Psalms 25:10
25:10 The Lord always proves faithful and reliable
to those who follow the demands of his covenant.
Psalms 132:12
132:12 If your sons keep my covenant
and the rules I teach them,
their sons will also sit on your throne forever.”
Genesis 17:9-10
17:9 Then God said to Abraham, “As for you, you must keep the covenantal requirement I am imposing on you and your descendants after you throughout their generations.
17:10 This is my requirement that you and your descendants after you must keep: Every male among you must be circumcised.
Exodus 19:5
19:5 And now, if you will diligently listen to me
and keep
my covenant, then you will be my
special possession
out of all the nations, for all the earth is mine,
Exodus 24:8
24:8 So Moses took the blood and splashed it on
the people and said, “This is the blood of the covenant
that the
Lord has made with you in accordance with all these words.”
Deuteronomy 7:9
7:9 So realize that the
Lord your God is the true God,
the faithful God who keeps covenant faithfully
with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,
Deuteronomy 7:2
7:2 and he
delivers them over to you and you attack them, you must utterly annihilate
them. Make no treaty
with them and show them no mercy!
Deuteronomy 34:1
The Death of Moses
34:1 Then Moses ascended from the deserts of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the summit of Pisgah, which is opposite Jericho. The Lord showed him the whole land – Gilead to Dan,
Hebrews 8:6-13
8:6 But
now Jesus
has obtained a superior ministry, since
the covenant that he mediates is also better and is enacted
on better promises.
8:7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, no one would have looked for a second one.
8:8 But showing its fault, God says to them,
“Look, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will complete a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.
8:9 “It will not be like the covenant that I made with their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they did not continue in my covenant and I had no regard for them, says the Lord.
8:10 “For this is the covenant that I will establish with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord. I will put my laws in their minds and I will inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God and they will be my people.
8:11 “And there will be no need at all for each one to teach his countryman or each one to teach his brother saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ since they will all know me, from the least to the greatest.
8:12 “For I will be merciful toward their evil deeds, and their sins I will remember no longer.”
8:13 When he speaks of a new covenant, he makes the first obsolete. Now what is growing obsolete and aging is about to disappear.