Biblical Teaching on Covenant 串珠讀經 聖約

God regulates His people through the covenant, stipulating the requirements, conditions, rewards, and punishments for the parties involved.

As a Christion, we are engaged in the covenent with God through Jesus in the ceremories of Baptizm and Eucharist. It is engagement of life and death.

We have known that Jesus is our guarantee to accomplish the covenantal responsibilities of our side and that God is always faithful. Therefore, the accomplishment of New Covenant is ensured. That is what our faith relys on.

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Genesis 6:18
"But I will establish My covenant with you; and you shall enter the ark--you and your sons and your wife, and your sons' wives with you.

Genesis 9:1
[ Covenant of the Rainbow ] And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, " Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.

Genesis 9:9
"Now behold, I Myself do establish My covenant with you, and with your descendants after you;

Genesis 9:11
"I establish My covenant with you; and all flesh shall never again be cut off by the water of the flood, neither shall there again be a flood to destroy the earth."

Genesis 9:12
God said, "This is the sign of the covenant which I am making between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all successive generations;

Genesis 9:13
I set My bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between Me and the earth.

Genesis 9:15
and I will remember My covenant, which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and never again shall the water become a flood to destroy all flesh.

Genesis 9:16
"When the bow is in the cloud, then I will look upon it, to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth."

Genesis 9:17
And God said to Noah, "This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is on the earth."

Genesis 15:18
On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying," To your descendants I have given this land, From the river of Egypt as far as the great river, the river Euphrates:

Genesis 17:1
[ Abraham and the Covenant of Circumcision ] Now when Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, "I am God Almighty; Walk before Me, and be blameless.

Genesis 17:2
"I will establish My covenant between Me and you, And I will multiply you exceedingly."

Genesis 17:4
"As for Me, behold, My covenant is with you, And you will be the father of a multitude of nations.

Genesis 17:7
"I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your descendants after you.

Genesis 17:9
God said further to Abraham, "Now as for you, you shall keep My covenant, you and your descendants after you throughout their generations.

Genesis 17:10
" This is My covenant, which you shall keep, between Me and you and your descendants after you: every male among you shall be circumcised.

Genesis 17:11
"And you shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin, and it shall be the sign of the covenant between Me and you.

Genesis 17:13
"A servant who is born in your house or who is bought with your money shall surely be circumcised; thus shall My covenant be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.

Genesis 17:14
"But an uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that person shall be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant."