Covenant, The

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• Isaiah 42:6 OT

  “I, Yahweh, have called you in righteousness. I will hold your hand. I will keep you, and make you a covenant for the people, as a light for the nations,

• Isaiah 49:8 OT

  Yahweh says, “I have answered you in an acceptable time. I have helped you in a day of salvation. I will preserve you and give you for a covenant of the people, to raise up the land, to make them inherit the desolate heritage,

• Hebrews 8:6 NT

  But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which on better promises has been given as law.

• Hebrews 9:15 NT

  For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, that those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal…

• Hebrews 12:24 NT

  to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.

• Malachi 3:1 OT

  “Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold, he comes!” says Yahweh of Armies.

• Genesis 15:7-18 OT

  He said to Abram, “I am Yahweh who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit it.” He said, “Lord Yahweh, how will I know that I will inherit it?” He said to him, “Bring me a heifer three years old, a female…

• Genesis 17:2-14 OT

  I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly.” Abram fell on his face. God talked with him, saying, “As for me, behold, my covenant is with you. You will be the father of a multitude of nations. Your name…

• Luke 1:72-75 NT

  to show mercy toward our fathers, to remember his holy covenant, the oath which he swore to Abraham our father, to grant to us that we, being delivered out of the hand of our enemies, should serve him without fear, in holiness and…

• Acts 3:25 NT

  You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘All the families of the earth will be blessed through your offspring.’

• Galatians 3:16 NT

  Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his offspring. He doesn’t say, “To descendants”, as of many, but as of one, “To your offspring”, which is Christ.

• Genesis 17:19 OT

  God said, “No, but Sarah, your wife, will bear you a son. You shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him.

• Genesis 17:21 OT

  But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time next year.”

• Genesis 26:3 OT

  Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For I will give to you, and to your offspring, all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.

• Genesis 26:4 OT

  I will multiply your offspring as the stars of the sky, and will give all these lands to your offspring. In your offspring all the nations of the earth will be blessed,

• Genesis 28:13 OT

  Behold, Yahweh stood above it, and said, “I am Yahweh, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. I will give the land you lie on to you and to your offspring.

• Genesis 28:14 OT

  Your offspring will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your offspring, all the families of the earth will be blessed.

• 1 Chronicles 16:16 OT

  the covenant which he made with Abraham, his oath to Isaac.

• 1 Chronicles 16:17 OT

  He confirmed it to Jacob for a statute, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant,

• Exodus 6:4 OT

  I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their travels, in which they lived as aliens.

• 2 Samuel 23:5 OT

  Isn’t my house so with God? Yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure, for it is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he doesn’t make it grow.

• Psalms 89:3 OT

  “I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David, my servant,

• Psalms 89:4 OT

  ‘I will establish your offspring forever, and build up your throne to all generations.’ ”

• Jeremiah 31:31-33 OT

  “Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring…