Which other scriptures emphasize God's covenant-keeping nature and steadfast love? Key Verse—2 Chronicles 6:14 “LORD God of Israel, there is no God like You in heaven or on earth, keeping Your covenant of loving devotion with Your servants who walk before You with all their hearts.” Echoes in the Law of Moses - Exodus 34:6-7—“The LORD, the LORD God, compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness, maintaining loving devotion to a thousand generations…” - Deuteronomy 7:9—“Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps His covenant of loving devotion for a thousand generations of those who love Him and keep His commandments.” - Deuteronomy 7:12—“If you listen to these ordinances and carefully keep them, the LORD your God will keep with you the covenant of loving devotion that He swore to your fathers.” Echoes in the Historical Books - 1 Kings 8:23—Solomon’s parallel prayer in Jerusalem’s temple dedication: “O LORD, God of Israel… You who keep Your covenant of loving devotion with Your servants who walk before You with all their hearts.” - Nehemiah 9:32—“Now therefore, our God, the great, mighty, and awesome God, who keeps His covenant of loving devotion, do not overlook the hardship that has come upon us…” Echoes in the Psalms - Psalm 89:1-2—“I will sing of the loving devotion of the LORD forever… Your faithfulness is established in the heavens.” - Psalm 89:34—“I will not violate My covenant or alter the utterance of My lips.” - Psalm 100:5—“For the LORD is good; His loving devotion endures forever, His faithfulness continues to all generations.” - Psalm 103:17-18—“But from everlasting to everlasting the loving devotion of the LORD is with those who fear Him… to those who keep His covenant.” - Psalm 105:8-10—“He remembers His covenant forever… the covenant He made with Abraham, and the oath He swore to Isaac.” - Psalm 111:5—“He provides food for those who fear Him; He remembers His covenant forever.” Echoes in the Prophets - Isaiah 54:10—“Though the mountains may be removed and the hills may be shaken, My loving devotion will not depart from you, and My covenant of peace will not be broken,” says the LORD. - Jeremiah 31:31-33—Promise of the new covenant written on the heart. - Jeremiah 32:40—“I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never stop doing good to them, and I will put My fear in their hearts so that they will never turn away from Me.” - Daniel 9:4—Daniel’s prayer: “O Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant of loving devotion with those who love Him and keep His commandments.” Fulfillment and Assurance in the New Testament - Luke 1:72-73—Jesus’ coming “to show mercy to our fathers and to remember His holy covenant, the oath He swore to our father Abraham.” - 2 Corinthians 1:20—“For all the promises of God are ‘Yes’ in Christ.” - Hebrews 6:17-18—God’s oath and promise are “two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie.” - Hebrews 10:23—“Let us hold resolutely to the hope we confess, for He who promised is faithful.” - 2 Timothy 2:13—“If we are faithless, He remains faithful, for He cannot deny Himself.” Across every era and genre of Scripture, the Lord’s covenant-keeping character shines with the same unwavering, steadfast love first celebrated by Solomon—anchoring faith then, now, and forever. |
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