Deuteronomy 4:8
Good News Translation
No other nation, no matter how great, has laws so just as those that I have taught you today.

New Revised Standard Version
And what other great nation has statutes and ordinances as just as this entire law that I am setting before you today?

New American Bible
Or what great nation has statutes and ordinances that are as just as this whole law which I am setting before you today?

Douay-Rheims Bible
For what other nation is there so renowned that hath ceremonies, and just judgments, and all the law, which I will set forth this day before our eyes?

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For what other nation is there so renowned that hath ceremonies, and just judgments, and all the law, which I will set forth this day before our eyes?

Leviticus 10:12,13 And Moses spoke to Aaron, and to Eleazar and Ithamar, his sons that were left: Take the sacrifice that is remaining of the oblation of the Lord, and eat it without leaven beside the altar, because it is holy of holies. . . .

Psalm 19:7-11 The law of the Lord is unspotted, converting souls: the testimony of the Lord is faithful, giving wisdom to little ones. . . .

Psalm 119:86,96,127,128 All thy statutes are truth: they have persecuted me unjustly, do thou help me. . . .

Psalm 147:19,20 Who declareth his word to Jacob: his justices and his judgments to Israel. . . .

Romans 7:12-14 Wherefore the law indeed is holy: and the commandment holy and just and good. . . .

2 Timothy 3:16,17 All scripture, inspired of God, is profitable to teach, to reprove, to correct, to instruct in justice: . . .

Context
An Exhortation to Obedience
7Neither is there any other nation so great, that hath gods so nigh them, as our God is present to all our petitions. 8For what other nation is there so renowned that hath ceremonies, and just judgments, and all the law, which I will set forth this day before our eyes?9Keep thyself therefore, and thy soul carefully. Forget not the words that thy eyes have seen, and let them not go out of thy heart all the days of thy life. Thou shalt teach them to thy sons and to thy grandsons,…
Cross References
Romans 3:2
Much every way. First indeed, because the words of God were committed to them.

Deuteronomy 26:19
And to make thee higher than all nations which he hath created, to his own praise, and name, and glory: that thou mayst be a holy people of the Lord thy God, as he hath spoken.

Psalm 89:14
Justice and judgment are the preparation of thy throne. Mercy and truth shall go before thy face:

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

Psalm 119:144
Thy testimonies are justice for ever: give me understanding, and I shall live.

Psalm 119:160
The beginning of thy words is truth: all the judgments of thy justice are for ever.

Psalm 147:20
He hath not done in like manner to every nation: and his judgments he hath not made manifest to them. Alleluia.

Hosea 8:12
I shall write to him my manifold laws, which have been accounted as foreign.

Deuteronomy 4:7
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