Covenants

Wherein God, being minded to show more abundantly unto the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath;

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.

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,

For ye are not come unto a mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, — read the full passage →

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us:

For there is one God, one mediator also between God and men, himself man, Christ Jesus,

Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, seeing there are those who offer the gifts according to the law; — read the full passage →

Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers In the day that I took them by the hand to lead them forth out of the land of Egypt; For they continued not in my covenant, And I regarded them not, saith the Lord.

For when God made promise to Abraham, since he could swear by none greater, he sware by himself,

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

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

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

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.