But I will not withdraw My loving devotion from him, nor ever betray My faithfulness.
Parallel translations
- WEB But I will not completely take my loving kindness from him, nor allow my faithfulness to fail.
- KJV Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
- 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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Quick answer
Despite discipline, God will never wholly withdraw His steadfast love or let His faithfulness fail.
Overview
Here is the pivot of the covenant: God's chesed and faithfulness endure even through chastening. Discipline is real, but it never overturns God's committed love. This unbreakable faithfulness is finally secured in Christ, from whose love nothing can separate us (Rom. 8:38-39).
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- Isa 54:8–10In a surge of anger I hid My face from you for a moment, but with everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you,” says the LORD your Redeemer.
- 2 Sam 7:15But My loving devotion will never be removed from him as I removed it from Saul, whom I moved out of your way.
- Lam 3:31–32For the Lord will not cast us off forever.
- Jer 33:20–26“This is what the LORD says: If you can break My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night, so that day and night cease to occupy their appointed time,
- Heb 6:18Thus by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope set before us may be strongly encouraged.
- 1 Sam 15:29Moreover, the Glory of Israel does not lie or change His mind, for He is not a man, that He should change His mind.”
- 1 Kgs 11:36I will give one tribe to his son, so that My servant David will always have a lamp before Me in Jerusalem, the city where I chose to put My Name.
- 1 Kgs 11:13Yet I will not tear the whole kingdom away from him. I will give one tribe to your son for the sake of My servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, which I have chosen.”
- 1 Kgs 11:32But one tribe will remain for the sake of My servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city 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 with Your servant and sullied his crown in the dust.
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