Deuteronomy 32:4
Good News Translation
"The LORD is your mighty defender, perfect and just in all his ways; Your God is faithful and true; he does what is right and fair.

New Revised Standard Version
The Rock, his work is perfect, and all his ways are just. A faithful God, without deceit, just and upright is he;

Contemporary English Version
The LORD is a mighty rock, and he never does wrong. God can always be trusted to bring justice.

New American Bible
The Rock—how faultless are his deeds, how right all his ways! A faithful God, without deceit, just and upright is he!

Douay-Rheims Bible
The works of God are perfect, and all his ways are judgments: God is faithful and without any iniquity, he is just and right.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The works of God are perfect, and all his ways are judgments: God is faithful and without any iniquity, he is just and right.

the Rock

Deuteronomy 32:18,30,31 Thou hast forsaken the God that begot thee, and hast forgotten the Lord that created thee. . . .

1 Samuel 2:2 There is none holy as the Lord is: for there is no other beside thee, and there is none strong like our God.

2 Samuel 22:2,3,32,47 And he said: The Lord is my rock, and my strength, and my saviour. . . .

2 Samuel 23:3 The God of Israel said to me, the strong one of Israel spoke, the ruler of men, the just ruler in the fear of God.

Psalm 18:2,31,46 The Lord is my firmament, my refuge, and my deliverer. My God is my helper, and in him will I put my trust. My protector, and the horn of my salvation, and my support. . . .

Psalm 61:2-4 To thee have I cried from the ends of the earth: when my heart was in anguish, thou hast exalted me on a rock. Thou hast conducted me; . . .

Psalm 92:15 That they may shew, That the Lord our God is righteous, and there is no iniquity in him.

Isaiah 26:4 You have hoped in the Lord for evermore, in the Lord God mighty for ever.

Isaiah 28:16 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will lay a stone in the foundations of Sion, a tried stone, a corner stone, a precious stone, founded in the foundation. He that believeth, let him not hasten.

Isaiah 32:2 And a man shall be as when one is hid from the wind, and hideth himself from a storm, as rivers of waters in drought, and the shadow of a rock that standeth out in a desert land.

Matthew 16:16-18 Simon Peter answered and said: Thou art Christ, the Son of the living God. . . .

1 Corinthians 10:4 And all drank the same spiritual drink: (And they drank of the spiritual rock that followed them: and the rock was Christ.)

1 Peter 2:6 Wherefore it is said in the scripture: Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious. And he that shall believe in him shall not be confounded.

his work

Genesis 1:31 And God saw all the things that he had made, and they were very good. And the evening and morning were the sixth day.

2 Samuel 22:31 God, his way is immaculate, the word of the Lord is tried by fire: he is the shield of all that trust in him.

Psalm 18:30 As for my God, his way is undefiled: the words of the Lord are fire-tried: he is the protector of all that trust in him.

Psalm 19:7 The law of the Lord is unspotted, converting souls: the testimony of the Lord is faithful, giving wisdom to little ones.

Psalm 138:8 The Lord will repay for me: thy mercy, O Lord, endureth for ever: O despise not the works of thy hands.

Ecclesiastes 3:14 I have learned that all the works which God hath made, continue for ever: we cannot add any thing, nor take away from those things which God hath made that he may be feared.

Matthew 5:48 Be you therefore perfect, as also your heavenly Father is perfect.

James 1:17 Every best gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change nor shadow of alteration.

all his

Deuteronomy 10:18 He doth judgment to the fatherless and the widow, loveth the stranger, and giveth him food and raiment.

Genesis 18:25 Far be it from thee to do this thing, and to slay the just with the wicked, and for the just to be in like case as the wicked; this is not beseeming thee: thou who judgest all the earth, wilt not make this judgment.

Job 35:14 Yea, when thou shalt say: He considereth not: be judged before him, and expect him.

Psalm 9:16 The Lord shall be known when he executeth judgments: the sinner hath been caught in the works of his own hands.

Psalm 97:2 Clouds and darkness are round about him: justice and judgment are the establishment of his throne.

Psalm 99:4 And the king's honour loveth judgment. Thou hast prepared directions: thou hast done judgment and justice in Jacob.

Isaiah 30:18 Therefore the Lord waiteth that he may have mercy on you: and therefore shall he be exalted sparing you: because the Lord is the God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.

Jeremiah 9:24 But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, for I am the Lord that exercise mercy, and judgment, and justice in the earth: for these things please me, saith the Lord.

Daniel 4:37 0

John 5:22 For neither does the Father judge any man: but hath given all judgment to the Son.

Romans 1:32 Who, having known the justice of God, did not understand that they who do such things, are worthy of death: and not only they that do them, but they also that consent to them that do them.

Romans 2:2,5 For we know that the judgment of God is, according to truth, against them that do such things. . . .

James 4:12 There is one lawgiver and judge, that is able to destroy and to deliver.

Revelation 15:3,4 And singing the canticle of Moses, the servant of God, and the canticle of the Lamb, saying: Great and wonderful are thy works, O Lord God Almighty. Just and true are thy ways, O King of ages. . . .

a God

Exodus 34:6 And when he passed before him, he said: O the Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, patient and of much compassion, and true,

Psalm 31:5 Into thy hands I commend my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O Lord, the God of truth.

Psalm 98:3 He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

Psalm 100:5 For the Lord is sweet, his mercy endureth for ever, and his truth to generation and generation.

Psalm 146:6 Who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all things that are in them.

Isaiah 25:1 O Lord, thou art my God, I will exalt O thee, and give glory to thy name: for thou hast done wonderful things, thy designs of old faithful, amen.

Jeremiah 10:10 But the Lord is the true God: he is the living God, and the everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his threatening.

John 1:14,17 And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us (and we saw his glory, the glory as it were of the only begotten of the Father), full of grace and truth. . . .

John 14:6 Jesus saith to him: I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No man cometh to the Father, but by me.

without

Job 34:10 Therefore, ye men of understanding, hear me: far from God be wickedness, and iniquity from the Almighty.

Psalm 92:15 That they may shew, That the Lord our God is righteous, and there is no iniquity in him.

Habakkuk 1:13 Thy eyes are too pure to behold evil, and thou canst not look on iniquity. Why lookest thou upon them that do unjust things, and holdest thy peace when the wicked devoureth the man that is more just than himself?

Romans 3:5 But if our injustice commend the justice of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust, who executeth wrath?

Context
The Song of Moses
3Because I will invoke the name of the Lord: give ye magnificence to our God. 4The works of God are perfect, and all his ways are judgments: God is faithful and without any iniquity, he is just and right.5They have sinned against him, and are none of his children in their filth: they are a wicked and perverse generation.…
Cross References
Genesis 18:25
Far be it from thee to do this thing, and to slay the just with the wicked, and for the just to be in like case as the wicked; this is not beseeming thee: thou who judgest all the earth, wilt not make this judgment.

Deuteronomy 7:9
And thou shalt know that the Lord thy God, he is a strong and faithful God, keeping his covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments, unto a thousand generations:

Deuteronomy 32:15
The beloved grew fat, and kicked: he grew fat, and thick and gross, he forsook God who made him, and departed from God his saviour.

Deuteronomy 32:18
Thou hast forsaken the God that begot thee, and hast forgotten the Lord that created thee.

Deuteronomy 32:30
How should one pursue after a thousand, and two chase ten thousand? Was it not, because their God had sold them, and the Lord had shut them up?

2 Samuel 22:3
God is my strong one, in him will I trust: my shield, and the horn of my salvation: he lifteth me up, and is my refuge: my saviour, thou wilt deliver me from iniquity.

2 Samuel 22:31
God, his way is immaculate, the word of the Lord is tried by fire: he is the shield of all that trust in him.

2 Chronicles 19:7
Let the fear of the Lord be with you, and do all things with diligence: for there is no iniquity with the Lord our God, nor respect of persons, nor desire of gifts.

Job 8:3
Doth God pervert judgment, or doth the Almighty overthrow that which is just?

Job 34:10
Therefore, ye men of understanding, hear me: far from God be wickedness, and iniquity from the Almighty.

Job 36:23
Who can search out his ways? or who can say to him: Thou hast wrought iniquity?

Psalm 18:30
As for my God, his way is undefiled: the words of the Lord are fire-tried: he is the protector of all that trust in him.

Psalm 31:5
Into thy hands I commend my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O Lord, the God of truth.

Psalm 78:35
And they remembered that God was their helper: and the most high God their redeemer.

Psalm 90:16
Look upon thy servants and upon their works: and direct their children.

Psalm 92:15
That they may shew, That the Lord our God is righteous, and there is no iniquity in him.

Isaiah 17:10
Because thou hast forgotten God thy saviour, and hast not remembered thy strong helper: therefore shalt thou plant good plants, and shalt sow strange seed.

Daniel 4:37


Habakkuk 1:12
Wast thou not from the beginning, O Lord my God, my holy one, and we shall not die? Lord, thou hast appointed him for judgment: and made him strong for correction.

Zephaniah 3:5
The just Lord is in the midst thereof, he will not do iniquity: in the morning, in the morning he will bring his judgment to light, and it shall not be hid: but the wicked man hath not known shame.

Deuteronomy 32:3
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