My covenant I will not break, Nor alter the word that has gone out 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.
- BSB I will not violate My covenant or alter the utterance 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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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, nor the son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?
- Matt 24:35Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
- Jas 1:17Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.
- Mal 3:6“For I, Yahweh, don’t change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed.
- Rom 11:29For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.
- 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.
- Lev 26:44Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them; for I am Yahweh their God;
- Jer 33:20“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;
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