Right love and faithfulness meet each other

Both peace and righteousness kiss each other

Faithfulness will spring up from the ground

Righteousness from above look down

The Lord will give what is good

And our land will give it’s food

Righteous will be before him

And will set his feet on the road

-Psalm 85

It is said that Christian virtues have been divorced from each other. Righteousness, love, faithfulness, peace, have been set against each other. The one who advocates love does so at the expense of justice. For the sake of peace the assertion of right and wrong are sacrificed. Love knows nothing of faithfulness, and faithfulness has nothing to do with love.

Who hopes in the life to come? Hope in this my friend: that Right love and faithfulness will meet each other, and peace and righteousness will kiss each other. How hard it is to be faithful; in that day, faithfulness will spring from the ground!

For Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example that you might follow in his steps. For he committed no sin, nor was there deceit in his mouth. When he was reviled, he did not revile back. When he suffered he did not threaten, but continually gave himself up to the one who judges the righteous. He himself took up our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to our sins and live to righteousness; by his wounds you are healed.

-I Peter 2:21- 25

There is yet one who was faithful and is faithful; him in whom all is at peace, and whose righteousness is love