and said, “Blessed be the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his steadfast love and his faithfulness toward my master. As for me, the Lord has led me in the way to the house of my master's kinsmen.”

The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness,

Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,

Blessings for Obedience

“And if you faithfully obey the voice of the Lord your God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.

And the men said to her, “Our life for yours even to death! If you do not tell this business of ours, then when the Lord gives us the land we will deal kindly and faithfully with you.”

Choose Whom You Will Serve

“Now therefore fear the Lord and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness. Put away the gods that your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord.

Only fear the Lord and serve him faithfully with all your heart. For consider what great things he has done for you.

The Lord rewards every man for his righteousness and his faithfulness, for the Lord gave you into my hand today, and I would not put out my hand against the Lord's anointed.

Now may the Lord show steadfast love and faithfulness to you. And I will do good to you because you have done this thing.

You came only yesterday, and shall I today make you wander about with us, since I go I know not where? Go back and take your brothers with you, and may the Lord show steadfast love and faithfulness to you.”

I am one of those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel. You seek to destroy a city that is a mother in Israel. Why will you swallow up the heritage of the Lord?”

that the Lord may establish his word that he spoke concerning me, saying, ‘If your sons pay close attention to their way, to walk before me in faithfulness with all their heart and with all their soul, you shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel.’

“Now, O Lord, please remember how I have walked before you in faithfulness and with a whole heart, and have done what is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

And he charged them: “Thus you shall do in the fear of the Lord, in faithfulness, and with your whole heart:

Thus Hezekiah did throughout all Judah, and he did what was good and right and faithful before the Lord his God.

The Faithful Have Vanished

To the choirmaster: according to The Sheminith. A Psalm of David.

Save, O Lord, for the godly one is gone; for the faithful have vanished from among the children of man.

All the paths of the Lord are steadfast love and faithfulness, for those who keep his covenant and his testimonies.

Into your hand I commit my spirit; you have redeemed me, O Lord, faithful God.

Love the Lord, all you his saints! The Lord preserves the faithful but abundantly repays the one who acts in pride.

For the word of the Lord is upright, and all his work is done in faithfulness.

Your steadfast love, O Lord, extends to the heavens, your faithfulness to the clouds.

Trust in the Lord, and do good; dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness.

As for you, O Lord, you will not restrain your mercy from me; your steadfast love and your faithfulness will ever preserve me!

But as for me, my prayer is to you, O Lord. At an acceptable time, O God, in the abundance of your steadfast love answer me in your saving faithfulness.

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