A selection of verses showing what the Bible says about the covenant God makes with his people.
God makes a covenant with Abraham the father of the Israelites:
God says the covenant also applies to Abraham's descendants; for example, Isaac his son:
God keeps his side of the bargain, even though the Israelites regularly forget him; as is the case when they are slaves in Egypt:
After delivering them from slavery in Egypt, God makes a covenant with Israel at Sinai:
7 Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and set before them all these words which the LORD commanded him. 8 All the people answered together, and said, “All that the LORD has spoken we will do.”
Moses reported the words of the people to the LORD.
But despite the fact that they don’t keep their word, God, in His mercy, promises to make a new covenant with them:
“that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel,
and with the house of Judah:
32 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt;
which covenant of mine they broke,
although I was a husband to them,” says the LORD.
33 “But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,”
says the LORD:
“I will put my law in their inward parts,
and I will write it in their heart.
I will be their God,
and they shall be my people.
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