and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters will no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
Parallel translations
- KJV And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
- BSB I will remember My covenant between Me and you and every living creature of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life.
- NKJV and I will remember My covenant which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh.
- NASB and I will remember My covenant, which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and never again shall the water become a flood to destroy all flesh.
- NLT and I will remember my covenant with you and with all living creatures. Never again will the floodwaters destroy all life.
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Quick answer
God promises to remember His covenant so that floodwaters will never again destroy all flesh. His remembering guarantees His people's security.
Overview
When God says He will remember His covenant, it means He will act faithfully on His promise, not that He had forgotten. The guarantee rests on God's character, not human worthiness. This divine remembering anticipates the covenant faithfulness displayed when God remembers His promise of salvation and sends Christ to save His people.
Cross-references & the web
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- Deut 7:9Know therefore that Yahweh your God himself is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with them who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,
- Ezek 16:60Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish to you an everlasting covenant.
- Isa 54:8–10In overflowing wrath I hid my face from you for a moment; but with everlasting loving kindness I will have mercy on you,” says Yahweh your Redeemer.
- Exod 28:12You shall put the two stones on the shoulder straps of the ephod, to be stones of memorial for the children of Israel: and Aaron shall bear their names before Yahweh on his two shoulders for a memorial.
- Lev 26:42–45then I will remember my covenant with Jacob; and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham; and I will remember the land.
- 1 Kgs 8:23and he said, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven above, or on earth beneath; who keeps covenant and loving kindness with your servants, who walk before you with all their heart;
- Ps 106:45He remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
- Luke 1:72to show mercy towards our fathers, to remember his holy covenant,
- Jer 14:21Do not abhor us, for your name’s sake. Do not disgrace the throne of your glory. Remember, and don’t break your covenant with us.
- Neh 9:32Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness, don’t let all the travail seem little before you, that has come on us, on our kings, on our princes, on our priests, on our prophets, on our fathers, and on all your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria to this day.
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