righteousness:
Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy 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.
And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him.
And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
While he yet spake, 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; hear ye him.
And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him.
Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him.
If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.
I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.
Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.
It was the Lord's pleasure, because of his righteousness, to make the teaching great and give it honour.
Jehovah had delight [in him] for his righteousness' sake: he hath magnified the law, and made it honourable.
The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable.
The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honorable.
It pleased Yahweh, for his righteousness' sake, to magnify the law, and make it honorable.
Jehovah hath delight for the sake of His righteousness, He magnifieth law, and maketh honourable.