I will not violate My covenant or alter the utterance of My lips.
Parallel translations
- WEB I will not break my covenant, nor alter what my lips have uttered.
- KJV My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
- NKJV My covenant I will not break, Nor alter the word that has gone out of My lips.
- NASB “I will not violate My covenant, Nor will I alter the utterance of My lips.
- NLT No, I will not break my covenant; I will not take back a single word I said.
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Quick answer
God will not break His covenant nor change the word He has spoken.
Overview
God binds Himself to the integrity of His own promise; what His lips uttered stands. The covenant's security rests on God's unchanging character. This guarantees the certainty of every gospel promise fulfilled in the immutable Christ (Heb. 6:17-18).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 8
- Num 23:19God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?
- Matt 24:35Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.
- Jas 1:17Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom there is no change or shifting shadow.
- Mal 3:6“Because I, the LORD, do not change, you descendants of Jacob have not been destroyed.
- Rom 11:29For God’s gifts and His call are irrevocable.
- Jer 14:21For the sake of Your name do not despise us; do not disgrace Your glorious throne. Remember Your covenant with us; do not break it.
- Lev 26:44Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject or despise them so as to destroy them and break My covenant with them; for I am the LORD their God.
- Jer 33:20“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,
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