2 Samuel 23:5

Is not my house like this with God? For he has made an everlasting covenant with me, set in order in every part and secured. All my salvation and all my desire, will he not make them grow?
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Treated in 9 passages across the library.

  1. Freedom of the Will · Jonathan Edwards

    Section II. The Acts of the Will of the Human Soul of Jesus Christ, Necessarily Holy, Yet Truly Virtuous, Praise-worthy, Rewardable, &c cites 2 Sam. xxiii. 5

    …as sure and irrefragable, as this promise and oath to David. (See Psalm. lxxxix. 34 – 36. 2 Sam. xxiii. 5. Isa. lv. 4. Acts ii. 29, 30. and xiii. 34.) The Scripture expressly speaks of it as…

  2. Communion with God · John Owen

    Digression I: some excellencies of Christ proposed to consideration cites 2 Sam. xxiii. 5

    …our use: and on the account hereof is the covenant said to be “ordered in all things,” 2 Sam. xxiii. 5. 3. Eminency. His cheeks are “a tower of perfumes” held up, made conspicuous, visible…

  3. Communion with God · John Owen

    Of communion with Christ in holiness cites 2 Sam. xxiii. 5

    …promise thereof, Gen. iii. 15; the whole being so “ordered in all things, and made sure,” 2 Sam. xxiii. 5, that the residue of its effects should all be derived from him, depend upon him, and be…

  4. Practical Religion · J. C. Ryle

    The Family of God cites 2 Sam. xxiii. 5

    …family are alike secured by "an everlasting covenant ordered in all things and sure." (2 Sam. xxiii. 5.) The members on earth, through the burden of the flesh and the dimness of their faith…

  5. Morning by Morning · Charles H. Spurgeon

    December cites 2 Samuel 23:5

    …than wine to our souls. December 21 “Yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant.” (2 Samuel 23:5) This covenant is divine in its origin. “He hath made with me an everlasting covenant.”…

  6. Holiness · J. C. Ryle

    Assurance cites 2 Sam. xxiii. 5

    …covenant, ordered in all things and sure.” (2 Kings iv. 26; Heb. xiii. 8; Rom. vi. 9; 2 Sam. xxiii. 5.) Assurance will enable a man to praise God, and be thankful, even in prison, like Paul…

  7. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

    The Truth of God cites 2 Sam 23:5

    …God, yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and sure.’ 2 Sam 23:5. Although my house be not so, that is, though I fail much of that exact purity the Lord…

  8. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

    The Covenant of Grace cites 2 Sam 23:5

    …surer. ‘Thou hast made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure.’ 2 Sam 23:5. The first covenant was not sure, it stood upon a tottering foundation of works. Adam had…

  9. Old Paths · J. C. Ryle

    Perseverance cites 2 Sam. xxiii. 5

    …is all conducted according to an “everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and sure.” (2 Sam. xxiii. 5.) All things are working together for thy good. Thy sorrows are only purifying thy soul…

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