WE WILL ALL KNOW HIM
*COMMITMENT, n.
1.  The act of committing; a sending to prison; a putting into prison; imprisonment.  It is equivalent to sending or putting in simply; as a commitment to the tower, or to Newgate; or for the sake of brevity, omitting the name of the place, it is equivalent to putting into prison; as, the offender is secured by commitment.
2.  An order for confining in prison.  But more generally we use mittimus.
3.  The act of referring or entrusting to a committee for consideration; a term in legislation; as the commitment of a petition or a bill to a select number of persons for consideration and report.
4.  The act of delivering in charge or entrusting.
5.  A doing, or perpetration, as of sin or a crime; commission.
6.  The act of pledging or engaging; or the act of exposing or endangering. 

*COMMISSION, n.
1.  The act of committing, doing, performing, or perpetrating; as the commission of a crime.
2.  The act of committing or sending to; the act of entrusting, as a charge or duty.  Hence,
3.  The thing committed, entrusted or delivered; letters patent, or any writing from proper authority, given to a person as his warrant for exercising certain powers, or the performance of any duty, whether civil, ecclesiastical, or military.  Hence,
4.  Charge; order; mandate; authority given.
He bore his great commission in his look.
5.  By a metonymy, a number of persons joined in an office or trust.
6.  The state of that which is entrusted, as the great seal was put into commission; or the state of being authorized to act or perform service, as a ship is put into commission.
7.  In commerce, the state of acting under authority in the purchase and sale of goods for another.  To trade or do business on commission, is to buy or sell for another by this authority.  Hence,
8.  The allowance made to a factor or commission-merchant for transacting business, which is a certain rate per cent. of the value of the goods bought or sold.
Commission of bankruptcy, is a commission issuing from the Chancellor in Great Britain, and in other countries, from some proper authority, appointing and empowering certain persons to examine into the facts relative to an alleged bankruptcy, and to secure the bankrupts lands and effects for the creditors.
Commission of lunacy, is a commission issuing from the court of chancery, to authorize an inquiry whether a person is a lunatic or not.
Commission-officer, in the army or navy, is an officer who has a commission, in distinction from subaltern officers.

*COVENANT, n. [L, to come; a coming together; a meeting or agreement of minds.]
1. A mutual consent or agreement of two or more persons, to do or to forbear some act or thing; a contract; stipulation. A covenant is created by deed in writing, sealed and executed; or it may be implied in the contract.
2. A writing containing the terms of agreement or contract between parties; or the clause of agreement in a deed containing the covenant.
3. In theology, the covenant of works, is that implied in the commands, prohibitions, and promises of God; the promise of God to man, that mans perfect obedience should entitle him to happiness. This do, and live; that do, and die.
The covenant of redemption, is the mutual agreement between the Father and Son, respecting the redemption of sinners by Christ.
The covenant of grace, is that by which God engages to bestow salvation on man, upon the condition that man shall believe in Christ and yield obedience to the terms of the gospel.
4. In church affairs, a solemn agreement between the members of a church, that they will walk together according to the precepts of the gospel, in brotherly affection.
COVENANT, v.i. To enter into a formal agreement; to stipulate; to bind ones self by contract. A covenants with B to convey to him a certain estate. When the terms are expressed ti has for before the thing or price.
They covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver. Matthew 26.
COVENANT, v.t. To grant or promise by covenant.

PROM'ISE, n. [L. promissum, from promitto, to send before or forward; pro and mitto, to send.]
1.  In a general sense, a declaration, written or verbal, made by one person to another, which binds the person who makes it, either in honor, conscience or law, to do or forbear a certain act specified; a declaration which gives to the person to whom it is made, a right to expect or to claim the performance or forbearance of the act.  The promise of a visit to my neighbor, gives him a right to expect it, and I am bound in honor and civility to perform the promise.  Of such a promise human laws have no cognizance; but the fulfillment of it is one of the minor moralities, which civility, kindness and strict integrity require to be observed.
2.  In law, a declaration, verbal or written, made by one person to another for a good or valuable consideration, in the nature of a covenant, by which the promiser binds himself, and as the case may be, his legal representatives, to do or forbear some act; and gives to the promisee a legal right to demand and enforce a fulfillment.
3.  A binding declaration of something to be done or given for another's benefit; as the promise of a grant of land.  A promise may be absolute or conditional; lawful or unlawful; express or implied. An absolute promise must be fulfilled at all events.  The obligation to fulfill a conditional promise depends on the performance of the condition. An unlawful promise is not binding, because it is void; for it is incompatible with a prior paramount obligation of obedience to the laws.  An express promise, is one expressed in words or writing.  An implied promise, is one which reason and justice dictate.  If I hire a man to perform a day's labor, without any declaration that I will pay him, the law presumes a promise on my part that I will give him a reasonable reward, and will enforce much implied promise.
4.  Hopes; expectation, or that which affords expectation of future distinction; as a youth of great promise.
 My native country was full of youthful promise.
5.  That which is promised; fulfillment or grant of what is promised.
 He commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father. Acts.1.
6.  In Scripture,the promise of God is the declaration or assurance which God has given in his word of bestowing blessings on his people.  Such assurance resting on the perfect justice,power, benevolence and immutable veracity of God, cannot fail of performance.
 The Lord is not slack concerning his promises. 2 Pet.3.
PROM'ISE, v.t.  To make a declaration to another, which binds the promiser in honor, conscience or law, to do or forbear some act; as, to promise a visit to a friend; to promise a cessation of hostilities; to promise the payment of money.
1.  To afford reason to expect; as, the year promises a good harvest.
2.  To make declaration or give assurance of some benefit to be conferred; to pledge or engage to bestow.
 The proprietors promised large tracts of land.
PROM'ISE, v.i.  To assure one by a promise or binding declaration.  The man promises fair; let us forgive him.
1.  To afford hopes or expectations; to give ground to expect good. The youth promises to be an eminent man; the wheat promises to be a good crop; the weather promises to be pleasant.
2.  In popular use, this verb sometimes threatens or assures of evil.  The rogue shall be punished, I promise you.
 Will not the ladies be afraid of the lion?
 --I fear it, I promise you.
In the latter example, promise is equivalent to declare; 'I declare to you.'
3.  To promise one's self, to be assured or to have strong confidence.
 I dare promise myself you will attest the truth of all I have advanced.

Jeremiah 31:31-34 KJV
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD,
that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
[32] Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt;
which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:
[33] But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel;
After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts,
and write it in their hearts;
and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
[34] And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour,
and every man his brother, saying,
Know the LORD: for they shall all know Me,
from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD:
for I will forgive their iniquity,
and I will remember their sin no more.

1 John 2:26-29 KJV
These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you.
[27] But the anointing which ye have received of Him abideth in you,
and ye need not that any man teach you:
but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things,
and is truth,
and is no lie,
and even as it hath taught you,
ye shall abide in Him.
[28] And now, little children, abide in Him;
that, when He shall appear,
we may have confidence,
and not be ashamed before Him at His coming.
[29] If ye know that He is righteous,
ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of Him.

2 Corinthians 5:14-21 KJV
For the love of Christ constraineth us;
because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:
[15] And that he died for all,
that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves,
but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
[16] Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh:
yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.
[17] Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature:
old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
[18] And all things are of God,
who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ,
and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
[19] To wit, that God was in Christ,
reconciling the world unto himself,
not imputing their trespasses unto them;
and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
[20] Now then we are ambassadors for Christ,
as though God did beseech you by us:
we pray you in Christ's stead,
be ye reconciled to God.
[21] For He hath made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin;
that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him.

*Definitions taken from Noah Webster 1828 App.

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