Psalms 89:35
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Once and for all I have sworn by My holiness— I will not lie to David—”
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BSBPD
“Once and for all I have sworn by My holiness— I will not lie to David—”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Once have I sworn by my holiness: I will not lie unto David:”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“Once I have sworn by My holiness, I lie not to David,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Psalms 89:35 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Numbers 23:19God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?
- Psalms 110:4The LORD has sworn and will not change His mind: “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”
- Psalms 132:11The LORD swore an oath to David, a promise He will not revoke: “One of your descendants I will place on your throne.
- Amos 4:2The Lord GOD has sworn by His holiness: “Behold, the days are coming when you will be taken away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.
- Amos 8:7The LORD has sworn by the Pride of Jacob: “I will never forget any of their deeds.
- 2 Thessalonians 2:13But we should always thank God for you, brothers who are loved by the Lord, because God has chosen you from the beginning to be saved by the sanctification of the Spirit and by faith in the truth.
- Titus 1:2in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began.
- Hebrews 6:13When God made His promise to Abraham, since He had no one greater to swear by, He swore by Himself,
- Hebrews 6:17So when God wanted to make the unchanging nature of His purpose very clear to the heirs of the promise, He guaranteed it with an oath.
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