144 Bible verses about the Covenant with God

I am putting my bow in the clouds. It will be the sign of my covenant with the world.Whenever I cover the sky with clouds and the rainbow appears,I will remember my promise to you and to all the animals that a flood will never again destroy all living beings.

Then and there the Lord made a covenant with Abram. He said, “I promise to give your descendants all this land from the border of Egypt to the Euphrates River,

“I will keep my promise to you and to your descendants in future generations as an everlasting covenant. I will be your God and the God of your descendants.I will give to you and to your descendants this land in which you are now a foreigner. The whole land of Canaan will belong to your descendants forever, and I will be their God.”

Now, if you will obey me and keep my covenant, you will be my own people. The whole earth is mine, but you will be my chosen people,a people dedicated to me alone, and you will serve me as priests.”

Then he took the book of the Covenant, in which the Lord's commands were written, and read it aloud to the people. They said, “We will obey the Lord and do everything that he has commanded.”Then Moses took the blood in the bowls and threw it on the people. He said, “This is the blood that seals the covenant which the Lord made with you when he gave all these commands.”

Remember that the Lord your God is the only God and that he is faithful. He will keep his covenant and show his constant love to a thousand generations of those who love him and obey his commands,

It is not because you are good and do what is right that the Lord is letting you take their land. He will drive them out because they are wicked and because he intends to keep the promise that he made to your ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Obey faithfully all the terms of this covenant, so that you will be successful in everything you do.

“Today I am giving you a choice between good and evil, between life and death.If you obey the commands of the Lord your God, which I give you today, if you love him, obey him, and keep all his laws, then you will prosper and become a nation of many people. The Lord your God will bless you in the land that you are about to occupy.

The mountains and hills may crumble, but my love for you will never end; I will keep forever my promise of peace.” So says the Lord who loves you.

The Lord says, “I love justice and I hate oppression and crime. I will faithfully reward my people And make an eternal covenant with them.

The Lord says, “The time is coming when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah.It will not be like the old covenant that I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand and led them out of Egypt. Although I was like a husband to them, they did not keep that covenant.The new covenant that I will make with the people of Israel will be this: I will put my law within them and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.None of them will have to teach a neighbor to know the Lord, because all will know me, from the least to the greatest. I will forgive their sins and I will no longer remember their wrongs. I, the Lord, have spoken.”

I will make a covenant with them that guarantees their security. I will get rid of all the dangerous animals in the land, so that my sheep can live safely in the fields and sleep in the forests.

I will give you a new heart and a new mind. I will take away your stubborn heart of stone and give you an obedient heart.I will put my spirit in you and will see to it that you follow my laws and keep all the commands I have given you.

“In my covenant I promised them life and well-being, and this is what I gave them, so that they might respect me. In those days they did respect and fear me.

“this is my blood, which seals God's covenant, my blood poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.

In the same way, he gave them the cup after the supper, saying, “This cup is God's new covenant sealed with my blood, which is poured out for you.

But now, Jesus has been given priestly work which is superior to theirs, just as the covenant which he arranged between God and his people is a better one, because it is based on promises of better things.If there had been nothing wrong with the first covenant, there would have been no need for a second one.

For this reason Christ is the one who arranges a new covenant, so that those who have been called by God may receive the eternal blessings that God has promised. This can be done because there has been a death which sets people free from the wrongs they did while the first covenant was in effect.

“This is the covenant that I will make with them in the days to come, says the Lord: I will put my laws in their hearts and write them on their minds.”And then he says, “I will not remember their sins and evil deeds any longer.”

I will make this covenant with them when I take away their sins.”

The Lord said to Abram, “Leave your country, your relatives, and your father's home, and go to a land that I am going to show you.But there was a famine in Canaan, and it was so bad that Abram went farther south to Egypt, to live there for a while.When he was about to cross the border into Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “You are a beautiful woman.When the Egyptians see you, they will assume that you are my wife, and so they will kill me and let you live.Tell them that you are my sister; then because of you they will let me live and treat me well.”When he crossed the border into Egypt, the Egyptians did see that his wife was beautiful.Some of the court officials saw her and told the king how beautiful she was; so she was taken to his palace.Because of her the king treated Abram well and gave him flocks of sheep and goats, cattle, donkeys, slaves, and camels.But because the king had taken Sarai, the Lord sent terrible diseases on him and on the people of his palace.Then the king sent for Abram and asked him, “What have you done to me? Why didn't you tell me that she was your wife?Why did you say that she was your sister, and let me take her as my wife? Here is your wife; take her and get out!”I will give you many descendants, and they will become a great nation. I will bless you and make your name famous, so that you will be a blessing.The king gave orders to his men, so they took Abram and put him out of the country, together with his wife and everything he owned.I will bless those who bless you, But I will curse those who curse you. And through you I will bless all the nations.”

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, “I am the Almighty God. Obey me and always do what is right.You and your descendants must all agree to circumcise every male among you.From now on you must circumcise every baby boy when he is eight days old, including slaves born in your homes and slaves bought from foreigners. This will show that there is a covenant between you and me.Each one must be circumcised, and this will be a physical sign to show that my covenant with you is everlasting.Any male who has not been circumcised will no longer be considered one of my people, because he has not kept the covenant with me.”God said to Abraham, “You must no longer call your wife Sarai; from now on her name is Sarah.I will bless her, and I will give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she will become the mother of nations, and there will be kings among her descendants.”Abraham bowed down with his face touching the ground, but he began to laugh when he thought, “Can a man have a child when he is a hundred years old? Can Sarah have a child at ninety?”He asked God, “Why not let Ishmael be my heir?”But God said, “No. Your wife Sarah will bear you a son and you will name him Isaac. I will keep my covenant with him and with his descendants forever. It is an everlasting covenant.I will make my covenant with you and give you many descendants.”

“I make a vow by my own name—the Lord is speaking—that I will richly bless you. Because you did this and did not keep back your only son from me,I promise that I will give you as many descendants as there are stars in the sky or grains of sand along the seashore. Your descendants will conquer their enemies.All the nations will ask me to bless them as I have blessed your descendants—all because you obeyed my command.”

The Lord said to Moses, “Write these words down, because it is on the basis of these words that I am making a covenant with you and with Israel.”Moses stayed there with the Lord forty days and nights, eating and drinking nothing. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.

At Mount Sinai the Lord our God made a covenant,“‘Do not accuse anyone falsely. “‘Do not desire another man's wife; do not desire his house, his land, his slaves, his cattle, his donkeys, or anything else that he owns.’ “These are the commandments the Lord gave to all of you when you were gathered at the mountain. When he spoke with a mighty voice from the fire and from the thick clouds, he gave these commandments and no others. Then he wrote them on two stone tablets and gave them to me. “When the whole mountain was on fire and you heard the voice from the darkness, your leaders and the chiefs of your tribes came to meand said, ‘The Lord our God showed us his greatness and his glory when we heard him speak from the fire! Today we have seen that it is possible for people to continue to live, even though God has spoken to them.But why should we risk death again? That terrible fire will destroy us. We are sure to die if we hear the Lord our God speak again.Has any human being ever lived after hearing the living God speak from a fire?Go back, Moses, and listen to everything that the Lord our God says. Then return and tell us what he said to you. We will listen and obey.’“When the Lord heard this, he said to me, ‘I have heard what these people said, and they are right.If only they would always feel this way! If only they would always honor me and obey all my commands, so that everything would go well with them and their descendants forever.not only with our fathers, but with all of us who are living today.

I will not break my covenant with him or take back even one promise I made him.

He says, “Gather my faithful people to me, those who made a covenant with me by offering a sacrifice.”

Lord, you are my God; I will honor you and praise your name. You have done amazing things; you have faithfully carried out the plans you made long ago.

But because of our sins he was wounded, beaten because of the evil we did. We are healed by the punishment he suffered, made whole by the blows he received.

I will make a covenant with them that guarantees their security forever. I will establish them and increase their population, and will see to it that my Temple stands forever in their land.

“Do not think that I have come to do away with the Law of Moses and the teachings of the prophets. I have not come to do away with them, but to make their teachings come true.Remember that as long as heaven and earth last, not the least point nor the smallest detail of the Law will be done away with—not until the end of all things.

When God promised Abraham and his descendants that the world would belong to him, he did so, not because Abraham obeyed the Law, but because he believed and was accepted as righteous by God.

My friends, I am going to use an everyday example: when two people agree on a matter and sign an agreement, no one can break it or add anything to it.Now, God made his promises to Abraham and to his descendant. The scripture does not use the plural “descendants,” meaning many people, but the singular “descendant,” meaning one person only, namely, Christ.

If you belong to Christ, then you are the descendants of Abraham and will receive what God has promised.

Promise that you will help your servant; don't let the arrogant oppress me!

But for those who honor the Lord, his love lasts forever, and his goodness endures for all generations

The Lord says to such a man, “If you honor me by observing the Sabbath and if you do what pleases me and faithfully keep my covenant,then your name will be remembered in my Temple and among my people longer than if you had sons and daughters. You will never be forgotten.”

You must celebrate this day as a religious festival to remind you of what I, the Lord, have done. Celebrate it for all time to come.”

The Lord said to Moses, “I now make a covenant with the people of Israel. In their presence I will do great things such as have never been done anywhere on earth among any of the nations. All the people will see what great things I, the Lord, can do, because I am going to do an awesome thing for you.

Be certain that you do not forget the covenant that the Lord your God made with you. Obey his command not to make yourselves any kind of idol,because the Lord your God is like a flaming fire; he tolerates no rivals.

“If you listen to these commands and obey them faithfully, then the Lord your God will continue to keep his covenant with you and will show you his constant love, as he promised your ancestors.He will love you and bless you, so that you will increase in number and have many children; he will bless your fields, so that you will have grain, wine, and olive oil; and he will bless you by giving you many cattle and sheep. He will give you all these blessings in the land that he promised your ancestors he would give to you.

With faithfulness and love he leads all who keep his covenant and obey his commands.

The Lord says to his people, “When the time comes to save you, I will show you favor and answer your cries for help. I will guard and protect you and through you make a covenant with all peoples. I will let you settle once again in your land that is now laid waste.

The new covenant that I will make with the people of Israel will be this: I will put my law within them and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

But I will honor the covenant I made with you when you were young, and I will make a covenant with you that will last forever.

I ask, then: Did God reject his own people? Certainly not! I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin.May their eyes be blinded so that they cannot see; and make them bend under their troubles at all times.”I ask, then: When the Jews stumbled, did they fall to their ruin? By no means! Because they sinned, salvation has come to the Gentiles, to make the Jews jealous of them.The sin of the Jews brought rich blessings to the world, and their spiritual poverty brought rich blessings to the Gentiles. Then, how much greater the blessings will be when the complete number of Jews is included!I am speaking now to you Gentiles: As long as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I will take pride in my work.Perhaps I can make the people of my own race jealous, and so be able to save some of them.For when they were rejected, all other people were changed from God's enemies into his friends. What will it be, then, when they are accepted? It will be life for the dead!If the first piece of bread is given to God, then the whole loaf is his also; and if the roots of a tree are offered to God, the branches are his also.Some of the branches of the cultivated olive tree have been broken off, and a branch of a wild olive tree has been joined to it. You Gentiles are like that wild olive tree, and now you share the strong spiritual life of the Jews.So then, you must not despise those who were broken off like branches. How can you be proud? You are just a branch; you don't support the roots—the roots support you.But you will say, “Yes, but the branches were broken off to make room for me.”God has not rejected his people, whom he chose from the beginning. You know what the scripture says in the passage where Elijah pleads with God against Israel:

This difference, then, also makes Jesus the guarantee of a better covenant.

I will always keep my promise to him, and my covenant with him will last forever.

Remember your promise to me, your servant; it has given me hope.

This is the list of the ancestors of Jesus Christ, a descendant of David, who was a descendant of Abraham.From the time after the exile in Babylon to the birth of Jesus, the following ancestors are listed: Jehoiachin, Shealtiel, Zerubbabel, Abiud, Eliakim, Azor, Zadok, Achim, Eliud, Eleazar, Matthan, Jacob, and Joseph, who married Mary, the mother of Jesus, who was called the Messiah.So then, there were fourteen generations from Abraham to David, and fourteen from David to the exile in Babylon, and fourteen from then to the birth of the Messiah.

He said he would show mercy to our ancestors and remember his sacred covenant.With a solemn oath to our ancestor Abraham he promised to rescue us from our enemies and allow us to serve him without fear,

The promises of God through his prophets are for you, and you share in the covenant which God made with your ancestors. As he said to Abraham, ‘Through your descendants I will bless all the people on earth.’

They are God's people; he made them his children and revealed his glory to them; he made his covenants with them and gave them the Law; they have the true worship; they have received God's promises;they are descended from the famous Hebrew ancestors; and Christ, as a human being, belongs to their race. May God, who rules over all, be praised forever! Amen.

for it is he who is the “Yes” to all of God's promises. This is why through Jesus Christ our “Amen” is said to the glory of God.

Those who depend on obeying the Law live under a curse. For the scripture says, “Whoever does not always obey everything that is written in the book of the Law is under God's curse!”Now, it is clear that no one is put right with God by means of the Law, because the scripture says, “Only the person who is put right with God through faith shall live.”But the Law has nothing to do with faith. Instead, as the scripture says, “Whoever does everything the Law requires will live.” But by becoming a curse for us Christ has redeemed us from the curse that the Law brings; for the scripture says, “Anyone who is hanged on a tree is under God's curse.”Christ did this in order that the blessing which God promised to Abraham might be given to the Gentiles by means of Christ Jesus, so that through faith we might receive the Spirit promised by God.

The first covenant had rules for worship and a place made for worship as well.

The Holy Spirit clearly teaches from all these arrangements that the way into the Most Holy Place has not yet been opened as long as the outer tent still stands.This is a symbol which points to the present time. It means that the offerings and animal sacrifices presented to God cannot make the worshiper's heart perfect,

Today the Lord has accepted you as his own people, as he promised you; and he commands you to obey all his laws.

He gives his message to his people, his instructions and laws to Israel.The Lord is restoring Jerusalem; he is bringing back the exiles.He has not done this for other nations; they do not know his laws. Praise the Lord!

And there was the Lord standing beside him. “I am the Lord, the God of Abraham and Isaac,” he said. “I will give to you and to your descendants this land on which you are lying.They will be as numerous as the specks of dust on the earth. They will extend their territory in all directions, and through you and your descendants I will bless all the nations.Remember, I will be with you and protect you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done all that I have promised you.”

But God said, “No. Your wife Sarah will bear you a son and you will name him Isaac. I will keep my covenant with him and with his descendants forever. It is an everlasting covenant.

I am now giving you the choice between life and death, between God's blessing and God's curse, and I call heaven and earth to witness the choice you make. Choose life.If you and your descendants will turn back to the Lord and with all your heart obey his commands that I am giving you today,Love the Lord your God, obey him and be faithful to him, and then you and your descendants will live long in the land that he promised to give your ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”

He keeps your borders safe and satisfies you with the finest wheat.

Instead he chose the tribe of Judah and Mount Zion, which he dearly loves.There he built his Temple like his home in heaven; he made it firm like the earth itself, secure for all time.

And I make a covenant with you: I have given you my power and my teachings to be yours forever, and from now on you are to obey me and teach your children and your descendants to obey me for all time to come.”

I, the Lord, will be their God, and a king like my servant David will be their ruler. I have spoken.

I tell you, I will never again drink this wine until the day I drink the new wine with you in my Father's Kingdom.”

“Let us praise the Lord, the God of Israel! He has come to the help of his people and has set them free.He has provided for us a mighty Savior, a descendant of his servant David.

For God's promise was made to you and your children, and to all who are far away—all whom the Lord our God calls to himself.”

This includes everyone, because there is no difference between Jews and Gentiles; God is the same Lord of all and richly blesses all who call to him.As the scripture says, “Everyone who calls out to the Lord for help will be saved.”

But you are the chosen race, the King's priests, the holy nation, God's own people, chosen to proclaim the wonderful acts of God, who called you out of darkness into his own marvelous light.

With these words I make my covenant with you: I promise that never again will all living beings be destroyed by a flood; never again will a flood destroy the earth.

“I make this covenant with you: I promise that you will be the ancestor of many nations.Your name will no longer be Abram, but Abraham, because I am making you the ancestor of many nations.

You and your children must obey these rules forever.

He provides food for those who honor him; he never forgets his covenant.

the Creator of heaven, earth, and sea, and all that is in them. He always keeps his promises;

And so I will give him a place of honor, a place among the great and powerful. He willingly gave his life and shared the fate of evil men. He took the place of many sinners and prayed that they might be forgiven.”

“I have made a covenant with the day and with the night, so that they always come at their proper times; and that covenant can never be broken.In the same way I have made a covenant with my servant David that he would always have a descendant to be king, and I have made a covenant with the priests from the tribe of Levi that they would always serve me; and those covenants can never be broken.

I will give them a new heart and a new mind. I will take away their stubborn heart of stone and will give them an obedient heart.

I will renew my covenant with you, and you will know that I am the Lord.

And so the promise was based on faith, in order that the promise should be guaranteed as God's free gift to all of Abraham's descendants—not just to those who obey the Law, but also to those who believe as Abraham did. For Abraham is the spiritual father of us all;

My friends, I am going to use an everyday example: when two people agree on a matter and sign an agreement, no one can break it or add anything to it.

But when the right time finally came, God sent his own Son. He came as the son of a human mother and lived under the Jewish Law,to redeem those who were under the Law, so that we might become God's children.

He will keep the agreement he made with Abraham and his promise to Isaac.

of those who are true to his covenant and who faithfully obey his commands.

“Do not think that I have come to do away with the Law of Moses and the teachings of the prophets. I have not come to do away with them, but to make their teachings come true.

“This is the covenant that I will make with them in the days to come, says the Lord: I will put my laws in their hearts and write them on their minds.”

The Lord said to Moses, “Write these words down, because it is on the basis of these words that I am making a covenant with you and with Israel.”

Because he loved your ancestors, he chose you, and by his great power he himself brought you out of Egypt.As you advanced, he drove out nations greater and more powerful than you, so that he might bring you in and give you their land, the land which still belongs to you.

“But if his descendants disobey my law and do not live according to my commands,if they disregard my instructions and do not keep my commandments,then I will punish them for their sins; I will make them suffer for their wrongs.

Remember, O Lord, your kindness and constant love which you have shown from long ago.Forgive the sins and errors of my youth. In your constant love and goodness, remember me, Lord!

And this is how all Israel will be saved. As the scripture says, “The Savior will come from Zion and remove all wickedness from the descendants of Jacob.I will make this covenant with them when I take away their sins.”

But the heavenly Jerusalem is free, and she is our mother.

How wonderful it is, how pleasant, for God's people to live together in harmony!

He killed the first-born sons of the Egyptians; his love is eternal.He led the people of Israel out of Egypt; his love is eternal;with his strong hand, his powerful arm; his love is eternal.

“Here is my servant, whom I have chosen, the one I love, and with whom I am pleased. I will send my Spirit upon him, and he will announce my judgment to the nations.

For you know what was paid to set you free from the worthless manner of life handed down by your ancestors. It was not something that can be destroyed, such as silver or gold;it was the costly sacrifice of Christ, who was like a lamb without defect or flaw.

In view of all this, what can we say? If God is for us, who can be against us?

He set his people free and made an eternal covenant with them. Holy and mighty is he!

The Lord says, “It was my will that he should suffer; his death was a sacrifice to bring forgiveness. And so he will see his descendants; he will live a long life, and through him my purpose will succeed.After a life of suffering, he will again have joy; he will know that he did not suffer in vain. My devoted servant, with whom I am pleased, will bear the punishment of many and for his sake I will forgive them.

Go and find out what is meant by the scripture that says: ‘It is kindness that I want, not animal sacrifices.’ I have not come to call respectable people, but outcasts.”

All nations will remember the Lord. From every part of the world they will turn to him; all races will worship him.

Now that we have been put right with God through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.We were God's enemies, but he made us his friends through the death of his Son. Now that we are God's friends, how much more will we be saved by Christ's life!But that is not all; we rejoice because of what God has done through our Lord Jesus Christ, who has now made us God's friends.Sin came into the world through one man, and his sin brought death with it. As a result, death has spread to the whole human race because everyone has sinned.There was sin in the world before the Law was given; but where there is no law, no account is kept of sins.But from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, death ruled over all human beings, even over those who did not sin in the same way that Adam did when he disobeyed God's command. Adam was a figure of the one who was to come.But the two are not the same, because God's free gift is not like Adam's sin. It is true that many people died because of the sin of that one man. But God's grace is much greater, and so is his free gift to so many people through the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ.And there is a difference between God's gift and the sin of one man. After the one sin, came the judgment of “Guilty”; but after so many sins, comes the undeserved gift of “Not guilty!”It is true that through the sin of one man death began to rule because of that one man. But how much greater is the result of what was done by the one man, Jesus Christ! All who receive God's abundant grace and are freely put right with him will rule in life through Christ.So then, as the one sin condemned all people, in the same way the one righteous act sets all people free and gives them life.And just as all people were made sinners as the result of the disobedience of one man, in the same way they will all be put right with God as the result of the obedience of the one man.He has brought us by faith into this experience of God's grace, in which we now live. And so we boast of the hope we have of sharing God's glory!

He will keep his covenant forever, his promises for a thousand generations.

But you, O Lord, are a merciful and loving God, always patient, always kind and faithful.

Never let go of loyalty and faithfulness. Tie them around your neck; write them on your heart.Don't argue with others for no reason when they have never done you any harm.Don't be jealous of violent people or decide to act as they do,because the Lord hates people who do evil, but he takes righteous people into his confidence.The Lord puts a curse on the homes of the wicked, but blesses the homes of the righteous.He has no use for conceited people, but shows favor to those who are humble.Wise people will gain an honorable reputation, but stupid people will only add to their own disgrace.If you do this, both God and people will be pleased with you.

The Lord says to his people, “When the time comes to save you, I will show you favor and answer your cries for help. I will guard and protect you and through you make a covenant with all peoples. I will let you settle once again in your land that is now laid waste.I will say to the prisoners, ‘Go free!’ and to those who are in darkness, ‘Come out to the light!’ They will be like sheep that graze on the hills;

Then you will live in the land I gave your ancestors. You will be my people, and I will be your God.

No, in all these things we have complete victory through him who loved us!

The Lord is good; his love is eternal and his faithfulness lasts forever.

Your righteousness will last forever, and your law is always true.

So let us not become tired of doing good; for if we do not give up, the time will come when we will reap the harvest.

The Lord does not let us forget his wonderful actions; he is kind and merciful.

“I will give water to the thirsty land and make streams flow on the dry ground. I will pour out my spirit on your children and my blessing on your descendants.

His anger lasts only a moment, his goodness for a lifetime. Tears may flow in the night, but joy comes in the morning.

“Ask, and you will receive; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.For everyone who asks will receive, and anyone who seeks will find, and the door will be opened to those who knock.

I have complete confidence in the gospel; it is God's power to save all who believe, first the Jews and also the Gentiles.For the gospel reveals how God puts people right with himself: it is through faith from beginning to end. As the scripture says, “The person who is put right with God through faith shall live.”

Your faithfulness endures through all the ages; you have set the earth in place, and it remains.

“I am the high and holy God, who lives forever. I live in a high and holy place, but I also live with people who are humble and repentant, so that I can restore their confidence and hope.

Instead, be concerned above everything else with the Kingdom of God and with what he requires of you, and he will provide you with all these other things.

God has raised from death our Lord Jesus, who is the Great Shepherd of the sheep as the result of his blood, by which the eternal covenant is sealed. May the God of peace provide you with every good thing you need in order to do his will, and may he, through Jesus Christ, do in us what pleases him. And to Christ be the glory forever and ever! Amen.

He heals the broken-hearted and bandages their wounds.

I find pleasure in obeying your commands, because I love them.I respect and love your commandments; I will meditate on your instructions.

I face your holy Temple, bow down, and praise your name because of your constant love and faithfulness, because you have shown that your name and your commands are supreme.

Do not be afraid—I am with you! I am your God—let nothing terrify you! I will make you strong and help you; I will protect you and save you.

Come and see what God has done, his wonderful acts among people.

I will not break my covenant with him or take back even one promise I made him.“Once and for all I have promised by my holy name: I will never lie to David.

In the night I remember you, Lord, and I think about your law.

I am not saying that the promise of God has failed; for not all the people of Israel are the people of God.

“People of Israel, you are my witnesses; I chose you to be my servant, so that you would know me and believe in me and understand that I am the only God. Besides me there is no other god; there never was and never will be.

For their sake he remembered his covenant, and because of his great love he relented.

Your constant love is better than life itself, and so I will praise you.

His faith did not leave him, and he did not doubt God's promise; his faith filled him with power, and he gave praise to God.

You will do everything you have promised; Lord, your love is eternal. Complete the work that you have begun.

Praise the Lord, my soul! O Lord, my God, how great you are! You are clothed with majesty and glory;You make springs flow in the valleys, and rivers run between the hills.They provide water for the wild animals; there the wild donkeys quench their thirst.In the trees near by, the birds make their nests and sing.From the sky you send rain on the hills, and the earth is filled with your blessings.You make grass grow for the cattle and plants for us to use, so that we can grow our cropsand produce wine to make us happy, olive oil to make us cheerful, and bread to give us strength.The cedars of Lebanon get plenty of rain— the Lord's own trees, which he planted.There the birds build their nests; the storks nest in the fir trees.The wild goats live in the high mountains, and the rock badgers hide in the cliffs.You created the moon to mark the months; the sun knows the time to set.you cover yourself with light. You have spread out the heavens like a tentYou made the night, and in the darkness all the wild animals come out.The young lions roar while they hunt, looking for the food that God provides.When the sun rises, they go back and lie down in their dens.Then people go out to do their work and keep working until evening.Lord, you have made so many things! How wisely you made them all! The earth is filled with your creatures.There is the ocean, large and wide, where countless creatures live, large and small alike.The ships sail on it, and in it plays Leviathan, that sea monster which you made. All of them depend on you to give them food when they need it.You give it to them, and they eat it; you provide food, and they are satisfied.When you turn away, they are afraid; when you take away your breath, they die and go back to the dust from which they came.and built your home on the waters above. You use the clouds as your chariot and ride on the wings of the wind.But when you give them breath, they are created; you give new life to the earth.May the glory of the Lord last forever! May the Lord be happy with what he has made!He looks at the earth, and it trembles; he touches the mountains, and they pour out smoke.I will sing to the Lord all my life; as long as I live I will sing praises to my God.May he be pleased with my song, for my gladness comes from him.May sinners be destroyed from the earth; may the wicked be no more. Praise the Lord, my soul! Praise the Lord!You use the winds as your messengers and flashes of lightning as your servants.You have set the earth firmly on its foundations, and it will never be moved.

But the Spirit produces love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,humility, and self-control. There is no law against such things as these.