Bible verses about "contracts" | LEB

⁹ My servants will bring them down from Lebanon to the sea, and I will make them into rafts in the sea to float to the place which you indicated to me. Then I shall break them up there, and you may carry them further, and _⌊you shall meet my needs_⌋* by giving food for my house." ¹⁰ So Hiram was giving to Solomon the cedar timbers and the cypress timbers, _⌊everything he needed_⌋.* ¹¹ Then Solomon gave to Hiram twenty thousand dry measures of wheat as food for his household, and twenty dry measures of _⌊specially prepared olive oil_⌋;* thus Solomon gave to Hiram year by year.

¹⁸ And he despised the oath to break covenant. And, look, he gave his hand in pledge, and yet he did all of these things. He will not escape.'

¹⁷ Pay back no one evil for evil. Take thought for what is good in the sight of all people. ¹⁸ If it is possible on your part, be at peace with all people. ¹⁹ Do not take revenge yourselves, dear friends, but give place to God's wrath, for it is written, "Vengeance is mine, I will repay,"* says the Lord. ²⁰ But "if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by* doing this, you will heap up coals of fire upon his head."* ²¹ Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

¹⁶ For people swear by what is greater than themselves, and the oath for confirmation is the end of all dispute for them.

⁹ Do not lie to one another, because you* have taken off the old man together with his deeds, ¹⁰ and have put on the new man that is being renewed in knowledge according to the image of the one who created him,

⁴⁴ So now, come, let us _⌊make_⌋* a covenant, you and I, and let it be a witness between me and you." ⁴⁵ And Jacob took a stone and set it up as a stone pillar. ⁴⁶ And Jacob said to his kinsmen, "Gather stones." And they took stones and made a pile of stones, and they ate there by the pile of stones. ⁴⁷ And Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha,* but Jacob called it Galeed.* ⁴⁸ Then Laban said, "This pile of stones is a witness between me and you today." Therefore its name is called Galeed,* ⁴⁹ and Mizpah,* because he said, "Yahweh watch between me and you when _⌊we are out of sight of each other_⌋.* ⁵⁰ If you mistreat my daughters, and if you take wives besides my daughters, when there is no man with us, see—God is a witness between me and you." ⁵¹ And Laban said to Jacob, "See, this pile of stones, and see the pillar that I have set up between me and you. ⁵² This pile of stones is a witness, and the pillar is a witness, that I will not pass beyond this pile of stones to you, and that you will not pass beyond this pile of stones and this pillar to me intending harm. ⁵³ May the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father* judge between us." Then Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac. ⁵⁴ And Jacob sacrificed a sacrifice on the hill, and he called his kinsmen to eat the meal.* And they ate the meal* and spent the night on the hill.

² "When a person* _⌊displays infidelity_⌋* against Yahweh and he deceives his fellow citizen regarding* something entrusted or _⌊a pledge_⌋* or stealing or he exploits his fellow citizen,

² if a man makes a vow for Yahweh or swears an oath with a binding pledge on himself, he must not render his word invalid; he must do all that went out from his mouth.

¹⁵ And Joshua made peace with them, and _⌊he made a covenant with them_⌋* to allow them to live happily, and the leaders of the congregation swore an oath to them.

¹⁶ There are six things Yahweh hates, and seven things are abominations of his soul:* ¹⁷ haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, ¹⁸ a devising heart, plans of deception, feet that hurry to run to evil,* ¹⁹ a false witness who breathes lies and sends out discord* between brothers.

¹⁰ And I signed on the letter* and sealed it,* and I called witnesses as witness, and I weighed out the money on a set of scales. ¹¹ Then I took the deed* of the purchase, the sealed copy containing the commandments* and the rules, together with the one that was open. ¹² And I gave the deed of the purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, _⌊in the presence of_⌋* Hanamel, the son of my uncle, and _⌊in the presence of_⌋* the witnesses who signed the deed of the purchase, _⌊in the presence of_⌋* the Judeans* who were sitting in the courtyard of the guard. ¹³ And I commanded Baruch _⌊in their presence_⌋,* _⌊saying_⌋,* ¹⁴ 'Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, "Take these deeds,* this deed of the purchase, the sealed one, and this opened deed, and you must put them in an _⌊earthenware jar_⌋* so that they may be kept preserved many days." ¹⁵ For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: "Houses and fields and vineyards will again be bought in this land." '

³⁷ But let your statement be 'Yes, yes; no, no,' and anything beyond these is from the evil one.*

¹⁴ having destroyed the certificate of indebtedness in ordinances against us, which was hostile to us, and removed it out of the way by* nailing it to the cross.

²⁶ Do not be with those who _⌊give a pledge_⌋* _⌊by becoming_⌋* surety.

¹⁷ In the same way God, because he* wanted to show even more to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of his resolve, guaranteed it with an oath,

¹⁵ Brothers, I am speaking according to a human perspective. Nevertheless, when* the covenant of a man has been ratified, no one declares it invalid or adds additional provisions to it.