18 Bible Verses about God's Covenant With The Patriarchs

On that day Jehovah made a covenant with Abram. He said: To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates,

He made this covenant with Abraham and gave his oath to Isaac.

But Jehovah was kind to them and had pity on them, caring for them, because of his agreement with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He would not put them to destruction or send them away from his presence until now.

I will establish my covenant between us. I will greatly increase your numbers.

This is my covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations.

I will establish my covenant as a long lasting covenant between us. It will be for your descendants after you, for the generations to come. I will be your God and the God of your descendants after you.

This is my covenant with you and your descendants after you, the covenant you are to keep: Every male among you shall be circumcised.

Whether born in your household or bought with your money, they must be circumcised. My covenant in your flesh is to be a long lasting covenant.

He gave him the covenant of circumcision. Abraham became the father of Isaac and circumcised him the eighth day. Isaac became father to Jacob and Jacob fathered the twelve family heads.

If you listen to these rules and faithfully obey them, Jehovah your God will keep his covenant with you and be merciful to you, as he swore to your fathers.

God replied: Yes, but your wife Sarah will bear you a son! You will call him Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as a long lasting covenant for his descendants after him.

But my covenant I will establish with Isaac. Sarah will bear him to you by this time next year.

He confirmed the same to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant.

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

You saw that his heart was true to you, and made an agreement with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Jebusite and the Girgashite, even to give it to his seed, and you have done what you said; for righteousness is yours.

You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant that God made with our fathers. He said to Abraham: 'All the families of the earth will be blessed in your seed.'

They are Israelites and the adoption belongs to them. They have the glory of the covenants. The law was given to them along with the service and promises.

Now this I say: the Law, which came four hundred and thirty years later, does not invalidate a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to nullify the promise.