Quotes About Covenant

The highest compact we can make with our fellow, is, — 'Let there be truth between us two forevermore.'

What the Voortrekkers failed to realize in their moment of victory was that they had offered the covenant to God, not He to them.

Nevertheless, in obedience to the covenant as they understood it, they had won a signal victory, which confirmed their belief that He had accepted their offer and had personally intervened on their behalf. No

The God who makes the promise keeps the promise.

A group is as healthy as its 'social contract' is clear; a congregation as faithful as its covenant is mutually understood; a pastor as effective as the pastor's and people's commitment to trust and integrity is honored, guarded, and fulfilled.

Marriage is mutual faithful friendship.

A covenant is an agreement between God and man, an accord whose terms are set by God.

Marriage is a partnership between one man and one woman... Nothing could be clearer in the Bible as to what constitutes a marriage in God's sight.

When men enter into the state of marriage, they stand nearest to God.

Entreat me not to leave you Or to return from following you; For where you go I will go, And where you lodge I will lodge; Your people shall be my people, And your God my God; Where you die I will die, And there will I be buried. May the Lord do so to me And more also If even death parts me from you. --Ruth 1:16

King David knew that the way out of depression was to exchange the spirit of heaviness for a garment of praise, because he was a covenant child of God.

Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD deal with me, be it ever so severely, if anything but death separates you and me." ~ Ruth 1: 16, 17

Biblical teaching called for cohesive families whose happiness was based on the bonding of one female and one male in a durable relationship of covenant fidelity in love, committed to protect the life and well-being of their offspring. Fatherless children were the strongest argument against hedonic sexual experimentation.

The ancient covenant is in pieces; man knows at last that he is alone in the universe's unfeeling immensity, out of which he emerged only by chance. His destiny is nowhere spelled out, nor is his duty. The kingdom above or the darkness below: it is for him to choose.

Kada sam prihvatao neki zadatak, nisam to radio sa rešenoš?u koja je svojstvena obi?nim ljudima. Za mene je to bio stari zavet, pitanje života i smrti.

If we truly understood God's plan for the union between a man and a woman, we'd fight harder. People give up on the husband or wife God has chosen for them too easily. Anyone can walk away, the courage comes in staying and fighting. And if God is in the mix, staying is worth it. Like I said, we just have to understand marriage.

When God made His covenant with Abraham, He promised that He would "make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky." Jesus is the needle who sews the children of God who are not direct descendants of Abraham into that nighttime sky.

Attempted good marriage with premeditation.

El Dios que actúa en el antiguo testamento es el mismo Dios que se hace carne en el Nuevo, con el fin de consumar en el mundo una obra de salvación definitiva.

2Then Shecaniah son of Jehiel, a descendant of Elam, said to Ezra, "We have been unfaithful to our God, for we have married these pagan women of the land. But in spite of this there is hope for Israel. 3Let us now make a covenant with our God to divorce our pagan wives and to send them away with their children. We will follow the advice given by you and by the others who respect the commands of our God. Let it be done according to the Law of God.

After making the covenant with Abraham to bless him and his descendants by grace through faith, God provided a covenant sign both to mark those who were recipients of his promise and to signify his pledge to provide for those who had faith in him. It is important to remember that the sign was given after the covenant was made; it was neither a precondition of the covenant nor a means of conferring it. Faith was and is the sole condition of knowing the blessings of God's covenant.

Because God's promises extended to Abraham's house, he was to devote all that he had to the Lord by use of the covenant sign. This meant that all who were part of Abraham's household in that ancient society were to be devoted to God by circumcision-sons, dependent relatives, and servants (Gen. 17:23; cf. Ex. 12:43-48).

Circumcision was God's way of marking his people with a visible pledge to honor his covenant for those who expressed faith in him.

circumcision was God's pledge to provide all the blessings of his covenant when the condition of faith was met in his people. Our faith does not actuate God's covenant or cause it to be extended to us-he chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world (Eph. 1:4)-but our faith does claim (and live out) the covenant blessings that God provides by his grace and pledges with his seal.