Covenant

And the cup in like manner after supper, saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood, even that which is poured out for you.

And for this cause he is the mediator of a new covenant, that a death having taken place for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, they that have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

But now hath he obtained a ministry the more excellent, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which hath been enacted upon better promises.

Now the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, even our Lord Jesus, — read the full passage →

for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many unto remission of sins.

In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. But that which is becoming old and waxeth aged is nigh unto vanishing away.

And he said unto them, This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many.

Now the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, even our Lord Jesus,

who also made us sufficient as ministers of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

In like manner also the cup, after supper, saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood: this do, as often as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.

by so much also hath Jesus become the surety of a better covenant.

Now to Abraham were the promises spoken, and to his seed. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.

and he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in uncircumcision: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might be reckoned unto them;

For finding fault with them, he saith, 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;

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John;

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life.

and to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaketh better than that of Abel.

For if that first covenant had been faultless, then would no place have been sought for a second. — read the full passage →

And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so Abraham begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac begat Jacob, and Jacob the twelve patriarchs.

Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? or need we, as do some, epistles of commendation to you or from you? — read the full passage →

Brethren, I speak after the manner of men: Though it be but a man’s covenant, yet when it hath been confirmed, no one maketh it void, or addeth thereto.

And there was opened the temple of God that is in heaven; and there was seen in his temple the ark of his covenant; and there followed lightnings, and voices, and thunders, and an earthquake, and great hail.

Think not that I came to destroy the law or the prophets: I came not to destroy, but to fulfil.

Now in the things which we are saying the chief pointis this: We have such a high priest, who sat down on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, — read the full passage →

who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love; — read the full passage →

because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can it be:

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

For the wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

To show mercy towards our fathers, And to remember his holy covenant;

For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel After those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, And on their heart also will I write them: And I will be to them a God, And they shall be to me a people:

that ye were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

Now this I say: A covenant confirmed beforehand by God, the law, which came four hundred and thirty years after, doth not disannul, so as to make the promise of none effect.

This is the covenant that I will make with them After those days, saith the Lord: I will put my laws on their heart, And upon their mind also will I write them; then saith he,

And Peter said unto them, Repent ye, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ unto the remission of your sins; and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye tithe mint and anise and cummin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law, justice, and mercy, and faith: but these ye ought to have done, and not to have left the other undone.

For I will be merciful to their iniquities, And their sins will I remember no more.

For if that first covenant had been faultless, then would no place have been sought for a second. — read the full passage →

For finding fault with them, he saith, 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; — read the full passage →

For if that first covenant had been faultless, then would no place have been sought for a second.

neither, because they are Abraham’s seed, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. — read the full passage →

But if the ministration of death, written, and engraven on stones, came with glory, so that the children of Israel could not look stedfastly upon the face of Moses for the glory of his face; which glory was passing away:

Ye are the sons of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with your fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

And this is my covenant unto them, When I shall take away their sins.

And as many as shall walk by this rule, peace be upon them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.

For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under law, but under grace.

But as many as received him, to them gave he the right to become children of God, even to them that believe on his name:

But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that wherein we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

Wherefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old things are passed away; behold, they are become new.

O foolish Galatians, who did bewitch you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly set forth crucified? — read the full passage →

On the morrow he seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold, the Lamb of God, that taketh away the sin of the world!

nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption.

for by grace have ye been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; — read the full passage →

For I received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which he was betrayed took bread; — read the full passage →

But this I confess unto thee, that after the Way which they call a sect, so serve I the God of our fathers, believing all things which are according to the law, and which are written in the prophets;

I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ liveth in me: and that life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.