Hebrews 1:9

You love righteousness and hate iniquity; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the festal oil more abundantly than your peers.’

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In The King James Version

Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

In Context

8while of the Son he said – ‘God, your throne is for ever and ever; the scepter of his kingdom is the scepter of Justice;

10Again – ‘You, Lord, in the beginning did lay the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands.

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Cross References

Psalms 2:2with kings of the earth conspiring, and rulers consulting together, against the Lord and against his anointed,

Psalms 11:5The Lord examines the righteous and wicked, and the lover of violence he hates.

Psalms 33:5Justice and right he loves; the earth is full of his kindness.

Psalms 40:8My delight, O God, is to do your will, and your law is within my heart.”

Psalms 89:20“I found my servant David, and anointed with holy oil.

Psalms 119:104Insight I win through your precepts, therefore every false way I hate.

Matthew Henry on Hebrews 1:5-14

The Dignity of Christ. ( a. d. 62.) 4 Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. 5 For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son? 6 And again, when he bringeth in the first-begotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him. 7 And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a… Read the whole commentary →

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