Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
Righteousness
Bible References
Righteousness
Luke 2:14
"Glory to God in heaven and on earth! Peace to the men he favors!"
Romans 3:25
For God showed him publicly dying as a sacrifice of reconciliation to be taken advantage of through faith. This was to vindicate his own justice (for in his forbearance, God passed over men's former sins)??26 to vindicate his justice at the present time, and show that he is upright himself, and that he makes those who have faith in Jesus upright also.
Romans 5:1
So as we have been made upright by faith, let us live in peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
Hebrews 7:2
to whom Abraham apportioned one tenth of all the spoil, who is first, as his name shows, king of righteousness and then king of Salem, which means king of peace??3 with no father or mother or ancestry, and with no beginning to his days nor end to his life, but like no one but the Son of God, continues as priest forever.