covenants
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Covenants require extralegal agreements, or traditions of trust, even among their competing participants, as much as they require laws that are otherwise too easily undercut by their enforcers.
From Salon • Mar. 31, 2024
The Word of Wisdom is a section of the Doctrine and Covenants, one of the church’s four volumes of scripture.
From Washington Post • Aug. 16, 2019
The third law of nature is: “men performe their Covenants made.”
From The Guardian • Nov. 20, 2017
Mr. Lee worked as a manager at a community college in Taipei and was a volunteer for Covenants Watch, an alliance of human rights organizations in Taiwan.
From New York Times • May 29, 2017
Even in those ordinary cases in which, on Covenanting, communion with God is enjoyed, He Covenants with them.
From The Ordinance of Covenanting by Cunningham, John