Bible Verses About Breaking Covenants
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for breaking covenants, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 409 votes, led by James 4:17. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Breaking Covenants
James 4:1733 votes
Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
Ecclesiastes 5:4-632 votes
When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.
Matthew 19:629 votes
Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Matthew 19:927 votes
And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
1 Corinthians 7:1027 votes
And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
Galatians 3:1526 votes
Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though it be but a man’s covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto.
Ezekiel 16:1-6320 votes
Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
Hebrews 13:419 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Luke 16:1817 votes
Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.
James 4:116 votes
From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
Revelation 2:1-2916 votes
Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks;
1 Corinthians 7:3915 votes
The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.
Malachi 2:1413 votes
Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the Lord hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
Romans 7:1-313 votes
Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?
Galatians 3:1712 votes
And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.
Leviticus 20:1011 votes
And the man that committeth adultery with another man’s wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
Numbers 30:1-211 votes
And Moses spake unto the heads of the tribes concerning the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded.
Proverbs 2:1711 votes
Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.
Mark 10:1-5211 votes
And he arose from thence, and cometh into the coasts of Judea by the farther side of Jordan: and the people resort unto him again; and, as he was wont, he taught them again.
Exodus 20:810 votes
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Nehemiah 9:3810 votes
And because of all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, Levites, and priests, seal unto it.
Isaiah 64:610 votes
But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
Jeremiah 34:15-1810 votes
And ye were now turned, and had done right in my sight, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbour; and ye had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name:
James 2:1010 votes
For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
What does the Bible say about breaking covenants?
Readers most often cite James 4:17 on the subject of breaking covenants. Across 409 votes, 24 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Ecclesiastes 5:4-6, Matthew 19:6, Matthew 19:9. This page lists all 24 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.