Isaiah 51:1

⁷“Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law. Don’t fear the reproach of men, and don’t be dismayed at their insults.

¹⁵For judgment will return to righteousness. All the upright in heart shall follow it.

¹⁴Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

³Glory in his holy name. Let the heart of those who seek the LORD rejoice. ⁴Seek the LORD and his strength. Seek his face forever more.

³⁰What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn’t follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith; ³¹but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn’t arrive at the law of righteousness. ³²Why? Because they didn’t seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,

¹⁹So then, let’s follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.

¹¹Therefore remember that once you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called “uncircumcision” by that which is called “circumcision” (in the flesh, made by hands), ¹²that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

⁹The way of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD, but he loves him who follows after righteousness.

¹²“Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel my called: I am he. I am the first. I am also the last.

⁶Seek the LORD, and you will live, lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, and there be no one to quench it in Bethel.