Contracts

Brothers, speaking of human terms, though it is only a man’s covenant, yet when it has been confirmed, no one makes it void, or adds to it.

But let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes’ and your ‘No’ be ‘No.’ Whatever is more than these is of the evil one.

Don’t you be one of those who strike hands, of those who are collateral for debts.

When a man vows a vow to Yahweh, or swears an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word. He shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.

In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath;

“If anyone sins, and commits a trespass against Yahweh, and deals falsely with his neighbor in a matter of deposit, or of bargain, or of robbery, or has oppressed his neighbor,

There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him: — read the full passage →

Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them, to let them live. The princes of the congregation swore to them.

For men indeed swear by a greater one, and in every dispute of theirs the oath is final for confirmation.

Now come, let us make a covenant, you and I; and let it be for a witness between me and you.” — read the full passage →

wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us; and he has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross;

I subscribed the deed, and sealed it, and called witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances. — read the full passage →

Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings, — read the full passage →

Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable in the sight of all men. — read the full passage →

For he has despised the oath by breaking the covenant; and behold, he had given his hand, and yet has done all these things; he shall not escape.

All the wave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer to Yahweh, have I given you, and your sons and your daughters with you, as a portion forever. It is a covenant of salt forever before Yahweh to you and to your seed with you.”

My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor, if you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger;

My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon to the sea. I will make them into rafts to go by sea to the place that you shall appoint me, and will cause them to be broken up there, and you shall receive them. You shall accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household.” — read the full passage →

This we will do to them, and let them live; lest wrath be on us, because of the oath which we swore to them.”

They rose up some time in the morning, and swore one to another. Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.

A man void of understanding strikes hands, and becomes collateral in the presence of his neighbor.

(now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire), King Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.

then it shall be, if he has sinned, and is guilty, he shall restore that which he took by robbery, or the thing which he has gotten by oppression, or the deposit which was committed to him, or the lost thing which he found, — read the full passage →

Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn’t allow him to hurt me.

“For the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who was the master of a household, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. — read the full passage →

At the end of three days after they had made a covenant with them, they heard that they were their neighbors, and that they lived among them.

Everyone who divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.

Most certainly, the evil man will not be unpunished, but the seed of the righteous will be delivered.

The near kinsman said, “I can’t redeem it for myself, lest I mar my own inheritance. Take my right of redemption for yourself; for I can’t redeem it.” — read the full passage →

Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them, to let them live. The princes of the congregation swore to them. — read the full passage →

or any thing about which he has sworn falsely; he shall restore it even in full, and shall add a fifth part more to it. To him to whom it belongs he shall give it, in the day of his being found guilty.

“If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything. — read the full passage →

For men indeed swear by a greater one, and in every dispute of theirs the oath is final for confirmation. — read the full passage →

the covenant which he made with Abraham, his oath to Isaac.

The children of Israel didn’t strike them, because the princes of the congregation had sworn to them by Yahweh, the God of Israel. All the congregation murmured against the princes. — read the full passage →

Jacob took to himself rods of fresh poplar, almond, plane tree, peeled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods. — read the full passage →

He said, “Appoint me your wages, and I will give it.” — read the full passage →

Laban said to Jacob, “Because you are my brother, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your wages be?” — read the full passage →

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Yet for all this, we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, our Levites, and our priests, seal it.”

In the evening, he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him. He went in to her. — read the full passage →

Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For to you, and to your seed, I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.

Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away. — read the full passage →

Now Boaz went up to the gate, and sat down there. Behold, the near kinsman of whom Boaz spoke came by; to whom he said, “Come over here, friend, and sit down!” He turned aside, and sat down. — read the full passage →

They went to Joshua to the camp at Gilgal, and said to him, and to the men of Israel, “We have come from a far country. Now therefore make a covenant with us.”

“If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything.

Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me yet seven other years.” — read the full passage →

Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away. — read the full passage →

“Again you have heard that it was said to them of old time, ‘You shall not make false vows, but shall perform to the Lord your vows,’ — read the full passage →

I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.

Your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol shall not stand. When the overflowing scourge passes through, then you will be trampled down by it.

“Because you have said, ‘We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol are we in agreement. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it won’t come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves under falsehood.’”

Now this was the custom in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning exchanging, to confirm all things: a man took off his shoe, and gave it to his neighbor; and this was the way of attestation in Israel.

But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai, — read the full passage →

God is not a man, that he should lie, nor the son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.

Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

Again, assuredly I tell you, that if two of you will agree on earth concerning anything that they will ask, it will be done for them by my Father who is in heaven. — read the full passage →

But you shall remember Yahweh your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth; that he may establish his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as at this day.

But if the servant shall plainly say, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children. I will not go out free;’

If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he is married, then his wife shall go out with him.

You masters, do the same things to them, and give up threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with him.

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

Now therefore don’t give your daughters to their sons, neither take their daughters to your sons, nor seek their peace or their prosperity forever; that you may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever.’

Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked, and love those who hate Yahweh? Because of this, wrath is on you from before Yahweh.

Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was on him, and gave it to David, and his clothing, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his sash.

He took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, “Sit down here.” They sat down.

and you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall break down their altars.’ But you have not listened to my voice: why have you done this? — read the full passage →

“But if you do at all go back, and hold fast to the remnant of these nations, even these who remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in to them, and they to you; — read the full passage →

They said to Joshua, “We are your servants.” Joshua said to them, “Who are you? Where do you come from?”

and old and patched shoes on their feet, and wore old garments. All the bread of their provision was dry and moldy.

But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai,

then it shall be, if he has sinned, and is guilty, he shall restore that which he took by robbery, or the thing which he has gotten by oppression, or the deposit which was committed to him, or the lost thing which he found,

If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out by himself.

Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said to him, “Please let me go and return to my brothers who are in Egypt, and see whether they are still alive.” Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.”

He said, “What shall I give you?” Jacob said, “You shall not give me anything. If you will do this thing for me, I will again feed your flock and keep it. — read the full passage →

Laban said to Jacob, “Because you are my brother, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your wages be?” — read the full passage →

to Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all who went in at the gate of his city.

Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have boldness toward God; — read the full passage →

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will serve kings. He won’t serve obscure men.

Joshua called for them, and he spoke to them, saying, “Why have you deceived us, saying, ‘We are very far from you,’ when you live among us?

Laban said to him, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, stay here, for I have divined that Yahweh has blessed me for your sake.” — read the full passage →

Now all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped, and filled with earth.

Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before, — read the full passage →

in whom you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation—in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, — read the full passage →

And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.

But Jesus, when he heard the message spoken, immediately said to the ruler of the synagogue, “Don’t be afraid, only believe.”

Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour,and did likewise.

I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery.”

“For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. — read the full passage →

It is a snare to a man to make a rash dedication, then later to consider his vows.

The integrity of the upright shall guide them, but the perverseness of the treacherous shall destroy them.

For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding. — read the full passage →