144 Bible verses about the Covenant with God

I will put my bow in the cloud and it will be for a sign of the agreement between me and the earth.And whenever I make a cloud come over the earth, the bow will be seen in the cloud,And I will keep in mind the agreement between me and you and every living thing; and never again will there be a great flow of waters causing destruction to all flesh.

In that day the Lord made an agreement with Abram, and said, To your seed have I given this land from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:

And I will make between me and you and your seed after you through all generations, an eternal agreement to be a God to you and to your seed after you.And to you and to your seed after you, I will give the land in which you are living, all the land of Canaan for an eternal heritage; and I will be their God.

If now you will truly give ear to my voice and keep my agreement, you will be my special property out of all the peoples: for all the earth is mine:And you will be a kingdom of priests to me, and a holy nation. These are the words which you are to say to the children of Israel.

And he took the book of the agreement, reading it in the hearing of the people: and they said, Everything which the Lord has said we will do, and we will keep his laws.Then Moses took the blood and let it come on the people, and said, This blood is the sign of the agreement which the Lord has made with you in these words.

And I will have pleasure in you and make you fertile and greater in number; and I will keep my agreement with you.And old stores long kept will be your food, and you will take out the old because of the new;And I will put my holy House among you, and my soul will not be turned away from you in disgust.And I will be present among you and will be your God and you will be my people.

Be certain, then, that the Lord your God is God; whose faith and mercy are unchanging, who keeps his word through a thousand generations to those who have love for him and keep his laws;

Not for your righteousness or because your hearts are upright are you going in to take their land; but because of the evil-doing of these nations the Lord your God is driving them out from before you, and to give effect to his oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

So keep the words of this agreement and do them, so that it may be well for you in everything you do.

See, I have put before you today, life and good, and death and evil;In giving you orders today to have love for the Lord your God, to go in his ways and keep his laws and his orders and his decisions, so that you may have life and be increased, and that the blessing of the Lord your God may be with you in the land where you are going, the land of your heritage.

He has kept his agreement in mind for ever, the word which he gave for a thousand generations;The agreement which he made with Abraham, and his oath to Isaac;And he gave it to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an eternal agreement;

For the mountains may be taken away, and the hills be moved out of their places, but my love will not be taken from you, or my agreement of peace broken, says the Lord, who has had mercy on you.

For I, the Lord, take pleasure in upright judging; I will not put up with the violent taking away of right; and I will certainly give them their reward, and I will make an eternal agreement with them.

See, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new agreement with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah:Not like the agreement which I made with their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand to be their guide out of the land of Egypt; which agreement was broken by them, and I gave them up, says the Lord.But this is the agreement which I will make with the people of Israel after those days, says the Lord; I will put my law in their inner parts, writing it in their hearts; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.And no longer will they be teaching every man his neighbour and every man his brother, saying, Get knowledge of the Lord: for they will all have knowledge of me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord: for they will have my forgiveness for their evil-doing, and their sin will go from my memory for ever.

And I will make with them an agreement of peace, and will put an end to evil beasts through all the land: and they will be living safely in the waste land, sleeping in the woods.

And I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you: I will take away the heart of stone from your flesh, and give you a heart of flesh.And I will put my spirit in you, causing you to be guided by my rules, and you will keep my orders and do them.

My agreement with him was on my side life and peace, and I gave them to him; on his side fear, and he had fear of me and gave honour to my name.

Take of it, all of you, for this is my blood of the testament, which is given for men for the forgiveness of sins.

And in the same way, after the meal, he took the cup, saying, This cup is the new testament, made with my blood which is given for you.

But now his position as priest is higher. because through him God has made a better agreement with man, based on the giving of better things.For if that first agreement had been as good as possible, there would have been no place for a second.

And for this cause it is through him that a new agreement has come into being, so that after the errors under the first agreement had been taken away by his death, the word of God might have effect for those who were marked out for an eternal heritage.

This is the agreement which I will make with them after those days, says the Lord; I will put my laws in their hearts, writing them in their minds; he said,And I will keep no more memory of their sins and of their evil-doings.

And this is my agreement with them, when I will take away their sins.

Now the Lord said to Abram, Go out from your country and from your family and from your father's house, into the land to which I will be your guide:And I will make of you a great nation, blessing you and making your name great; and you will be a blessing:To them who are good to you will I give blessing, and on him who does you wrong will I put my curse: and you will become a name of blessing to all the families of the earth.

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord came to him, and said, I am God, Ruler of all; go in my ways and be upright in all things,And I will make an agreement between you and me, and your offspring will be greatly increased.

Saying, I have taken an oath by my name, says the Lord, because you have done this and have not kept back from me your dearly loved only son,That I will certainly give you my blessing, and your seed will be increased like the stars of heaven and the sand by the seaside; your seed will take the land of those who are against them;And your seed will be a blessing to all the nations of the earth, because you have done what I gave you orders to do.

And the Lord said to Moses, Put all these words in writing; for on them is based the agreement which I will make with you.And for forty days and forty nights Moses was there with the Lord, and in that time he had no food or drink. And he put in writing on the stones the words of the agreement, the ten rules of the law.

The Lord our God made an agreement with us in Horeb.The Lord did not make this agreement with our fathers but with us, who are all living and present here today.

I will be true to my agreement; the things which have gone out of my lips will not be changed.

The agreement which he made with Abraham, and his oath to Isaac;And he gave it to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an eternal agreement;

Let my saints come together to me; those who have made an agreement with me by offerings.

O Lord, you are my God; I will give praise to you, I will give honour to your name; for you have done great acts of power; your purposes in the past have been made true and certain in effect.

But it was for our sins he was wounded, and for our evil doings he was crushed: he took the punishment by which we have peace, and by his wounds we are made well.

And I will make an agreement of peace with them: it will be an eternal agreement with them: and I will have mercy on them and make their numbers great, and will put my holy place among them for ever.

Let there be no thought that I have come to put an end to the law or the prophets. I have not come for destruction, but to make complete.Truly I say to you, Till heaven and earth come to an end, not the smallest letter or part of a letter will in any way be taken from the law, till all things are done.

For God's word, that the earth would be his heritage, was given to Abraham, not through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

Brothers, as men would say, even a man's agreement, when it has been made certain, may not be put on one side, or have additions made to it.Now to Abraham were the undertakings given, and to his seed. He says not, And to seeds, as of a great number; but as of one, he says, And to your seed, which is Christ.

And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, and yours is the heritage by the right of God's undertaking given to Abraham.

Take your servant's interests into your keeping; let me not be crushed by the men of pride.

But the mercy of the Lord is eternal for his worshippers, and their children's children will see his righteousness;

For the Lord says, As for the unsexed who keep my Sabbaths, and give their hearts to pleasing me, and keep their agreement with me:I will give to them in my house, and inside my walls, a place and a name better than that of sons and daughters; I will give them an eternal name which will not be cut off.

And this day is to be kept in your memories: you are to keep it as a feast to the Lord through all your generations, as an order for ever.

And the Lord said, See, this is what I will undertake: before the eyes of your people I will do wonders, such as have not been done in all the earth or in any nation: and all your people will see the work of the Lord, for what I am about to do for you is greatly to be feared.

Take care that you do not let the agreement of the Lord your God, which he has made with you, go out of your mind, or make for yourselves images of any sort, against the orders which the Lord your God has given you.For the Lord your God is an all-burning fire, and he will not let the honour which is his be given to any other.

And it will be, that if you give attention to these decisions and keep and do them, then the Lord will keep his agreement with you and his mercy, as he said in his oath to your fathers.And he will give you his love, blessing you and increasing you: he will send his blessing on the offspring of your body and the fruit of your land, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the young of your flock, in the land which by his oath to your fathers he undertook to give you.

The Lord will keep you as a people holy to himself, as he has said to you in his oath, if you keep the orders of the Lord your God and go on walking in his ways.And all the peoples of the earth will see that the name of the Lord is on you, and they will go in fear of you.

All the ways of the Lord are mercy and good faith for those who keep his agreement and his witness.

This is the word of the Lord: I have given ear to you at a good time, and I have been your helper in a day of salvation: and I will keep you safe, and will make you a glory for the people, putting the land in order, and giving them the heritages which now are waste;

But this is the agreement which I will make with the people of Israel after those days, says the Lord; I will put my law in their inner parts, writing it in their hearts; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.

But still I will keep in mind the agreement made with you in the days when you were young, and I will make with you an eternal agreement.

So I say, Has God put his people on one side? Let there be no such thought. For I am of Israel, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.God has not put away the people of his selection. Or have you no knowledge of what is said about Elijah in the holy Writings? how he says words to God against Israel,

By so much is it a better agreement which we have through Jesus.

For, protesting against them, he says, See, the days are coming when I will make a new agreement with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah;Not like the agreement which I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand, to be their guide out of the land of Egypt; for they did not keep the agreement with me, and I gave them up, says the Lord.For this is the agreement which I will make with the people of Israel after those days: I will put my laws into their minds, writing them in their hearts: and I will be their God, and they will be my people:

I will keep my mercy for him for ever; my agreement with him will not be changed.

ZAIN Keep in mind your word to your servant, for on it has my hope been fixed.

The book of the generations of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.The son of Abraham was Isaac; and the son of Isaac was Jacob; and the sons of Jacob were Judah and his brothers;And the sons of Judah were Perez and Zerah by Tamar; and the son of Perez was Hezron; and the son of Hezron was Ram;And the son of Ram was Amminadab; and the son of Amminadab was Nahshon; and the son of Nahshon was Salmon;And the son of Salmon by Rahab was Boaz; and the son of Boaz by Ruth was Obed; and the son of Obed was Jesse;And the son of Jesse was David the king; and the son of David was Solomon by her who had been the wife of Uriah;And the son of Solomon was Rehoboam; and the son of Rehoboam was Abijah; and the son of Abijah was Asa;And the son of Asa was Jehoshaphat; and the son of Jehoshaphat was Joram; and the son of Joram was Uzziah;And the son of Uzziah was Jotham; and the son of Jotham was Ahaz; and the son of Ahaz was Hezekiah;And the son of Hezekiah was Manasseh; and the son of Manasseh was Amon; and the son of Amon was Josiah;And the sons of Josiah were Jechoniah and his brothers, at the time of the taking away to Babylon.And after the taking away to Babylon, Jechoniah had a son Shealtiel; and Shealtiel had Zerubbabel;And Zerubbabel had Abiud; and Abiud had Eliakim; and Eliakim had Azor;And Azor had Zadok; and Zadok had Achim; and Achim had Eliud;And Eliud had Eleazar; and Eleazar had Matthan; and Matthan had Jacob;And the son of Jacob was Joseph the husband of Mary, who gave birth to Jesus, whose name is Christ.So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David to the taking away to Babylon, fourteen generations; and from the taking away to Babylon to the coming of Christ, fourteen generations.

To do acts of mercy to our fathers and to keep in mind his holy word,The oath which he made to Abraham, our father,

You are the sons of the prophets, and of the agreement which God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, Through your seed a blessing will come on all the families of the earth.

Who are Israelites: who have the place of sons, and the glory, and the agreements with God, and the giving of the law, and the worship, and the hope offered by God:Whose are the fathers, and of whom came Christ in the flesh, who is over all, God, to whom be blessing for ever. So be it.

For he is the Yes to all the undertakings of God: and by him all the words of God are made certain and put into effect, to the glory of God through us.

For all who are of the works of the law are under a curse: because it is said in the Writings, A curse is on everyone who does not keep on doing all the things which are ordered in the book of the law.Now that no man gets righteousness by the law in the eyes of God, is clear; because, The upright will be living by faith.And the law is not of faith; but, He who does them will have life by them.Christ has made us free from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us: because it is said in the Writings, A curse on everyone who is put to death by hanging on a tree:So that on the Gentiles might come the blessing of Abraham in Christ Jesus; in order that we through faith might have the Spirit which God had undertaken to give.

Now the first agreement had its rules of worship, and a holy order.

The Holy Spirit witnessing by this that the way into the holy place had not at that time been made open, while the first Tent was still in being;And this is an image of the present time; when the offerings which are given are not able to make the heart of the worshipper completely clean,

And the Lord has made it clear this day that you are a special people to him, as he gave you his word; and that you are to keep all his orders;

He makes his word clear to Jacob, teaching Israel his laws and his decisions.He has not done these things for any other nation: and as for his laws, they have no knowledge of them. Let the Lord be praised.

And he saw the Lord by his side, saying, I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac: I will give to you and to your seed this land on which you are sleeping.Your seed will be like the dust of the earth, covering all the land to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south: you and your seed will be a name of blessing to all the families of the earth.And truly, I will be with you, and will keep you wherever you go, guiding you back again to this land; and I will not give you up till I have done what I have said to you.

And God said, Not so; but Sarah, your wife, will have a son, and you will give him the name Isaac, and I will make my agreement with him for ever and with his seed after him.

Let heaven and earth be my witnesses against you this day that I have put before you life and death, a blessing and a curse: so take life for yourselves and for your seed:In loving the Lord your God, hearing his voice and being true to him: for he is your life and by him will your days be long: so that you may go on living in the land which the Lord gave by an oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

He gives peace in all your land, making your stores full of fat grain.

But he took the tribe of Judah for himself, and the mountain of Zion, in which he had pleasure.And he made his holy place like the high heaven, like the earth which is fixed by him for ever.

And as for me, this is my agreement with them, says the Lord: my spirit which is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth, will not go away from your mouth, or from the mouth of your seed, or from the mouth of your seed's seed, says the Lord, from now and for ever.

And I the Lord will be their God and my servant David their ruler; I the Lord have said it.

But I say to you that from now I will not take of this fruit of the vine, till that day when I take it new with you in my Father's kingdom.

Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, for he has come to his people and made them free,Lifting up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David,

For the word of God is for you and for your children and for all those who are far off, even all those who may be marked out by the Lord our God.

And the Jew is not different from the Greek: for there is the same Lord of all, who is good to all who have hope in his name:Because, Whoever will give worship to the name of the Lord will get salvation.

But you are a special people, a holy nation, priests and kings, a people given up completely to God, so that you may make clear the virtues of him who took you out of the dark into the light of heaven.

And I will make my agreement with you; never again will all flesh be cut off by the waters; never again will the waters come over all the earth for its destruction.

As for me, my agreement is made with you, and you will be the father of nations without end.No longer will your name be Abram, but Abraham, for I have made you the father of a number of nations.

And you are to keep this as an order to you and to your sons for ever.

He has given food to his worshippers; he will keep his agreement in mind for ever.

Who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all things in them; who keeps faith for ever:

For this cause he will have a heritage with the great, and he will have a part in the goods of war with the strong, because he gave up his life, and was numbered with the evil-doers; taking on himself the sins of the people, and making prayer for the wrongdoers.

The Lord has said: If it is possible for my agreement of the day and the night to be broken, so that day and night no longer come at their fixed times,Then my agreement with my servant David may be broken, so that he no longer has a son to take his place on the seat of the kingdom; and my agreement with the Levites, the priests, my servants.

And I will give them a new heart, and I will put a new spirit in them; and I will take the heart of stone out of their flesh and give them a heart of flesh:

And I will make my agreement with you; and you will be certain that I am the Lord:

For this reason it is of faith, so that it may be through grace; and so that the word of God may be certain to all the seed; not only to that which is of the law, but to that which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,

Brothers, as men would say, even a man's agreement, when it has been made certain, may not be put on one side, or have additions made to it.

But when the time had come, God sent out his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,That he might make them free who were under the law, and that we might be given the place of sons.

The agreement which he made with Abraham, and his oath to Isaac;

If they keep his agreement, and have his laws in mind to do them.

Let there be no thought that I have come to put an end to the law or the prophets. I have not come for destruction, but to make complete.

This is the agreement which I will make with them after those days, says the Lord; I will put my laws in their hearts, writing them in their minds; he said,

And the Lord said to Moses, Put all these words in writing; for on them is based the agreement which I will make with you.

And because of his love for your fathers, he took their seed and made it his, and he himself, present among you, took you out of Egypt by his great power;Driving out before you nations greater and stronger than you, to take you into their land and give it to you for your heritage, as at this day.

If his children give up my law, and are not ruled by my decisions;If my rules are broken, and my orders are not kept;Then I will send punishment on them for their sin; my rod will be the reward of their evil-doing.

O Lord, keep in mind your pity and your mercies; for they have been from the earliest times.Do not keep in mind my sins when I was young, or my wrongdoing: let your memory of me be full of mercy, O Lord, because of your righteousness.

And so all Israel will get salvation: as it is said in the holy Writings, There will come out of Zion the One who makes free; by him wrongdoing will be taken away from Jacob:And this is my agreement with them, when I will take away their sins.

But the Jerusalem on high is free, which is our mother.

A Song of the going up. Of David. See how good and how pleasing it is for brothers to be living together in harmony!

To him who put to death the first-fruits of Egypt: for his mercy is unchanging for ever:And took out Israel from among them: for his mercy is unchanging for ever:With a strong hand and an outstretched arm: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

See my servant, the man of my selection, my loved one in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my Spirit on him, and he will make my decision clear to the Gentiles.

Being conscious that you have been made free from that foolish way of life which was your heritage from your fathers, not through a payment of things like silver or gold which come to destruction,But through holy blood, like that of a clean and unmarked lamb, even the blood of Christ:

What may we say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us?

He has sent salvation to his people; he has given his word for ever: holy is his name and greatly to be feared.

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But go and take to heart the sense of these words, My desire is for mercy, not offerings: for I have come not to get the upright, but sinners.

All the ends of the earth will keep it in mind and be turned to the Lord: all the families of the nations will give him worship.

For which reason, because we have righteousness through faith, let us be at peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;Through whom, in the same way, we have been able by faith to come to this grace in which we now are; and let us have joy in hope of the glory of God.

He has kept his agreement in mind for ever, the word which he gave for a thousand generations;

But you, O Lord, are a God full of pity and forgiveness, slow to get angry, great in mercy and wisdom.

Let not mercy and good faith go from you; let them be hanging round your neck, recorded on your heart;So you will have grace and a good name in the eyes of God and men.

This is the word of the Lord: I have given ear to you at a good time, and I have been your helper in a day of salvation: and I will keep you safe, and will make you a glory for the people, putting the land in order, and giving them the heritages which now are waste;Saying to those who are in chains, Go free; to those who are in the dark, Come out into the light. They will get food by the way wherever they go, and have grass-lands on all the dry mountain-tops.

So that you may go on living in the land which I gave to your fathers; and you will be to me a people, and I will be to you a God.

But we are able to overcome all these things and more through his love.

For the Lord is good, and his mercy is never-ending; his faith is unchanging through all generations.

Your righteousness is an unchanging righteousness, and your law is certain.

And let us not get tired of well-doing; for at the right time we will get in the grain, if we do not give way to weariness.

Certain for ever is the memory of his wonders: the Lord is full of pity and mercy.

For I will send water on the land needing it, and streams on the dry earth: I will let my spirit come down on your seed, and my blessing on your offspring.

For his wrath is only for a minute; in his grace there is life; weeping may be for a night, but joy comes in the morning.

Make a request, and it will be answered; what you are searching for you will get; give the sign, and the door will be open to you:Because to everyone who makes a request, it will be given; and he who is searching will get his desire, and to him who gives the sign, the door will be open.

For I have no feeling of shame about the good news, because it is the power of God giving salvation to everyone who has faith, to the Jew first, and then to the Greek.For in it there is the revelation of the righteousness of God from faith to faith: as it is said in the holy Writings, The man who does righteousness will be living by his faith.

Your faith is unchanging from generation to generation: you have put the earth in its place, and it is not moved.

For this is the word of him who is high and lifted up, whose resting-place is eternal, whose name is Holy: my resting-place is in the high and holy place, and with him who is crushed and poor in spirit, to give life to the spirit of the poor, and to make strong the heart of the crushed.

The law of the Lord is good, giving new life to the soul: the witness of the Lord is certain, giving wisdom to the foolish.The orders of the Lord are right, making glad the heart: the rule of the Lord is holy, giving light to the eyes.The fear of the Lord is clean, and has no end; the decisions of the Lord are true and full of righteousness.More to be desired are they than gold, even than much shining gold; sweeter than the dropping honey.

But let your first care be for his kingdom and his righteousness; and all these other things will be given to you in addition.

Now may the God of peace, who made that great keeper of his flock, even our Lord Jesus, come back from the dead through the blood of the eternal agreement,Make you full of every good work and ready to do all his desires, working in us whatever is pleasing in his eyes through Jesus Christ; and may the glory be given to him for ever and ever. So be it.

He makes the broken-hearted well, and puts oil on their wounds.

And so that I may take delight in your teachings, to which I have given my love.And so that my hands may be stretched out to you; and I will give thought to your rules.

I will give worship before your holy Temple, praising your name for your mercy and for your unchanging faith: for you have made your word greater than all your name.

Have no fear, for I am with you; do not be looking about in trouble, for I am your God; I will give you strength, yes, I will be your helper; yes, my true right hand will be your support.

Come and see the works of God: he is to be feared in all he does to the children of men.

And when Jesus was going from there, he saw a man whose name was Matthew, seated at the place where taxes were taken; and he said to him, Come after me. And he got up and went after him.And it came about, when he was in the house taking food, that a number of tax-farmers and sinners came and took their places with Jesus and his disciples.

I will be true to my agreement; the things which have gone out of my lips will not be changed.I have made an oath once by my holy name, that I will not be false to David.

I have given thought to your name in the night, O Lord, and have kept your law.

But it is not as if the word of God was without effect. For they are not all Israel, who are of Israel:

You are my witnesses, says the Lord, and my servant whom I have taken for myself: so that you may see and have faith in me, and that it may be clear to you that I am he; before me there was no God formed, and there will not be after me.

And kept in mind his agreement with them, and in his great mercy gave them forgiveness.

Because your mercy is better than life, my lips will give you praise.

Still, he did not give up faith in the undertaking of God, but was made strong by faith, giving glory to God,

The Lord will make all things complete for me: O Lord, your mercy is eternal; do not give up the works of your hands.

Give praise to the Lord, O my soul. O Lord my God, you are very great; you are robed with honour and power.You are clothed with light as with a robe; stretching out the heavens like a curtain:The arch of your house is based on the waters; you make the clouds your carriage; you go on the wings of the wind:He makes winds his angels, and flames of fire his servants.He has made the earth strong on its bases, so that it may not be moved for ever and ever;

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, a quiet mind, kind acts, well-doing, faith,Gentle behaviour, control over desires: against such there is no law.