Covenant breakers

The importance of covenants

The covenant between God and his people

Genesis 9:16 ESV

When the bow is in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.”

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God will remain faithful to his covenant

Judges 2:1 ESV

Now the angel of the Lord went up from Gilgal to Bochim. And he said, “I brought you up from Egypt and brought you into the land that I swore to give to your fathers. I said, ‘I will never break my covenant with you,

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Covenants between people

Covenants made in the sight of God were permanently binding

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Condemnation of those who break covenants

Hosea 6:7 ESV

But like Adam they transgressed the covenant; there they dealt faithlessly with me.

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Examples of covenants between people

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Examples of breaking the covenant with God

Coveting the possessions of others

Ecclesiastes 4:4 ESV

Then I saw that all toil and all skill in work come from a man’s envy of his neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

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Stealing

Exodus 20:15 ESV

“You shall not steal.

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Using dishonest weights or scales

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Moving boundary stones

Proverbs 23:10 ESV

Do not move an ancient landmark or enter the fields of the fatherless,

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Extortion

Habakkuk 2:6 ESV

Shall not all these take up their taunt against him, with scoffing and riddles for him, and say, “Woe to him who heaps up what is not his own— for how long?— and loads himself with pledges!”

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Breach of trust

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Not repaying loans

Psalm 37:21 ESV

The wicked borrows but does not pay back, but the righteous is generous and gives;

Not paying fair wages

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Failing to care for aliens

Aliens living in Israel were regarded as having privileged status amongst Gentiles, and were treated as covenant people in some respects:

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