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The Holiness of God: verses to memorise
…on wrongdoing. The prophet is not stating a doctrine at a distance; he is arguing with God about injustice, and he argues from God's own purity.
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Bible verses (5)
Bible Memory verse
Deuteronomy 32:4
…God who does no wrong. It is the ground to stand on when God's providence confuses you. His justice is not on trial. Psalms 18:30 Genesis 18:25 Revelation 15:3 Faithful God, you do no wrong. When I cannot trace your hand, help me trust your character.
Bible Memory verse
Exodus 34:6-7
…is the Bible's most quoted self description of God, echoed across the Old Testament. Mercy and justice are both his. Psalms 103:8 Joel 2:13 Numbers 14:18 Lord, you are merciful and you are just. Let me hold both without shrinking either.
Bible Memory verse
Habakkuk 1:13
…on wrongdoing. The prophet is not stating a doctrine at a distance; he is arguing with God about injustice, and he argues from God's own purity. It shows that holiness is something you may plead when the world looks wrong. God's purity is the reason evil cannot last. Psalms 5:4 Habakkuk 1:2-4…
Bible Memory verse
Micah 6:8
…It compresses a whole ethic into one line, and it puts humility with God at the centre of public justice. Hosea 6:6 Matthew 23:23 Isaiah 1:17 Lord, make me just in my dealings, merciful in my judgments, and humble in your presence.
Bible studies (30)
52 Week Journey
Week 31: The Justice of God
Justice is not a single attribute tacked onto a God who is otherwise defined by love. Scripture presents God's justice as woven through His whole character: He does not overlook wrong, He does not show favoritism, and…
Chapter study
Genesis 4
…do to him, and it changes nothing about the sentence. Genesis 4 holds justice and restraint together. Genesis 9:12-13 The same word used of the rainbow, showing the range of what a sign can be. Numbers 35:9-15 Cities of…
Chapter study
Philippians 4: Contentment Learned in Chains
…eight qualities, truth comes first. Everything that follows, honesty, justice, purity, loveliness, good report, virtue, praise, depends on first being grounded in what is actually true rather than in flattering illusion…
Dig Deeper
What does it mean that Abel's blood speaks?
…What better means, and what it does not mean Abel's blood cries for justice and it cries righteously. It is not the wrong sort of cry. The comparison in Hebrews 12:24 is between blood that calls for a reckoning and…
Dig Deeper
What was the mark God appointed for Cain?
…with good. Romans 3:25-26 How God can restrain judgment without setting justice aside. When you are wronged, the chapter puts a boundary in front of you before you cross it. Name the retaliation you are actually…
Reading plan
Hope: An Advent Reading Plan
…Branch from David's line, a king who will reign wisely and execute justice and righteousness in the land, and who will be called The Lord is our righteousness. This is a promise of a king unlike the failed kings Judah…
Devotional
Mercies New Every Morning
…it. The gospel does. At the cross the mercy of Lamentations 3 and the justice of Lamentations 1 meet in one place. Romans 3:26 says God is both just and the justifier of the one who believes in Jesus. The sin was not…
Verse study
Whatever things are true (Philippians 4:8)
…eight qualities, truth comes first. Everything that follows, honesty, justice, purity, loveliness, good report, virtue, praise, depends on first being grounded in what is actually true rather than in flattering illusion…
Verse study
Yahweh appointed a sign for Cain (Genesis 4:15)
…do to him, and it changes nothing about the sentence. Genesis 4 holds justice and restraint together. Genesis 9:12-13 The same word used of the rainbow, showing the range of what a sign can be. Numbers 35:9-15 Cities of…
Devotional
A Delight, Not a Burden
…in Isaiah 58 begins with a rebuke of fasting done for show while injustice continues unaddressed, in verses 1-7. The Sabbath teaching in verses 13-14 comes at the end of a chapter about right worship generally,…
Devotional
A Throne Established in Righteousness
…God is coming to judge the earth. For a people who have suffered injustice, the coming of a righteous judge is good news, not bad news. This is where the week's theme lands. God's justice was at work in Abraham's day,…
Devotional
As a Father Pities His Children
…the psalm's explicit statement that God's compassion outpaces strict justice toward those who fear Him. Genesis 3:19 The origin of the 'dust' language, spoken at the curse, which Psalm 103 recasts as grounds for…
Devotional
Diligent Hands
…work always guarantees wealth, since Proverbs elsewhere acknowledges injustice and hardship that fall on the innocent. It is a general pattern, true often enough to be worth living by, that diligence tends toward…
Devotional
He Was Pierced for Our Transgressions
…suffering for their transgression. This is where the week's theme of justice reaches its sharpest point. God's justice is not set aside at the cross; it is satisfied there, borne by one who did not deserve it so that…
Devotional
I Am Who I Am
…on that name with a description of His mercy, grace, patience, and justice, showing that the name carries character as well as existence. Exodus 34:6-7 The LORD proclaims His own name and describes His mercy, grace, and…
Devotional
Merciful and Just in the Same Breath
…asks to see his glory. The description does not separate mercy from justice into two moods; it states both as one connected character in a single proclamation. Abundant in loving kindness sits beside will by no means…
Devotional
Mercy Triumphs over Judgment
…than merely softening it. This is not a claim that mercy overrides justice arbitrarily. It sits inside a letter deeply concerned with a faith that produces real works, including mercy shown to the poor and the excluded.…
Devotional
No Partiality
Leviticus 19:15 “‘You shall do no injustice in judgment. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness. WEB The command cuts both ways. Judges…
Devotional
Shall Not the Judge of All the Earth Do Right
…not sweep away the righteous with the wicked. He appeals to God's own justice as the ground for his request. The question is rhetorical, but it is not a demand for information. It is confidence stated as a question: the…
Devotional
Slow to Anger, Yet by No Means Clearing the Guilty
…is real, but it is not the same as ignoring guilt. Forgiveness and justice are not opposites in God's character. Appealing to God's own revealed character is a biblical pattern of prayer. LORD, You are slow to anger and…
Devotional
Ten Righteous
…do right, framing the whole conversation as an appeal to God's own justice rather than a request that he act unjustly by overlooking sin. Abraham is not asking God to be less than just; he is asking whether justice…
Devotional
The Cry That Reaches God
…does not go unheard by God even when it goes unheard by everyone else. Justice for God's people begins with God noticing what others ignore or cause. God notices suffering before He acts to end it. Crying out to God in…
Devotional
Trust and Lean Not
…against the whole book of Proverbs, which acknowledges suffering and injustice, this promise is about the reliability of God's guidance, not the absence of all hardship. Proverbs 3:7-8 The verses immediately following:…
Devotional
Vengeance Is Mine
…drink to one who is thirsty in verse 20, only makes sense because justice has been entrusted to someone else. Believers can extend kindness to those who have wronged them because they are not responsible for making sure…
Devotional
Waiting Through Silence
…a complaint that God does not seem to be listening to violence and injustice, and the book moves through God's answer, the prophet's second complaint, and finally the prayer of chapter 3 where Habakkuk resolves to…
Devotional
Walk Humbly with Your God
…is not another ritual but a way of life summarized in three movements: justice, mercy, and a humble walk with God. Notice that humility here is not a stand-alone virtue but the posture that undergirds the other two.…
Devotional
Wheat and Weeds Together
…judge, the same person who sowed in patience now returning to reap in justice.
Devotional
Where Wrath and Mercy Met
…overlook them. The cross is presented as the demonstration that God's justice was never actually set aside, it was always aimed at this moment. The last line holds both words together without compromise: God is just,…
52 Week Journey
Week 29: The Holiness of God
…in which all the others are true: God's love is holy love, His justice is holy justice, His patience is holy patience. This week is not academic. Holiness is the truth that undoes Isaiah before it commissions him, that…
Reading plan day
Hope: An Advent Reading Plan, day 9: Righteous king
…Branch from David's line, a king who will reign wisely and execute justice and righteousness in the land, and who will be called The Lord is our righteousness. This is a promise of a king unlike the failed kings Judah…
Bible topics (6)
Biblical concept
Day of the LORD
…enemies. Amos tells them the opposite: for a people who have ignored justice and mercy, that day will be darkness, a reckoning rather than a rescue. From its first appearance, the phrase carries this double edge of…
Word and phrase
Righteousness
…in it. Hebrew צֶדֶק tsedeq righteousness, rightness Often paired with justice. In the prophets it includes how the poor are treated, not only private morality. Greek δικαιοσύνη dikaiosune righteousness, justice The same…
Biblical concept
Sacrifice and offering
…is central, given by God Himself. Isaiah 1:11-17 Sacrifice without justice and mercy is refused. Psalm 51:17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. Hebrews 10:12 One sacrifice for sins forever, and then He sat down.…
Biblical concept
The Cross
…the cross doing something, not merely displaying love or exposing injustice, though it does both. Colossians 2:14 pictures a legal record of debt being nailed to the cross and cancelled. 1 Peter 2:24 says Christ bore…
Biblical concept
Vineyard and vine
…on words that survives translation only as a summary: God looked for justice and found bloodshed, He looked for righteousness and heard a cry. Genesis 9:20 Noah plants a vineyard, and the first vineyard in Scripture…
Christian Living
Hell: What the Bible Says
…it for those who trust You. Thank You for the cross where mercy and justice met. Give me a sober heart, and a real concern for people who do not yet know You. The Bible teaches a real judgement to come, and it presents…
Questions and answers (14)
Bible question
Does God hear my prayers?
…obstacles: wrong motives, unrepented sin in Psalm 66:18, cherished injustice in Isaiah 1, and how a man treats his wife in 1 Peter 3:7. These are diagnostic, not condemning, and they are far more specific than a vague…
Bible question
Can God forgive any sin?
…unrighteousness. The verse rests forgiveness on God's faithfulness and justice, not on the size of the sin confessed. It is just for God to forgive because Christ's blood has already paid what confession admits is owed.…
Bible question
How do I forgive someone who hurt me?
…Vengeance is mine, says the Lord. Paul does not tell the wounded that justice does not matter. He tells them it belongs to a better judge. Forgiveness is handing the case over, not dropping it. Joseph forgives without…
Bible question
How do I know God's will for my life?
…walk humbly with your God? WEB When God says what he requires, he names justice, mercy and humble walking rather than a career or a city. Most of God's will is already published and not private. Romans 12:1-2 Therefore…
Bible question
How do I trust God when life is difficult?
…of God at a time Study his faithfulness, or his patience, or his justice. Trust grows out of the knowledge of his name rather than out of effort. Obey the next small thing Not the whole future. The next call, the next…
Bible question
What does it mean to fear the Lord?
…greatness, not an arbitrary emotional demand. It produces practical justice, not only inward feeling Deuteronomy 10:18-19 The same passage that commands fearing God immediately moves to executing justice for the…
Bible question
What does it mean to follow Jesus?
…attendance is the substance. Matthew 23:23-28 Careful religion with justice, mercy and faith left out. Luke 6:46 Why do you call me Lord and not do what I say. Hebrews 10:24-25 Not forsaking our own assembling together.…
Bible question
What does the Bible say about work?
…to servants, foreigners and animals. Rest in Scripture is a matter of justice as well as refreshment. 2 Thessalonians 3:10-12 For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: “If anyone will not work, don’t let…
Bible question
What does the Bible teach about heaven?
…a change of species. Talk of heaven is an excuse to ignore present injustice and suffering The same book that promises no more tears also calls its readers to patient endurance and faithful witness now, in Revelation 2…
Bible question
What is grace?
…cross, which is why it can be freely given without compromising God's justice. Grace gets you started, but you finish by your own effort Galatians 3:3 asks pointedly, 'Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are…
Bible question
What is the Gospel?
…true at once. Sin could not be waved away without cost because God's justice is as real as his mercy, and Christ absorbed the cost in our place. Romans 3:25-26 Christ is set forth 'to declare his righteousness... that…
Bible question
Who is God?
…question, spoken about himself. Mercy is named first and at length, and justice is named without apology in the same breath, which means neither can be dropped from any true account of him. Deuteronomy 6:4 Hear, Israel:…
Bible question
Why did Jesus have to die?
…death of Jesus accomplishes. The death is necessary because love and justice both belong to God 1 John 4:10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our…
Bible question
Why does God seem silent?
…final decades before Judah's exile to Babylon, watching violence and injustice go unpunished and asking God directly why he was silent about it. Job's speeches come from a man stripped of everything, arguing his case to…
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