God: Immutable

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  1. God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?
  2. I have indeed received a command to bless; He has blessed, and I cannot change it.
  3. Moreover, the Glory of Israel does not lie or change His mind, for He is not a man, that He should change His mind.”
  4. But He is unchangeable, and who can oppose Him? He does what He desires.
  5. The counsel of the LORD stands forever, the purposes of His heart to all generations.
  6. Your word, O LORD, is everlasting; it is firmly fixed in the heavens. …
  7. Many plans are in a man’s heart, but the purpose of the LORD will prevail.
  8. I know that everything God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it or taken from it. God does it so that they should fear Him.
  9. Consider the work of God: Who can straighten what He has bent?
  10. Yet He too is wise and brings disaster; He does not call back His words. He will rise up against the house of the wicked and against the allies of evildoers.
  11. Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary; His understanding is beyond searching out.
  12. Surely the arm of the LORD is not too short to save, nor His ear too dull to hear.
  13. I will ransom them from the power of Sheol; I will redeem them from Death. Where, O Death, are your plagues? Where, O Sheol, is your sting? Compassion is hidden from My eyes.
  14. “Because I, the LORD, do not change, you descendants of Jacob have not been destroyed.
  15. For God’s gifts and His call are irrevocable.
  16. So when God wanted to make the unchanging nature of His purpose very clear to the heirs of the promise, He guaranteed it with an oath.
  17. Thus by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope set before us may be strongly encouraged.
  18. Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom there is no change or shifting shadow.