Hebrews 1:9
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, Your God, has anointed You above Your companions with the oil of joy.””
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“You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, Your God, has anointed You above Your companions with the oil of joy.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; Therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee With the oil of gladness above thy fellows.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“thou didst love righteousness, and didst hate lawlessness; because of this did He anoint thee--God, thy God--with oil of gladness above thy partners;'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Hebrews 1:9 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Numbers 7:43His offering was one silver platter weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, and one silver bowl weighing seventy shekels, both according to the sanctuary shekel and filled with fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;
- Psalms 2:2The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together, against the LORD and against His Anointed One:
- Psalms 2:6“I have installed My King on Zion, upon My holy mountain.”
- Psalms 11:5The LORD tests the righteous and the wicked; His soul hates the lover of violence.
- Psalms 23:5You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.
- Psalms 33:5The LORD loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of His loving devotion.
- Psalms 37:28For the LORD loves justice and will not forsake His saints. They are preserved forever, but the offspring of the wicked will be cut off.
- Psalms 40:8I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your law is within my heart.”
- Psalms 45:7You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, has anointed you above your companions with the oil of joy.
- Psalms 89:20I have found My servant David; with My sacred oil I have anointed him.
- Psalms 89:26He will call to Me, ‘You are my Father, my God, the Rock of my salvation.’
- Psalms 119:104I gain understanding from Your precepts; therefore I hate every false way.
- Psalms 119:128Therefore I admire all Your precepts and hate every false way.
- Proverbs 8:13To fear the LORD is to hate evil; I hate arrogant pride, evil conduct, and perverse speech.
- Isaiah 61:1The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners,
- Isaiah 61:3to console the mourners in Zion— to give them a crown of beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and a garment of praise for a spirit of despair. So they will be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.
- Isaiah 61:8For I, the LORD, love justice; I hate robbery and iniquity; in My faithfulness I will give them their recompense and make an everlasting covenant with them.
- Amos 5:15Hate evil and love good; establish justice in the gate. Perhaps the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”
- Zechariah 8:17do not plot evil in your hearts against your neighbor, and do not love to swear falsely, for I hate all these things,” declares the LORD.
- Luke 4:18“The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to release the oppressed,
- John 1:41He first found his brother Simon and told him, “We have found the Messiah” (which is translated as Christ).
- John 3:34For the One whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God gives the Spirit without limit.
- John 20:17“Do not cling to Me,” Jesus said, “for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go and tell My brothers, ‘I am ascending to My Father and your Father, to My God and your God.’”
- Acts 4:27In fact, this is the very city where Herod and Pontius Pilate conspired with the Gentiles and the people of Israel against Your holy servant Jesus, whom You anointed.
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