Original collection
Covenant A solemn agreement made by God with His people, with the aim of securing a lasting relationship with them. The "old covenant" (or Old Testament) refers to the legal relationship God instituted with Israel at Sinai. This relationship was based upon the giving of the Law, including the Ten Commandments (Ex 34:27,28). God through Jeremiah prophesied a "new covenant," which was made through the blood of Jesus Christ (Jer 31:31-34; Heb 8:6-13). By establishing the new covenant, the old covenant was to make the first one obsolete.
Key KJV Scriptures:
Jeremiah 31:31-34; Luke 22:20; 2 Corinthians 3:6-14; Hebrews 8:6-13; 9:15-17
Key KJV Scriptures: Full Text
417 indexed verses · Showing 1–40. Read each passage in its chapter context.
Genesis 2:16 (KJV)
And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
Genesis 2:17 (KJV)
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
Genesis 8:16 (KJV)
Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.
Genesis 8:20 (KJV)
And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
Genesis 8:21 (KJV)
And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
Genesis 8:22 (KJV)
While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Genesis 9:1 (KJV)
And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
Genesis 9:2 (KJV)
And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
Genesis 9:3 (KJV)
Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
Genesis 9:4 (KJV)
But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
Genesis 9:5 (KJV)
And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.
Genesis 9:6 (KJV)
Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
Genesis 9:7 (KJV)
And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
Genesis 9:8 (KJV)
And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,
Genesis 9:9 (KJV)
And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;
Genesis 9:10 (KJV)
And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.
Genesis 9:11 (KJV)
And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
Genesis 9:12 (KJV)
And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
Genesis 9:13 (KJV)
I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
Genesis 9:14 (KJV)
And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:
Genesis 9:15 (KJV)
And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
Genesis 9:16 (KJV)
And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.
Genesis 9:17 (KJV)
And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.
Genesis 12:1 (KJV)
Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:
Genesis 12:2 (KJV)
And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
Genesis 12:3 (KJV)
And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
Genesis 15:1 (KJV)
After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.
Genesis 15:2 (KJV)
And Abram said, Lord GOD, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?
Genesis 15:3 (KJV)
And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.
Genesis 15:4 (KJV)
And, behold, the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.
Genesis 15:5 (KJV)
And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
Genesis 15:6 (KJV)
And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.
Genesis 15:7 (KJV)
And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.
Genesis 15:8 (KJV)
And he said, Lord GOD, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?
Genesis 15:9 (KJV)
And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon.
Genesis 15:10 (KJV)
And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not.
Genesis 15:11 (KJV)
And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away.
Genesis 15:12 (KJV)
And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.
Genesis 15:13 (KJV)
And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
Genesis 15:14 (KJV)
And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
Reference selections include Orville J. Nave’s public-domain topical index, via Brady Stephenson’s bible-data (CC BY 4.0). Titles and references have been normalized, duplicates merged, and references checked against the site’s KJV. This is a passage-finding aid; its classifications do not establish doctrine.