Scripture Index
References to the Covenant of God in Scripture
Gen 17:7-9; Ex 6:7, 19:5, 29:45-46; Lev 26:12; Ps 48:14; Ps 95:7; Isa 51:16; 59:21; Jer 7:23; 11:4; 24:7; 30:22; 31:1 & 33; 32:38; Ezek 11:20; 14:11; 34:30-31; 36:26-28; 37:23 & 27; Hosea 2:23; Zech 2:11; 8:8; 13:9b; John 20:17; 2 Cor 6:16 & 18; Heb 8:10; 1 Pet 2:10; Rev 21:3 & 7.
Genesis 1:27
So God created humankind in his image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
Genesis 2:9
Out of the ground the LORD God made to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food, the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Genesis 2:17
“… but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die.”
Genesis 3:4
But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not die; …”
Genesis 5:3
When Adam had lived one hundred thirty years, he became the father of a son in his likeness, according to his image, and named him Seth.
Genesis 6:18
But I will establish my covenant with you; and you shall come into the ark, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives with you.
Genesis 15:6
And he believed the LORD; and the LORD reckoned it to him as righteousness.
Genesis 22:13
And Abraham looked up and saw a ram, caught in a thicket by its horns. Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son.
Genesis 50:20
Even though you intended to do harm to me, God intended it for good, in order to preserve a numerous people, as he is doing today.
Exodus 3:14
God said to Moses, “I am who I am.” He said further, “Thus you shall say to the Israelites, ‘I am has sent me to you’.”
Chapter 6, Chapter 7, Appendix.
Exodus 4:21
And the LORD said to Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders that I have put in your power; but I will harden his heart, so that he will not let the people go. …”
Exodus 7:3
But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and I will multiply my signs and wonders in the land of Egypt.
Exodus 14:4
I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will pursue them, so that I will gain glory for myself over Pharaoh and all his army; and the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD. And they did so.
Exodus 14:17
Then I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they will go in after them; and so I will gain glory for myself over Pharaoh and all his army, his chariots, and his chariot drivers.
Exodus 29:45
I will dwell among the Israelites, and I will be their God.
Exodus 33:5
For the LORD had said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘You are a stiff-necked people; if for a single moment I should go up among you, I would consume you. So now take off your ornaments, and I will decide what to do to you.’”
Exodus 34:6-7
The LORD passed before him, and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for the thousandth generation, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, yet by no means clearing the guilty, but visiting the iniquity of the parents upon the children and the children’s children, to the third and the fourth generation.”
Leviticus 4:1-2
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to the people of Israel, saying: When anyone sins unintentionally in any of the LORD’s commandments about things not to be done, and does any one of them:
Leviticus 6:4-5
when you have sinned and realize your guilt, and would restore what you took by robbery or by fraud or the deposit that was committed to you, or the lost thing that you found, or anything else about which you have sworn falsely, you shall repay the principal amount and shall add one-fifth to it. You shall pay it to its owner when you realize your guilt.
Leviticus 10:10
You are to distinguish between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean;
Leviticus 24:16
One who blasphemes the name of the LORD shall be put to death; the whole congregation shall stone the blasphemer. Aliens as well as citizens, when they blaspheme the Name, shall be put to death.
Numbers 14:18
The LORD is slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the parents upon the children to the third and the fourth generation
Numbers 15:22
But if you unintentionally fail to observe all these commandments that the LORD has spoken to Moses—
Numbers 15:30-31
But whoever acts high-handedly, whether a native or an alien, affronts the LORD, and shall be cut off from among the people. Because of having despised the word of the LORD and broken his commandment, such a person shall be utterly cut off and bear the guilt.
Numbers 15:36
The whole congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him to death, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Numbers 35:33
You shall not pollute the land in which you live; for blood pollutes the land, and no expiation can be made for the land, for the blood that is shed in it, except by the blood of the one who shed it.
Deuteronomy 21:23
his corpse must not remain all night upon the tree; you shall bury him that same day, for anyone hung on a tree is under God’s curse. You must not defile the land that the LORD your God is giving you for possession.
Deuteronomy 24:16
Parents shall not be put to death for their children, nor shall children be put to death for their parents; only for their own crimes may persons be put to death.
Deuteronomy 31:6
“… Be strong and bold; have no fear or dread of them, because it is the LORD your God who goes with you; he will not fail you or forsake you.”
Deuteronomy 31:8
“… It is the LORD who goes before you. He will be with you; he will not fail you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed.”
Deuteronomy 32:9-10
the LORD’s own portion was his people, Jacob his allotted share. He sustained him in a desert land, in a howling wilderness waste; he shielded him, cared for him, guarded him as the apple of his eye.
1 Kings 6:13
“I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.”
2 Chronicles 20:7
Did you not, O our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and give it forever to the descendants of your friend Abraham?
Nehemiah 9:31
Nevertheless, in your great mercies you did not make an end of them or forsake them, for you are a gracious and merciful God.
Job 2:6
The LORD said to Satan, “Very well, he is in your power; only spare his life.”
Job 42:10
And the LORD restored the fortunes of Job when he had prayed for his friends; and the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.
Psalm 1:5-6
Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous; for the LORD watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.
Psalm 18:11
He made darkness his covering around him, his canopy thick clouds dark with water.
Psalm 22:1
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, from the words of my groaning?
Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Appendix.
Psalm 22:24
For he did not despise or abhor the affliction of the afflicted; he did not hide his face from me, but heard when I cried to him.
Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Appendix.
Psalm 22:28
For dominion belongs to the LORD, and he rules over the nations.
Psalm 22:29
To him, indeed, shall all who sleep in the earth bow down; before him shall bow all who go down to the dust, and I shall live for him.
Psalm 22:30-31
Posterity will serve him; future generations will be told about the Lord, and proclaim his deliverance to a people yet unborn, saying that he has done it.
Psalm 24:1
The earth is the LORD’s and all that is in it, the world, and those who live in it;
Psalm 27:1
The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
Psalm 32:5
Then I acknowledged my sin to you, and I did not hide my iniquity; I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the LORD,” and you forgave the guilt of my sin. Selah
Chapter 4 (from Expression 3), Chapter 4 (from Expression 4).
Psalm 34:14
Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.
Chapter 4 (from Expression 2), Chapter 4 (from Expression 9).
Psalm 40:11-12
Do not, O LORD, withhold your mercy from me; let your steadfast love and your faithfulness keep me safe forever. For evils have encompassed me without number; my iniquities have overtaken me, until I cannot see; they are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart fails me.
Psalm 49:7
Truly, no ransom avails for one’s life, there is no price one can give to God for it.
Psalm 49:15
But God will ransom my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me. Selah
Psalm 50:23
Those who bring thanksgiving as their sacrifice honour me; to those who go the right way I will show the salvation of God.
Psalm 74:1
O God, why do you cast us off forever? Why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?
Psalm 89:33-34
but I will not remove from him my steadfast love, or be false to my faithfulness. I will not violate my covenant, or alter the word that went forth from my lips.
Psalm 103:8-10
The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love. He will not always accuse, nor will he keep his anger forever. He does not deal with us according to our sins, nor repay us according to our iniquities.
Psalm 106:45
For their sake he remembered his covenant, and showed compassion according to the abundance of his steadfast love.
Psalm 143:2
Do not enter into judgment with your servant, for no one living is righteous before you.
Proverbs 1:18
yet they lie in wait—to kill themselves! and set an ambush—for their own lives!
Proverbs 3:18
She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her; those who hold her fast are called happy.
Proverbs 10:16
The wage of the righteous leads to life, the gain of the wicked to sin.
Proverbs 11:30
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, but violence takes lives away.
Proverbs 13:12
Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.
Proverbs 15:4
A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it breaks the spirit.
Proverbs 16:6
By loyalty and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for, and by the fear of the LORD one avoids evil.
Proverbs 19:11
Those with good sense are slow to anger, and it is their glory to overlook an offence.
Proverbs 19:19
A violent tempered person will pay the penalty; if you effect a rescue, you will only have to do it again.
Ecclesiastes 3:17
I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked, for he has appointed a time for every matter, and for every work.
Ecclesiastes 7:20
Surely there is no one on earth so righteous as to do good without ever sinning.
Isaiah 1:11
What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? says the LORD; I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed beasts; I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of goats.
Isaiah 24:5
The earth lies polluted under its inhabitants; for they have transgressed laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant.
Isaiah 41:8
But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham, my friend;
Isaiah 41:17
When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue is parched with thirst, I the LORD will answer them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
Isaiah 42:16
I will lead the blind by a road they do not know, by paths they have not known I will guide them. I will turn the darkness before them into light, the rough places into level ground. These are the things I will do, and I will not forsake them.
Isaiah 43:25
I, I am He who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins.
Isaiah 45:21-22
Declare and present your case; let them take counsel together! Who told this long ago? Who declared it of old? Was it not I, the LORD? There is no other god besides me, a righteous God and a Saviour; there is no one besides me.
Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other.
Isaiah 53:4
Surely he has borne our infirmities and carried our diseases; yet we accounted him stricken, struck down by God, and afflicted.
Isaiah 53:5
But he was wounded for our transgressions, crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the punishment that made us whole, and by his bruises we are healed.
Chapter 2, Chapter 5, Chapter 6.
Isaiah 53:6
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have all turned to our own way, and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Isaiah 53:8
By a perversion of justice he was taken away. Who could have imagined his future? For he was cut off from the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people.
Isaiah 53:10
Yet it was the will of the LORD to crush him with pain. When you make his life an offering for sin, he shall see his offspring, and shall prolong his days; through him the will of the LORD shall prosper.
Jeremiah 5:1
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