in which God, more abundantly willing to shew to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, did interpose by an oath,
Brethren, as a man I say <FI>it<Fi> , even of man a confirmed covenant no one doth make void or doth add to,
And the God of the peace, who did bring up out of the dead the great shepherd of the sheep--in the blood of an age-during covenant--our Lord Jesus,
For ye came not near to the mount touched and scorched with fire, and to blackness, and darkness, and tempest, — read the full passage →
that through two immutable things, in which <FI>it is<Fi> impossible for God to lie, a strong comfort we may have who did flee for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before <FI>us<Fi> ,
for one <FI>is<Fi> God, one also <FI>is<Fi> mediator of God and of men, the man Christ Jesus,
for if, indeed, he were upon earth, he would not be a priest--(there being the priests who are offering according to the law, the gifts, — read the full passage →
not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers, in the day of My taking <FI>them<Fi> by their hand, to bring them out of the land of Egypt--because they did not remain in My covenant, and I did not regard them, saith the Lord, --
For to Abraham God, having made promise, seeing He was able to swear by no greater, did swear by Himself,
nor because they are seed of Abraham <FI>are<Fi> all children, but--`in Isaac shall a seed be called to thee;' — read the full passage →
O thoughtless Galatians, who did bewitch you, not to obey the truth--before whose eyes Jesus Christ was described before among you crucified? — read the full passage →
and he said to them, `This is my blood of the new covenant, which for many is being poured out;
And because of this, of a new covenant he is mediator, that, death having come, for redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, those called may receive the promise of the age-during inheritance,
Topical index adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0). Verse text: YLT.