God’s Covenants with Man

Verses highlighting the covenants made with figures like Noah, Abraham, and through Jesus

Noahic Covenant

  • Genesis 6:18
    "But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you."

  • Genesis 9:8-9
    "Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him: 'I now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you.'"

  • Genesis 9:13-15
    "I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth."

Abrahamic Covenant

  • Genesis 15:18
    "On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram and said, 'To your descendants I give this land.'"

  • Genesis 17:2-4
    "Then I will make my covenant between me and you and will greatly increase your numbers. Abram fell facedown, and God said to him, 'As for me, this is my covenant with you.'"

  • Genesis 17:7
    "I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come."

  • Genesis 17:10-11
    "This is my covenant with you and your descendants after you, the covenant you are to keep: Every male among you shall be circumcised."

Mosaic Covenant

  • Exodus 19:5
    "Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession."

  • Deuteronomy 4:13
    "He declared to you his covenant, the Ten Commandments, which he commanded you to follow, and then wrote them on two stone tablets."

  • Deuteronomy 7:9
    "Know therefore that the LORD your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commandments."

Davidic Covenant

  • Psalm 89:3-4
    "You said, 'I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David my servant, "I will establish your line forever."'"

  • 2 Samuel 7:12-16

    "When your days are over and you rest with your ancestors, I will raise up your offspring to succeed you, your own flesh and blood, and I will establish his kingdom. He is the one who will build a house for my Name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. I will be his father, and he will be my son. When he does wrong, I will punish him with a rod wielded by men, with floggings inflicted by human hands. But my love will never be taken away from him, as I took it away from Saul, whom I removed from before you. Your house and your kingdom will endure forever before me; your throne will be established forever."

New Covenant

  • Jeremiah 31:31-33
    "The days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah." It will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they broke my covenant, though I was a husband to[a] them,[b]” declares the Lord. “This is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel after that time,” declares the Lord. “I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

  • Luke 22:20
    "In the same way, after the supper he took the cup, saying, 'This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.'"

  • Hebrews 8:6-7
    "But in fact the ministry Jesus has received is as superior to theirs as the covenant of which he is mediator is superior to the old one, since the new covenant is established on better promises."

  • Hebrews 8:10
    "This is the covenant I will establish with the people of Israel after that time, declares the Lord. I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts."

  • Hebrews 9:15
    "For this reason Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance."

Additional Verses Regarding God’s Covenant

  • Deuteronomy 29:12-13
    "You are standing here in order to enter into a covenant with the LORD your God, a covenant the LORD is making with you this day and sealing with an oath, to confirm you this day as his people."

  • Exodus 6:4-5
    "I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, where they resided as foreigners. Moreover, I have heard the groaning of the Israelites."

  • Exodus 24:7-8
    "Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it to the people. They responded, 'We will do everything the LORD has said; we will obey.'"

  • Isaiah 42:6
    "I, the LORD, have called you in righteousness; I will take hold of your hand. I will keep you and will make you to be a covenant for the people and a light for the Gentiles."

  • Isaiah 54:10
    "'Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed,' says the LORD."

  • Jeremiah 32:40
    "I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never stop doing good to them, and I will inspire them to fear me."

  • Nehemiah 9:32
    "Now therefore, our God, the great God, mighty and awesome, who keeps his covenant of love, do not let all this hardship seem trifling in your eyes."

  • Psalm 105:8-10
    "He remembers His covenant forever, the promise He made, for a thousand generations, the covenant He made with Abraham, the oath he swore to Isaac. He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as an everlasting covenant.”

  • Romans 11:27
    "And this is my covenant with them when I take away their sins."

  • Zechariah 9:11
    "As for you, because of the blood of my covenant with you, I will free your prisoners from the waterless pit."