After he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked faithfully with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters.

Enoch walked faithfully with God; then he was no more, because God took him away.

Noah and the Flood

This is the account of Noah and his family. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God.

The Covenant of Circumcision

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty; walk before me faithfully and be blameless.

saying, “Praise be to the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who has not abandoned his kindness and faithfulness to my master. As for me, the Lord has led me on the journey to the house of my master’s relatives.”

“He replied, ‘The Lord, before whom I have walked faithfully, will send his angel with you and make your journey a success, so that you can get a wife for my son from my own clan and from my father’s family.

Now if you will show kindness and faithfulness to my master, tell me; and if not, tell me, so I may know which way to turn.”

I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness you have shown your servant. I had only my staff when I crossed this Jordan, but now I have become two camps.

When the time drew near for Israel to die, he called for his son Joseph and said to him, “If I have found favor in your eyes, put your hand under my thigh and promise that you will show me kindness and faithfulness. Do not bury me in Egypt,

Then he blessed Joseph and said, “May the God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked faithfully, the God who has been my shepherd all my life to this day,

If she does not please the master who has selected her for himself, he must let her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to foreigners, because he has broken faith with her.

And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, “The Lord, the Lord, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness,

But this is not true of my servant Moses; he is faithful in all my house.

Know therefore that the Lord your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commandments.

So if you faithfully obey the commands I am giving you today—to love the Lord your God and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul—

He is the Rock, his works are perfect, and all his ways are just. A faithful God who does no wrong, upright and just is he.

This is because both of you broke faith with me in the presence of the Israelites at the waters of Meribah Kadesh in the Desert of Zin and because you did not uphold my holiness among the Israelites.

About Levi he said: “Your Thummim and Urim belong to your faithful servant. You tested him at Massah; you contended with him at the waters of Meribah.

“Our lives for your lives!” the men assured her. “If you don’t tell what we are doing, we will treat you kindly and faithfully when the Lord gives us the land.”

“The whole assembly of the Lord says: ‘How could you break faith with the God of Israel like this? How could you turn away from the Lord and build yourselves an altar in rebellion against him now?

“Now fear the Lord and serve him with all faithfulness. Throw away the gods your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord.

“Have you acted honorably and in good faith by making Abimelek king? Have you been fair to Jerub-Baal and his family? Have you treated him as he deserves?

So have you acted honorably and in good faith toward Jerub-Baal and his family today? If you have, may Abimelek be your joy, and may you be his, too!

He will guard the feet of his faithful servants, but the wicked will be silenced in the place of darkness. “It is not by strength that one prevails;

I will raise up for myself a faithful priest, who will do according to what is in my heart and mind. I will firmly establish his priestly house, and they will minister before my anointed one always.

But be sure to fear the Lord and serve him faithfully with all your heart; consider what great things he has done for you.

Then someone said to Saul, “Look, the men are sinning against the Lord by eating meat that has blood in it.” “You have broken faith,” he said. “Roll a large stone over here at once.”

The Lord rewards everyone for their righteousness and faithfulness. The Lord delivered you into my hands today, but I would not lay a hand on the Lord’s anointed.

May the Lord now show you kindness and faithfulness, and I too will show you the same favor because you have done this.

You came only yesterday. And today shall I make you wander about with us, when I do not know where I am going? Go back, and take your people with you. May the Lord show you kindness and faithfulness.”

We are the peaceful and faithful in Israel. You are trying to destroy a city that is a mother in Israel. Why do you want to swallow up the Lord’s inheritance?”

“To the faithful you show yourself faithful, to the blameless you show yourself blameless,

and that the Lord may keep his promise to me: ‘If your descendants watch how they live, and if they walk faithfully before me with all their heart and soul, you will never fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.’

Solomon answered, “You have shown great kindness to your servant, my father David, because he was faithful to you and righteous and upright in heart. You have continued this great kindness to him and have given him a son to sit on his throne this very day.

“Now Lord, the God of Israel, keep for your servant David my father the promises you made to him when you said, ‘You shall never fail to have a successor to sit before me on the throne of Israel, if only your descendants are careful in all they do to walk before me faithfully as you have done.’

“As for you, if you walk before me faithfully with integrity of heart and uprightness, as David your father did, and do all I command and observe my decrees and laws,

“Remember, Lord, how I have walked before you faithfully and with wholehearted devotion and have done what is good in your eyes.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

“Now arise, Lord God, and come to your resting place, you and the ark of your might. May your priests, Lord God, be clothed with salvation, may your faithful people rejoice in your goodness.

“As for you, if you walk before me faithfully as David your father did, and do all I command, and observe my decrees and laws,

He gave them these orders: “You must serve faithfully and wholeheartedly in the fear of the Lord.

Early in the morning they left for the Desert of Tekoa. As they set out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Listen to me, Judah and people of Jerusalem! Have faith in the Lord your God and you will be upheld; have faith in his prophets and you will be successful.”

Then they faithfully brought in the contributions, tithes and dedicated gifts. Konaniah, a Levite, was the overseer in charge of these things, and his brother Shimei was next in rank.

Eden, Miniamin, Jeshua, Shemaiah, Amariah and Shekaniah assisted him faithfully in the towns of the priests, distributing to their fellow priests according to their divisions, old and young alike.

They included all the little ones, the wives, and the sons and daughters of the whole community listed in these genealogical records. For they were faithful in consecrating themselves.

This is what Hezekiah did throughout Judah, doing what was good and right and faithful before the Lord his God.

Sennacherib Threatens Jerusalem

After all that Hezekiah had so faithfully done, Sennacherib king of Assyria came and invaded Judah. He laid siege to the fortified cities, thinking to conquer them for himself.

The workers labored faithfully. Over them to direct them were Jahath and Obadiah, Levites descended from Merari, and Zechariah and Meshullam, descended from Kohath. The Levites—all who were skilled in playing musical instruments—

You found his heart faithful to you, and you made a covenant with him to give to his descendants the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Jebusites and Girgashites. You have kept your promise because you are righteous.

In all that has happened to us, you have remained righteous; you have acted faithfully, while we acted wickedly.

Remember me for this, my God, and do not blot out what I have so faithfully done for the house of my God and its services.

Know that the Lord has set apart his faithful servant for himself; the Lord hears when I call to him.

Psalm 12

For the director of music. According to sheminith. A psalm of David.

Help, Lord, for no one is faithful anymore; those who are loyal have vanished from the human race.

because you will not abandon me to the realm of the dead, nor will you let your faithful one see decay.

To the faithful you show yourself faithful, to the blameless you show yourself blameless,

All the ways of the Lord are loving and faithful toward those who keep the demands of his covenant.

for I have always been mindful of your unfailing love and have lived in reliance on your faithfulness.

Sing the praises of the Lord, you his faithful people; praise his holy name.

“What is gained if I am silenced, if I go down to the pit? Will the dust praise you? Will it proclaim your faithfulness?

Into your hands I commit my spirit; deliver me, Lord, my faithful God.

Love the Lord, all his faithful people! The Lord preserves those who are true to him, but the proud he pays back in full.

Therefore let all the faithful pray to you while you may be found; surely the rising of the mighty waters will not reach them.

For the word of the Lord is right and true; he is faithful in all he does.

Your love, Lord, reaches to the heavens, your faithfulness to the skies.

For the Lord loves the just and will not forsake his faithful ones. Wrongdoers will be completely destroyed; the offspring of the wicked will perish.

I do not hide your righteousness in my heart; I speak of your faithfulness and your saving help. I do not conceal your love and your faithfulness from the great assembly.

Do not withhold your mercy from me, Lord; may your love and faithfulness always protect me.

Send me your light and your faithful care, let them lead me; let them bring me to your holy mountain, to the place where you dwell.

Yet you desired faithfulness even in the womb; you taught me wisdom in that secret place.

For what you have done I will always praise you in the presence of your faithful people. And I will hope in your name, for your name is good.

Let evil recoil on those who slander me; in your faithfulness destroy them.

He sends from heaven and saves me, rebuking those who hotly pursue me— God sends forth his love and his faithfulness.

For great is your love, reaching to the heavens; your faithfulness reaches to the skies.

May he be enthroned in God’s presence forever; appoint your love and faithfulness to protect him.

I will praise you with the harp for your faithfulness, my God; I will sing praise to you with the lyre, Holy One of Israel.

They would not be like their ancestors— a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose hearts were not loyal to God, whose spirits were not faithful to him.

their hearts were not loyal to him, they were not faithful to his covenant.

Like their ancestors they were disloyal and faithless, as unreliable as a faulty bow.

I will listen to what God the Lord says; he promises peace to his people, his faithful servants— but let them not turn to folly.

Love and faithfulness meet together; righteousness and peace kiss each other.

Faithfulness springs forth from the earth, and righteousness looks down from heaven.

Guard my life, for I am faithful to you; save your servant who trusts in you. You are my God;

Teach me your way, Lord, that I may rely on your faithfulness; give me an undivided heart, that I may fear your name.

But you, Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness.

Is your love declared in the grave, your faithfulness in Destruction?

Psalm 89

A maskil of Ethan the Ezrahite.

I will sing of the Lord’s great love forever; with my mouth I will make your faithfulness known through all generations.

I will declare that your love stands firm forever, that you have established your faithfulness in heaven itself.

The heavens praise your wonders, Lord, your faithfulness too, in the assembly of the holy ones.

Who is like you, Lord God Almighty? You, Lord, are mighty, and your faithfulness surrounds you.

Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne; love and faithfulness go before you.

Once you spoke in a vision, to your faithful people you said: “I have bestowed strength on a warrior; I have raised up a young man from among the people.

My faithful love will be with him, and through my name his horn will be exalted.

but I will not take my love from him, nor will I ever betray my faithfulness.

it will be established forever like the moon, the faithful witness in the sky.”

Lord, where is your former great love, which in your faithfulness you swore to David?

He will cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.

proclaiming your love in the morning and your faithfulness at night,

Let all creation rejoice before the Lord, for he comes, he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness and the peoples in his faithfulness.

Let those who love the Lord hate evil, for he guards the lives of his faithful ones and delivers them from the hand of the wicked.

He has remembered his love and his faithfulness to Israel; all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

For the Lord is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations.

I will not look with approval on anything that is vile. I hate what faithless people do; I will have no part in it.

My eyes will be on the faithful in the land, that they may dwell with me; the one whose walk is blameless will minister to me.

For great is your love, higher than the heavens; your faithfulness reaches to the skies.

The works of his hands are faithful and just; all his precepts are trustworthy.

They are established for ever and ever, enacted in faithfulness and uprightness.

Psalm 115

Not to us, Lord, not to us but to your name be the glory, because of your love and faithfulness.

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his faithful servants.

For great is his love toward us, and the faithfulness of the Lord endures forever. Praise the Lord.

I have chosen the way of faithfulness; I have set my heart on your laws.

I know, Lord, that your laws are righteous, and that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.

Your faithfulness continues through all generations; you established the earth, and it endures.

I look on the faithless with loathing, for they do not obey your word.

May your priests be clothed with your righteousness; may your faithful people sing for joy.’”

I will clothe her priests with salvation, and her faithful people will ever sing for joy.

I will bow down toward your holy temple and will praise your name for your unfailing love and your faithfulness, for you have so exalted your solemn decree that it surpasses your fame.

Psalm 143

A psalm of David.

Lord, hear my prayer, listen to my cry for mercy; in your faithfulness and righteousness come to my relief.

All your works praise you, Lord; your faithful people extol you.

Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and your dominion endures through all generations. The Lord is trustworthy in all he promises and faithful in all he does.

The Lord is righteous in all his ways and faithful in all he does.

He is the Maker of heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them— he remains faithful forever.

And he has raised up for his people a horn, the praise of all his faithful servants, of Israel, the people close to his heart. Praise the Lord.

Psalm 149

Praise the Lord. Sing to the Lord a new song, his praise in the assembly of his faithful people.

Let his faithful people rejoice in this honor and sing for joy on their beds.

to carry out the sentence written against them— this is the glory of all his faithful people. Praise the Lord.

for he guards the course of the just and protects the way of his faithful ones.

Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.

The faithless will be fully repaid for their ways, and the good rewarded for theirs.

Do not those who plot evil go astray? But those who plan what is good find love and faithfulness.

Through love and faithfulness sin is atoned for; through the fear of the Lord evil is avoided.

Many claim to have unfailing love, but a faithful person who can find?

Love and faithfulness keep a king safe; through love his throne is made secure.

A faithful person will be richly blessed, but one eager to get rich will not go unpunished.

She speaks with wisdom, and faithful instruction is on her tongue.

See how the faithful city has become a prostitute! She once was full of justice; righteousness used to dwell in her— but now murderers!

I will restore your leaders as in days of old, your rulers as at the beginning. Afterward you will be called the City of Righteousness, the Faithful City.”

The head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is only Remaliah’s son. If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all.’”

Righteousness will be his belt and faithfulness the sash around his waist.

In love a throne will be established; in faithfulness a man will sit on it— one from the house of David— one who in judging seeks justice and speeds the cause of righteousness.

Praise to the Lord

Lord, you are my God; I will exalt you and praise your name, for in perfect faithfulness you have done wonderful things, things planned long ago.

Open the gates that the righteous nation may enter, the nation that keeps faith.

“Remember, Lord, how I have walked before you faithfully and with wholehearted devotion and have done what is good in your eyes.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

For the grave cannot praise you, death cannot sing your praise; those who go down to the pit cannot hope for your faithfulness.

The living, the living—they praise you, as I am doing today; parents tell their children about your faithfulness.

A voice says, “Cry out.” And I said, “What shall I cry?” “All people are like grass, and all their faithfulness is like the flowers of the field.

A bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out. In faithfulness he will bring forth justice;

This is what the Lord says— the Redeemer and Holy One of Israel— to him who was despised and abhorred by the nation, to the servant of rulers: “Kings will see you and stand up, princes will see and bow down, because of the Lord, who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”

Give ear and come to me; listen, that you may live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, my faithful love promised to David.

“For I, the Lord, love justice; I hate robbery and wrongdoing. In my faithfulness I will reward my people and make an everlasting covenant with them.

Unfaithful Israel

During the reign of King Josiah, the Lord said to me, “Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every spreading tree and has committed adultery there.

I gave faithless Israel her certificate of divorce and sent her away because of all her adulteries. Yet I saw that her unfaithful sister Judah had no fear; she also went out and committed adultery.

The Lord said to me, “Faithless Israel is more righteous than unfaithful Judah.

Go, proclaim this message toward the north: “‘Return, faithless Israel,’ declares the Lord, ‘I will frown on you no longer, for I am faithful,’ declares the Lord, ‘I will not be angry forever.

“Return, faithless people,” declares the Lord, “for I am your husband. I will choose you—one from a town and two from a clan—and bring you to Zion.

“Return, faithless people; I will cure you of backsliding.” “Yes, we will come to you, for you are the Lord our God.

Jeremiah’s Complaint

You are always righteous, Lord, when I bring a case before you. Yet I would speak with you about your justice: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease?

Let the prophet who has a dream recount the dream, but let the one who has my word speak it faithfully. For what has straw to do with grain?” declares the Lord.

Then they said to Jeremiah, “May the Lord be a true and faithful witness against us if we do not act in accordance with everything the Lord your God sends you to tell us.

They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.

He follows my decrees and faithfully keeps my laws. That man is righteous; he will surely live, declares the Sovereign Lord.

and if they are ashamed of all they have done, make known to them the design of the temple—its arrangement, its exits and entrances—its whole design and all its regulations and laws. Write these down before them so that they may be faithful to its design and follow all its regulations.

This will be for the consecrated priests, the Zadokites, who were faithful in serving me and did not go astray as the Levites did when the Israelites went astray.

I will betroth you in faithfulness, and you will acknowledge the Lord.

The Charge Against Israel

Hear the word of the Lord, you Israelites, because the Lord has a charge to bring against you who live in the land: “There is no faithfulness, no love, no acknowledgment of God in the land.

Israel’s Sin

Ephraim has surrounded me with lies, Israel with deceit. And Judah is unruly against God, even against the faithful Holy One.

Be glad, people of Zion, rejoice in the Lord your God, for he has given you the autumn rains because he is faithful. He sends you abundant showers, both autumn and spring rains, as before.

The faithful have been swept from the land; not one upright person remains. Everyone lies in wait to shed blood; they hunt each other with nets.

You will be faithful to Jacob, and show love to Abraham, as you pledged on oath to our ancestors in days long ago.

“See, the enemy is puffed up; his desires are not upright— but the righteous person will live by his faithfulness—

This is what the Lord says: “I will return to Zion and dwell in Jerusalem. Then Jerusalem will be called the Faithful City, and the mountain of the Lord Almighty will be called the Holy Mountain.”

I will bring them back to live in Jerusalem; they will be my people, and I will be faithful and righteous to them as their God.”

The Faithful Remnant

Then those who feared the Lord talked with each other, and the Lord listened and heard. A scroll of remembrance was written in his presence concerning those who feared the Lord and honored his name.