Psalm 74:20
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20 Have regard for your[a] covenant,
for the dark places of the land are full of the haunts of violence.(A)
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- 74.20 Gk Syr: Heb the
Psalm 106:45
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45 For their sake he remembered his covenant
and showed compassion according to the abundance of his steadfast love.(A)
Genesis 17:7-8
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7 I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring after you.(A) 8 And I will give to you and to your offspring after you the land where you are now an alien, all the land of Canaan, for a perpetual holding, and I will be their God.”(B)
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Hebrews 8:10
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10 This is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel
after those days, says the Lord:
I will put my laws in their minds
and write them on their hearts,
and I will be their God,
and they shall be my people.(A)
Jeremiah 33:20-26
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20 Thus says the Lord: If any of you could break my covenant with the day and my covenant with the night, so that day and night would not come at their appointed time,(A) 21 only then could my covenant with my servant David be broken, so that he would not have a son to reign on his throne, and my covenant with my ministers the Levites.(B) 22 Just as the host of heaven cannot be numbered and the sands of the sea cannot be measured, so I will increase the offspring of my servant David and the Levites who minister to me.(C)
23 The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah: 24 Have you not observed how these people say, “The two families that the Lord chose have been rejected by him,” and how they hold my people in such contempt that they no longer regard them as a nation?(D) 25 Thus says the Lord: Only if I had not established my covenant with day and night and the ordinances of heaven and earth(E) 26 would I reject the offspring of Jacob and of my servant David and not choose any of his descendants as rulers over the offspring of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. For I will restore their fortunes and will have mercy upon them.(F)
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Psalm 105:8
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8 He is mindful of his covenant forever,
of the word that he commanded for a thousand generations,
Psalm 89:34-36
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34 I will not violate my covenant
or alter the word that went forth from my lips.(A)
35 Once and for all I have sworn by my holiness;
I will not lie to David.(B)
36 His line shall continue forever,
and his throne endure before me like the sun.(C)
Psalm 89:28
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28 Forever I will keep my steadfast love for him,
and my covenant with him will stand firm.(A)
Ephesians 4:17-18
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17 Now this I affirm and insist on in the Lord: you must no longer walk as the[a] gentiles walk, in the futility of their minds;(A) 18 they are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of their ignorance and hardness of heart.(B)
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- 4.17 Other ancient authorities add other
Romans 1:29-31
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29 They were filled with every kind of injustice, evil, covetousness, malice. Full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, craftiness, they are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters,[a] insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, rebellious toward parents,(A) 31 foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.(B)
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- 1.30 Or God-hated
Luke 1:72-75
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72 Thus he has shown the mercy promised to our ancestors
and has remembered his holy covenant,(A)
73 the oath that he swore to our ancestor Abraham,
to grant us 74 that we, being rescued from the hands of our enemies,
might serve him without fear,(B) 75 in holiness and righteousness
in his presence all our days.(C)
Psalm 89:39
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39 You have renounced the covenant with your servant;
you have defiled his crown in the dust.(A)
Psalm 5:8
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8 Lead me, O Lord, in your righteousness
because of my enemies;
make your way straight before me.(A)
2 Samuel 23:5
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5 Is not my house like this with God?
For he has made with me an everlasting covenant,
ordered in all things and secure.
Will he not cause to prosper
all my help and my desire?(A)
Deuteronomy 12:31
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31 You must not do the same for the Lord your God, because every abhorrent thing that the Lord hates they have done for their gods. They would even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.(A)
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Deuteronomy 9:27
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27 Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; pay no attention to the stubbornness of this people, their wickedness and their sin,
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Leviticus 26:40-45
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40 “But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their ancestors—their treachery against me and also their continued hostility to me,(A) 41 so that I in turn was hostile to them and brought them into the land of their enemies—if, then, their uncircumcised heart is humbled and they make amends for their iniquity,(B) 42 then will I remember my covenant with Jacob; I will remember also my covenant with Isaac and also my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.(C) 43 For the land shall be deserted by them and enjoy[a] its Sabbath years by lying desolate without them, while they shall make amends for their iniquity, because they dared to spurn my ordinances, and they abhorred my statutes.(D) 44 Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not spurn them or abhor them so as to destroy them utterly and break my covenant with them, for I am the Lord their God,(E) 45 but I will remember in their favor the covenant with their ancestors whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, to be their God: I am the Lord.”(F)
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- 26.43 Or make up for
Exodus 24:6-8
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6 Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half of the blood he dashed against the altar.(A) 7 Then he took the book of the covenant and read it in the hearing of the people, and they said, “All that the Lord has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient.”(B) 8 Moses took the blood and dashed it on the people, and said, “Here is the blood of the covenant that the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these words.”(C)
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Genesis 49:5-7
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5 Simeon and Levi are brothers;
weapons of violence are their swords.(A)
6 May I never come into their council;
may I not be joined to their company,
for in their anger they killed men,
and at their whim they hamstrung oxen.(B)
7 Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce,
and their wrath, for it is cruel!
I will divide them in Jacob
and scatter them in Israel.(C)
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