Isaiah 43:26 Cross References - CAB

²⁶ Put Me in rememberance, and let us contend together; confess your transgressions first, that you may be justified.

¹² But You said, I will do you good, and will make your seed as the sand of the sea, which shall not be numbered for multitude.

^{21 (16:22)} Oh that a man might plead before the Lord, even as the son of man with his neighbor!

³ Oh, that I knew where I might find Him, and come to an end of the matter! ⁴ And I would plead my own cause, and He would fill my mouth with arguments. ⁵ And I would know the remedies which He would speak to me, and I would perceive what He would tell me. ⁶ Though He should come on me in His great strength, then He would not threaten me;

^{4 (39:34)} Why do I yet plead? Being rebuked even while reproving the Lord: hearing such things, whereas I am nothing: and what shall I answer to these arguments? I will lay my hand upon my mouth. ^{5 (39:35)} I have spoken once, but I will not do so a second time.

^{7 (40:2)} Nay, gird up now your loins like a man; and I will ask you, and you shall answer Me. ^{8 (40:3)} Do not set aside My judgment: and do you think that I have dealt with you in any other way, than that you might appear to be righteous?

² Let my prayer be set forth before You as incense; the lifting up of my hands as an evening sacrifice.

¹⁸ And come, let us reason together, says the Lord; and though your sins be as purple, I will make them white as snow; and though they be as scarlet, I will make them white as wool.

¹ Hold a feast to Me, you islands; for the princes shall renew their strength; let them draw near and speak together; then let them declare judgment.

⁹ All the nations are gathered together, and princes shall be gathered out of them; who will declare these things? Or who will declare to you things from the beginning? Let them bring forth their witnesses, and be justified; and let them hear, and declare the truth.

⁸ for He that has justified me draws near. Who is he that pleads with me? Let him stand up against me at the same time; yea, who is he that pleads with me? Let him draw near to me.

²¹ Yet I planted you a fruitful vine, entirely of the right sort — how are you a strange vine turned to bitterness! ²² Though you should wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, still you are stained by your iniquities before Me, says the Lord. ²³ How will you say, I am not polluted, and have not gone after Baal? Behold your ways in the burial ground, and know what you have done: her voice has howled in the evening; ²⁴ she has extended her ways over the waters of the desert; she was hurried along by the lusts of her soul; she is given up to them, who will turn her back? None that seek her shall be weary; at the time of her humiliation they shall find her. ²⁵ Withdraw your foot from a rough way, and your throat from thirst: but she said I will strengthen myself — for she loved strangers, and went after them. ²⁶ As is the shame of a thief when he is caught, so shall the children of Israel be ashamed; they, and their kings, and their princes, and their priests, and their prophets. ²⁷ They said to a tree, You are my father; and to a stone, You have begotten me; and they have turned their backs to Me, and not their faces. Yet in the time of their afflictions they will say, Arise, and save us. ²⁸ And where are your gods which you have made for yourself? Will they arise and save you in the time of your affliction? For according to the number of your cities were your gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem they sacrificed to Baal. ²⁹ Why do you speak unto Me? You all have been ungodly, and you all have transgressed against Me, says the Lord. ³⁰ In vain have I smitten your children; you have not received correction. A sword has devoured your prophets as a destroying lion; yet you feared not. ³¹ Therefore hear the word of the Lord: thus says the Lord, Have I been a wilderness or a dry land to Israel? Why have My people said, We will not be ruled over, and will not come to You anymore? ³² Will a bride forget her attire, or a virgin her ornaments? But My people have forgotten Me days without number! ³³ What fair device will you yet employ in your ways, so as to seek love? It shall not be so; moreover you have done wickedly in corrupting your ways; ³⁴ and in your hands have been found the blood of innocent souls; I have not found them in holes, but on every oak. ³⁵ Yet you said, I am innocent: only let His wrath be turned away from me. Behold, I will plead with you, in that you say, I have not sinned.

³⁷ Thus says the Lord God: Yet for this will I be sought by the house of Israel, to establish them; I will multiply them, even men as sheep;

²⁹ But he, wanting to justify himself, said to Jesus, "And who is my neighbor?"

¹⁵ And He said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. Because that which is exalted among men is an abomination before God.

⁹ Also He spoke this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised the others: ¹⁰ Two men went up to the temple to pray, the one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. ¹¹ The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, 'God, I thank You that I am not like other men--swindlers, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. ¹² I fast twice a week, I tithe on all things, as many as I acquire.' ¹³ And the tax collector, standing far away, would not so much as lift his eyes towards heaven, but beat on his chest, saying, 'God, be merciful to me a sinner!' ¹⁴ I say to you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself shall be humbled, and he who humbles himself shall be exalted."

³³ Who shall bring an accusation against God's elect? It is God who justifies.

³ For they, being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.

³⁵ "Or who has first given to Him, and it shall be repaid to him?"