For the LORD [is] righteous, He loves righteousness; His countenance beholds the upright.

Your throne, O God, [is] forever and ever; A scepter of righteousness [is] the scepter of Your kingdom.

You love righteousness and hate wickedness; Therefore God, Your God, has anointed You With the oil of gladness more than Your companions.

The King's strength also loves justice; You have established equity; You have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.

Therefore the LORD will wait, that He may be gracious to you; And therefore He will be exalted, that He may have mercy on you. For the LORD [is] a God of justice; Blessed [are] all those who wait for Him.

"For I, the LORD, love justice; I hate robbery for burnt offering; I will direct their work in truth, And will make with them an everlasting covenant.

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.

I have been young, and [now] am old; Yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, Nor his descendants begging bread.

And the LORD shall help them and deliver them; He shall deliver them from the wicked, And save them, Because they trust in Him.

Those who are planted in the house of the LORD Shall flourish in the courts of our God.

To declare that the LORD is upright; [He is] my rock, and [there is] no unrighteousness in Him.

"As for Me," says the LORD, "this [is] My covenant with them: My Spirit who [is] upon you, and My words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your descendants, nor from the mouth of your descendants' descendants," says the LORD, "from this time and forevermore."

'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.

'Yes, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will assuredly plant them in this land, with all My heart and with all My soul.'

" Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life.

"This is the will of the Father who sent Me, that of all He has given Me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day.

"And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day."

"And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand.

"I and [My] Father are one."

" As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love.

They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but [they went out] that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us.

who are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

Jude, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, To those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ:

Their offspring You shall destroy from the earth, And their descendants from among the sons of men.

you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the LORD your God, [am] a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth [generations] of those who hate Me,

He has neither son nor posterity among his people, Nor any remaining in his dwellings.

If his children are multiplied, [it is] for the sword; And his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

But the wicked will be cut off from the earth, And the unfaithful will be uprooted from it.

You will not be joined with them in burial, Because you have destroyed your land [And] slain your people. The brood of evildoers shall never be named.

Prepare slaughter for his children Because of the iniquity of their fathers, Lest they rise up and possess the land, And fill the face of the world with cities."