What Does the Bible Say About Broken Promises?

1 John 4:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Deuteronomy 6:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

You shall not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples who are around you—

Zephaniah 2:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The Lord will be awesome against them; for he will famish all the gods of the earth, and to him shall bow down, each in its place, all the lands of the nations.

Isaiah 1:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Micah 5:6 ESV / 1 helpful vote

They shall shepherd the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod at its entrances; and he shall deliver us from the Assyrian when he comes into our land and treads within our border.

Micah 5:2 ESV / 1 helpful vote

But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose coming forth is from of old, from ancient days.

Jonah 3:10 ESV / 1 helpful vote

When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it.

Amos 9:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote

I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said: “Strike the capitals until the thresholds shake, and shatter them on the heads of all the people; and those who are left of them I will kill with the sword; not one of them shall flee away; not one of them shall escape.

Daniel 9:9 ESV / 1 helpful vote

To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against him

Ezekiel 18:29 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Yet the house of Israel says, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ O house of Israel, are my ways not just? Is it not your ways that are not just?

Jeremiah 32:17 ESV / 1 helpful vote

‘Ah, Lord God! It is you who have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm! Nothing is too hard for you.

Jeremiah 31:15 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Thus says the Lord: “A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping. Rachel is weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.”

Jeremiah 10:11 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Thus shall you say to them: “The gods who did not make the heavens and the earth shall perish from the earth and from under the heavens.”

Jeremiah 10:10 ESV / 1 helpful vote

But the Lord is the true God; he is the living God and the everlasting King. At his wrath the earth quakes, and the nations cannot endure his indignation.

Isaiah 66:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Thus says the Lord: “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool; what is the house that you would build for me, and what is the place of my rest?

Isaiah 48:12 ESV / 1 helpful vote

“Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel, whom I called! I am he; I am the first, and I am the last.

Isaiah 44:6 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Thus says the Lord, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the Lord of hosts: “I am the first and I am the last; besides me there is no god.

Isaiah 43:10 ESV / 1 helpful vote

“You are my witnesses,” declares the Lord, “and my servant whom I have chosen, that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he. Before me no god was formed, nor shall there be any after me.

Isaiah 9:6 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Isaiah 6:13 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And though a tenth remain in it, it will be burned again, like a terebinth or an oak, whose stump remains when it is felled.” The holy seed is its stump.

Proverbs 30:5 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Every word of God proves true; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him.

Proverbs 30:1-33 ESV / 1 helpful vote

The words of Agur son of Jakeh. The oracle. The man declares, I am weary, O God; I am weary, O God, and worn out. Surely I am too stupid to be a man. I have not the understanding of a man. I have not learned wisdom, nor have I knowledge of the Holy One. Who has ascended to heaven and come down? Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has wrapped up the waters in a garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son's name? Surely you know! Every word of God proves true; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him. ...

Proverbs 10:3 ESV / 1 helpful vote

The Lord does not let the righteous go hungry, but he thwarts the craving of the wicked.

Psalm 145:19-20 ESV / 1 helpful vote

He fulfills the desire of those who fear him; he also hears their cry and saves them. The Lord preserves all who love him, but all the wicked he will destroy.

Psalm 145:18 ESV / 1 helpful vote

The Lord is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

Psalm 22:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote

To the choirmaster: according to The Doe of the Dawn. A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning?

Psalm 19:8 ESV / 1 helpful vote

The precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes;

Psalm 18:11 ESV / 1 helpful vote

He made darkness his covering, his canopy around him, thick clouds dark with water.

Psalm 10:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Why, O Lord, do you stand far away? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?

Psalm 7:10-11 ESV / 1 helpful vote

My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart. God is a righteous judge, and a God who feels indignation every day.

Job 42:5 ESV / 1 helpful vote

I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you;

Job 34:21-22 ESV / 1 helpful vote

“For his eyes are on the ways of a man, and he sees all his steps. There is no gloom or deep darkness where evildoers may hide themselves.

Job 9:32 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For he is not a man, as I am, that I might answer him, that we should come to trial together.

2 Chronicles 25:8 ESV / 1 helpful vote

But go, act, be strong for the battle. Why should you suppose that God will cast you down before the enemy? For God has power to help or to cast down.”

2 Chronicles 7:14 ESV / 1 helpful vote

If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.

2 Chronicles 2:5 ESV / 1 helpful vote

The house that I am to build will be great, for our God is greater than all gods.

1 Chronicles 16:25 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised, and he is to be held in awe above all gods.

1 Kings 8:12 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Then Solomon said, “The Lord has said that he would dwell in thick darkness.

1 Samuel 2:30-31 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Therefore the Lord, the God of Israel, declares: ‘I promised that your house and the house of your father should go in and out before me forever,’ but now the Lord declares: ‘Far be it from me, for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed. Behold, the days are coming when I will cut off your strength and the strength of your father's house, so that there will not be an old man in your house.

Judges 9:23 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the leaders of Shechem, and the leaders of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech,

Judges 1:19 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And the Lord was with Judah, and he took possession of the hill country, but he could not drive out the inhabitants of the plain because they had chariots of iron.

Deuteronomy 32:4 ESV / 1 helpful vote

“The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and upright is he.

Deuteronomy 14:1-29 ESV / 1 helpful vote

“You are the sons of the Lord your God. You shall not cut yourselves or make any baldness on your foreheads for the dead. For you are a people holy to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. “You shall not eat any abomination. These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat, the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain sheep. ...

Deuteronomy 8:2 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And you shall remember the whole way that the Lord your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not.

Deuteronomy 6:16 ESV / 1 helpful vote

“You shall not put the Lord your God to the test, as you tested him at Massah.

Deuteronomy 6:1-25 ESV / 1 helpful vote

“Now this is the commandment, the statutes and the rules that the Lord your God commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land to which you are going over, to possess it, that you may fear the Lord your God, you and your son and your son's son, by keeping all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, all the days of your life, and that your days may be long. Hear therefore, O Israel, and be careful to do them, that it may go well with you, and that you may multiply greatly, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey. “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. ...

Deuteronomy 4:7 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For what great nation is there that has a god so near to it as the Lord our God is to us, whenever we call upon him?

Numbers 23:19 ESV / 1 helpful vote

God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?

Numbers 12:6-8 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And he said, “Hear my words: If there is a prophet among you, I the Lord make myself known to him in a vision; I speak with him in a dream. Not so with my servant Moses. He is faithful in all my house. With him I speak mouth to mouth, clearly, and not in riddles, and he beholds the form of the Lord. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?”

Leviticus 11:44 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For I am the Lord your God. Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any swarming thing that crawls on the ground.

Exodus 33:20 ESV / 1 helpful vote

But,” he said, “you cannot see my face, for man shall not see me and live.”

Exodus 33:17 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And the Lord said to Moses, “This very thing that you have spoken I will do, for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name.”

Exodus 33:14 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And he said, “My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”

Exodus 33:11 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Thus the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. When Moses turned again into the camp, his assistant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent.

Exodus 33:3 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey; but I will not go up among you, lest I consume you on the way, for you are a stiff-necked people.”

Exodus 33:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote

The Lord said to Moses, “Depart; go up from here, you and the people whom you have brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, ‘To your offspring I will give it.’

Exodus 24:9-10 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up, and they saw the God of Israel. There was under his feet as it were a pavement of sapphire stone, like the very heaven for clearness.

Exodus 20:1-6 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And God spoke all these words, saying, “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. “You shall have no other gods before me. “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, ...

Exodus 20:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And God spoke all these words, saying,

Exodus 19:6 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel.”

Exodus 17:2 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Therefore the people quarreled with Moses and said, “Give us water to drink.” And Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the Lord?”

Exodus 15:3 ESV / 1 helpful vote

The Lord is a man of war; the Lord is his name.

Exodus 12:46 ESV / 1 helpful vote

It shall be eaten in one house; you shall not take any of the flesh outside the house, and you shall not break any of its bones.

Genesis 35:9 ESV / 1 helpful vote

God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan-aram, and blessed him.

Genesis 32:30 ESV / 1 helpful vote

So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, saying, “For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life has been delivered.”

Genesis 26:2 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And the Lord appeared to him and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; dwell in the land of which I shall tell you.

Genesis 18:23 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Then Abraham drew near and said, “Will you indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked?

Genesis 13:15 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For all the land that you see I will give to you and to your offspring forever.

Genesis 12:7 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

Genesis 11:5 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built.

Genesis 6:6-7 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And the Lord was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart. So the Lord said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens, for I am sorry that I have made them.”

Genesis 3:8 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.

73 Bible Verses about Broken Promises