But I will not completely take my loving kindness from him, nor allow my faithfulness to fail.
Parallel translations
- KJV Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
- BSB But I will not withdraw My loving devotion from him, nor ever betray My faithfulness.
- NKJV Nevertheless My lovingkindness I will not utterly take from him, Nor allow My faithfulness to fail.
- NASB “But I will not withhold My favor from him, Nor deal falsely in My faithfulness.
- NLT But I will never stop loving him nor fail to keep my promise to him.
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- 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.
- 2 Sam 7:15but my loving kindness will not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before you.
- Lam 3:31–32For the Lord will not cast off forever.
- Heb 6:18that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.
- Jer 33:20–26“Yahweh says: ‘If you can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, so that there shall not be day and night in their season;
- 1 Sam 15:29Also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent.”
- 1 Kgs 11:36To his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a lamp always before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name there.
- 1 Kgs 11:13However I will not tear away all the kingdom; but I will give one tribe to your son, for David my servant’s sake, and for Jerusalem’s sake which I have chosen.”
- 1 Kgs 11:32(but he shall have one tribe, for my servant David’s sake and for Jerusalem’s sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel);
- 2 Sam 7:13He will build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
- 1 Cor 15:25For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.
- Ps 89:39You have renounced the covenant of your servant. You have defiled his crown in the dust.
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