18 Bible Verses about God's Covenant With The Patriarchs

On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your offspring I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates,

the covenant that he made with Abraham, his sworn promise to Isaac,

But the LORD was gracious to them and had compassion on them, and he turned toward them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, nor has he cast them from his presence until now.

that I may make my covenant between me and you, and may multiply you greatly."

"Behold, my covenant is with you, and you shall be the father of a multitude of nations.

And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring after you.

This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your offspring after you: Every male among you shall be circumcised.

both he who is born in your house and he who is bought with your money, shall surely be circumcised. So shall my covenant be in your flesh an everlasting covenant.

And he gave him the covenant of circumcision. And so Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him on the eighth day, and Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.

"And because you listen to these rules and keep and do them, the LORD your God will keep with you the covenant and the steadfast love that he swore to your fathers.

God said, "No, but Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him.

But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you at this time next year."

which he confirmed to Jacob as a statute, to Israel as an everlasting covenant,

I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they lived as sojourners.

You found his heart faithful before you, and made with him the covenant to give to his offspring the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite. And you have kept your promise, for you are righteous.

You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, 'And in your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.'

They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises.

This is what I mean: the law, which came years afterward, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to make the promise void.