“But I will not withhold My favor from him, Nor deal falsely in 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.
- 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.
- 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).
Cross-references & the web
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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.
- 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;
- 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.
- 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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