Isaiah 42:21 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²¹The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable.

Isaiah 42:21 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hebrews 8:10
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:
Romans 3:31
Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
Isaiah 46:12-13
Hearken unto me, ye stouthearted, that are far from righteousness: …
Matthew 3:15
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.
Psalms 40:8
I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.

Topics

Jesus, the Christ Justification

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 18-25)

The prophet, having spoken by way of comfort and encouragement to the believing Jews who waited for the consolation of Israel, here turns to those among them who were unbelieving, for their conviction and humiliation. Among those who were in captivity in Babylon there were some who were as the evil figs in Jeremiah’s vision, who were sent thither for their hurt, to be removed into all the kingdoms…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 21)

21. his righteousness--not His people’s, but His own; Is 42:24 shows that they had no righteousness (Is 45:24; 59:16). God is well pleased with His Son (“in whom My soul delighteth,” Is 42:1), “who fulfils all righteousness” (Mt 3:15) for them, and with them for His sake (compare Is 42:6; Psa 71:16, 19; Mt 5:17; Ro 10:3, 4; Php 3:9). Perhaps in God’s “righteousness” here is included His faithfulne…