Loyalty

God’s loyalty to his people

God’s covenant loyalty

Deuteronomy 7:9 ESV

Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,

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God’s faithfulness to his promises

Hebrews 10:23 ESV

Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.

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Loyalty to God

The loyalty of God’s people

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Examples of those loyal to God

Moses; Caleb; Joshua and his family; Job; Hezekiah; Peter and John; Paul

Failure to show loyalty to God

Hosea 6:4 ESV

What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? Your love is like a morning cloud, like the dew that goes early away.

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Divided loyalties

2 Kings 17:33 ESV

So they feared the Lord but also served their own gods, after the manner of the nations from among whom they had been carried away.

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Loyalty in human relationships

Loyalty and covenant

1 Samuel 20:8 ESV

Therefore deal kindly with your servant, for you have brought your servant into a covenant of the Lord with you. But if there is guilt in me, kill me yourself, for why should you bring me to your father?”

The loyalty of friends

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Loyalty within the family

Ruth 1:16–17 ESV

But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. May the Lord do so to me and more also if anything but death parts me from you.”

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Loyalty to those in authority

Romans 13:1 ESV

Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.

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Examples of loyalty to rulers

2 Samuel 15:21 ESV

But Ittai answered the king, “As the Lord lives, and as my lord the king lives, wherever my lord the king shall be, whether for death or for life, there also will your servant be.”

See also David’s loyalty to Saul; Abner’s loyalty to Saul’s family; the loyalty of Judah to David’s house; the men of Zebulun’s loyalty to David

The loyalty of believers

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See also Timothy; the household of Stephanas; Epaphras; Tychicus; Onesimus