Habakkuk 2:4-5

The Righteous Shall Live by His Faith

4 "Behold, his soul is puffed up; it is not upright within him,
but o the righteous shall live by his faith. 1

5 "Moreover, wine 2 is p a traitor,
an arrogant man who is never at rest. 3
His greed is as wide as Sheol;
like death q he has never enough.
r He gathers for himself all nations
and collects as his own all peoples."

  1. Cross References
    Romans 1:17
    For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, "The righteous shall live by faith.
    Galatians 3:11
    Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for "The righteous shall live by faith.
    Hebrews 10:38
    But my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.
    John 3:36
    Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.
  2. Cross References
    Habakkuk 1:13
    You who are of purer eyes than to see evil and cannot look at wrong, why do you idly look at traitors and remain silent when the wicked swallows up the man more righteous than he?
    Isaiah 21:2
    A stern vision is told to me; the traitor betrays, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, O Elam; lay siege, O Media; all the sighing she has caused I bring to an end.
  3. Cross References
    Proverbs 27:20
    Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, and never satisfied are the eyes of man.
  4. Cross References
    Jeremiah 27:7
    All the nations shall serve him and his son and his grandson, until the time of his own land comes. Then many nations and great kings shall make him their slave.
    Habakkuk 1:6
    For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, who march through the breadth of the earth, to seize dwellings not their own.
    Daniel 2:37 - 38
    You, O king, the king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, and the might, and the glory.
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