Terms

Abraham agreed to Ephron’s terms and weighed out for him the price he had named in the hearing of the Hittites: four hundred shekels of silver, according to the standard of the merchants.

…according to the terms of law they give and the verdict they proclaim. Do not turn aside to the right or to the left from the decision they declare to you.

So Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him their leader and commander. And Jephthah repeated all his terms in the presence of the LORD at Mizpah.

When the servants reported these terms to David, he was pleased to become the king’s son-in-law. Before the wedding day arrived,

And the elders and the people all said, “Do not listen to him or consent to his terms.”

Should God repay you on your own terms when you have disavowed Him? You must choose, not I; so tell me what you know.

Then I took the deed of purchase—the sealed copy with its terms and conditions, as well as the open copy—

And those who have transgressed My covenant and have not fulfilled the terms of the covenant they made before Me, I will treat like the calf they cut in two in order to pass between its pieces.

And if he is unable, he will send a delegation while the other king is still far off, to ask for terms of peace.

But if our unrighteousness highlights the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unjust to inflict His wrath on us? I am speaking in human terms.

I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to escalating wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness.

Brothers, let me put this in human terms. Even a human covenant, once it is ratified, cannot be canceled or amended.