The Blood Covenant

for this is my blood of the new covenant, that for many is being poured out--to remission of sins;

In like manner, also, the cup after the supping, saying, `This cup <FI>is<Fi> the new covenant in my blood, that for you is being poured forth.

for the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar, to make atonement for your souls; for it <FI>is<Fi> the blood which maketh atonement for the soul.

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,

and with blood almost all things are purified according to the law, and apart from blood-shedding forgiveness doth not come.

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,

and if in the light we may walk, as He is in the light--we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son doth cleanse us from every sin;

for it is impossible for blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

of how much sorer punishment shall he be counted worthy who the Son of God did trample on, and the blood of the covenant did count a common thing, in which he was sanctified, and to the Spirit of the grace did despite?

After these things hath the word of Jehovah been unto Abram in a vision, saying, `Fear not, Abram, I <FI>am<Fi> a shield to thee, thy reward <FI>is<Fi> exceeding great.' — read the full passage →

neither through blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, did enter in once into the holy places, age-during redemption having obtained;

and to a mediator of a new covenant--Jesus, and to blood of sprinkling, speaking better things than that of Abel!

how much more shall the blood of the Christ (who through the age-during Spirit did offer himself unblemished to God) purify your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

And Moses taketh the blood, and sprinkleth on the people, and saith, `Lo, the blood of the covenant which Jehovah hath made with you, concerning all these things.'

for if the blood of bulls, and goats, and ashes of an heifer, sprinkling those defiled, doth sanctify to the purifying of the flesh, — read the full passage →

Lo, days are coming, an affirmation of Jehovah, And I have made with the house of Israel And with the house of Judah a new covenant, — read the full passage →

and now he hath obtained a more excellent service, how much also of a better covenant is he mediator, which on better promises hath been sanctioned,

In like manner also the cup after the supping, saying, `This cup is the new covenant in my blood; this do ye, as often as ye may drink <FI>it<Fi> --to the remembrance of me;'

whom God did set forth a mercy seat, through the faith in his blood, for the shewing forth of His righteousness, because of the passing over of the bygone sins in the forbearance of God--

by so much of a better covenant hath Jesus become surety,

For finding fault, He saith to them, `Lo, days come, saith the Lord, and I will complete with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah, a new covenant, — read the full passage →

For it was becoming to Him, because of whom <FI>are<Fi> the all things, and through whom <FI>are<Fi> the all things, many sons to glory bringing, the author of their salvation through sufferings to make perfect,

For this <FI>is<Fi> the covenant that I make, With the house of Israel, after those days, An affirmation of Jehovah, I have given My law in their inward part, And on their heart I do write it, And I have been to them for God, And they are to me for a people.

and now, in Christ Jesus, ye being once afar off became nigh in the blood of the Christ,

It had, indeed, then (even the first tabernacle) ordinances of service, also a worldly sanctuary, — read the full passage →

and He declareth to you His covenant, which He hath commanded you to do, the Ten Matters, and He writeth them upon two tables of stone.

in the saying `new,' He hath made the first old, and what doth become obsolete and is old <FI>is<Fi> nigh disappearing.

And Jehovah saith unto Abram, `Go for thyself, from thy land, and from thy kindred, and from the house of thy father, unto the land which I shew thee. — read the full passage →

For finding fault, He saith to them, `Lo, days come, saith the Lord, and I will complete with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah, a new covenant,

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

whence not even the first apart from blood hath been initiated,

`And I have given the men who are transgressing My covenant, who have not established the words of the covenant that they have made before Me, by the calf, that they have cut in two, and pass through between its pieces--

whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man is his blood shed: for in the image of God hath He made man.

for the wages of the sin <FI>is<Fi> death, and the gift of God <FI>is<Fi> life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.

and they did overcome him because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony, and they did not love their life--unto death;

And he hath believed in Jehovah, and He reckoneth it to him--righteousness.

for him who did not know sin, in our behalf He did make sin, that we may become the righteousness of God in him.

`The thief doth not come, except that he may steal, and kill, and destroy; I came that they may have life, and may have <FI>it<Fi> abundantly.

And God blesseth Noah, and his sons, and saith to them, `Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth; — read the full passage →

And it cometh to pass--the sun hath gone in, and thick darkness hath been--and lo, a furnace of smoke, and a lamp of fire, which hath passed over between those pieces.

The law of Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> perfect, refreshing the soul, The testimonies of Jehovah <FI>are<Fi> stedfast, Making wise the simple,

And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Write for thyself these words, for, according to the tenor of these words I have made with thee a covenant, and with Israel.' — read the full passage →

who our sins himself did bear in his body, upon the tree, that to the sins having died, to the righteousness we may live; by whose stripes ye were healed,

in whom we have the redemption through his blood, the remission of the trespasses, according to the riches of His grace,

And this is the message that we have heard from Him, and announce to you, that God is light, and darkness in Him is not at all; — read the full passage →

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

Wherefore, also Jesus--that he might sanctify through <FI>his<Fi> own blood the people--without the gate did suffer;

may we draw near with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, having the hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having the body bathed with pure water;

upon hope of life age-during, which God, who doth not lie, did promise before times of ages,

And He saith unto him, `Take for Me a heifer of three years, and a she-goat of three years, and a ram of three years, and a turtle-dove, and a young bird;' — read the full passage →

This one is he who did come through water and blood--Jesus the Christ, not in the water only, but in the water and the blood; and the Spirit it is that is testifying, because the Spirit is the truth,

In faith died all these, not having received the promises, but from afar having seen them, and having been persuaded, and having saluted <FI>them<Fi> , and having confessed that strangers and sojourners they are upon the earth, — read the full passage →

wherefore it did behove him in all things to be made like to the brethren, that he might become a kind and stedfast chief-priest in the things with God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people, — read the full passage →

And Moses writeth all the words of Jehovah, and riseth early in the morning, and buildeth an altar under the hill, and twelve standing pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel;

That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we did behold, and our hands did handle, concerning the Word of the Life-- — read the full passage →

and the old world did not spare, but the eighth person, Noah, of righteousness a preacher, did keep, a flood on the world of the impious having brought,

Having, therefore, brethren, boldness for the entrance into the holy places, in the blood of Jesus, — read the full passage →

for not into holy places made with hands did the Christ enter--figures of the true--but into the heaven itself, now to be manifested in the presence of God for us; — read the full passage →

because in him it did please all the fulness to tabernacle, — read the full passage →

to the saints in Colossae, and to the faithful brethren in Christ: Grace to you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ!

`Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit made you overseers, to feed the assembly of God that He acquired through His own blood,

and I have said to him, `Sir, thou hast known;' and he said to me, `These are those who are coming out of the great tribulation, and they did wash their robes, and they made their robes white in the blood of the Lamb;

and if the ministration of the death, in letters, engraved in stones, came in glory, so that the sons of Israel were not able to look stedfastly to the face of Moses, because of the glory of his face--which was being made useless,

Jesus, therefore, said to them, `Verily, verily, I say to you, If ye may not eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and may not drink his blood, ye have no life in yourselves;

John answered and said, `A man is not able to receive anything, if it may not have been given him from the heaven;

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God; — read the full passage →

And having taken bread, having given thanks, he brake and gave to them, saying, `This is my body, that for you is being given, this do ye--to remembrance of me.' — read the full passage →

`And I have given the men who are transgressing My covenant, who have not established the words of the covenant that they have made before Me, by the calf, that they have cut in two, and pass through between its pieces-- — read the full passage →

`Only, be sure not to eat the blood, for the blood <FI>is<Fi> the life, and thou dost not eat the life with the flesh;

this <FI>is<Fi> My covenant which ye keep between Me and you, and thy seed after thee: Every male of you <FI>is<Fi> to be circumcised; — read the full passage →

much more, then, having been declared righteous now in his blood, we shall be saved through him from the wrath;

And Moses writeth all the words of Jehovah, and riseth early in the morning, and buildeth an altar under the hill, and twelve standing pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel; — read the full passage →

and they that are coming in, male and female of all flesh, have come in as God hath commanded him, and Jehovah doth close <FI>it<Fi> for him.

Seeing, then, the children have partaken of flesh and blood, he himself also in like manner did take part of the same, that through death he might destroy him having the power of death--that is, the devil--

And they came to the other side of the sea, to the region of the Gadarenes, — read the full passage →

and to Abraham were the promises spoken, and to his seed; He doth not say, `And to seeds,' as of many, but as of one, `And to thy seed,' which is Christ;

but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.

And ye have said, `Wherefore?' Because Jehovah hath testified between thee And the wife of thy youth, That thou hast dealt treacherously against her, And she thy companion, and thy covenant-wife.

And Abram is a son of ninety and nine years, and Jehovah appeareth unto Abram, and saith unto him, `I <FI>am<Fi> God Almighty, walk habitually before Me, and be thou perfect; — read the full passage →

and my God shall supply all your need, according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus;

And Jehovah God doth make to the man and to his wife coats of skin, and doth clothe them.

And there came war in the heaven; Michael and his messengers did war against the dragon, and the dragon did war, and his messengers,

having a golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid all round about with gold, in which <FI>is<Fi> the golden pot having the manna, and the rod of Aaron that budded, and the tables of the covenant,

and he--he is a propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world,

and when the fulness of time did come, God sent forth His Son, come of a woman, come under law, — read the full passage →

that if thou mayest confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and mayest believe in thy heart that God did raise him out of the dead, thou shalt be saved, — read the full passage →

`Father, those whom Thou hast given to me, I will that where I am they also may be with me, that they may behold my glory that Thou didst give to me, because Thou didst love me before the foundation of the world.

and having taken the cup, and having given thanks, he gave to them, saying, `Drink ye of it--all; — read the full passage →

I have made a covenant for My chosen, I have sworn to David My servant: — read the full passage →

And Abram is a son of ninety and nine years, and Jehovah appeareth unto Abram, and saith unto him, `I <FI>am<Fi> God Almighty, walk habitually before Me, and be thou perfect; — read the full passage →

and enmity I put between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; he doth bruise thee--the head, and thou dost bruise him--the heel.'

And Jehovah God layeth a charge on the man, saying, `Of every tree of the garden eating thou dost eat; — read the full passage →

`I ask in regard to them; not in regard to the world do I ask, but in regard to those whom Thou hast given to me, because Thine they are,

And he is there with Jehovah forty days and forty nights; bread he hath not eaten, and water he hath not drunk; and he writeth on the tables the matters of the covenant--the ten matters.

For the law having a shadow of the coming good things--not the very image of the matters, every year, by the same sacrifices that they offer continually, is never able to make perfect those coming near, — read the full passage →

for ye were bought with a price; glorify, then, God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.

`I--lo, My covenant <FI>is<Fi> with thee, and thou hast become father of a multitude of nations;

and did make us kings and priests to his God and Father, to him <FI>is<Fi> the glory and the power to the ages of the ages! Amen.

`And thou hast known that Jehovah thy God He <FI>is<Fi> God, the faithful God, keeping the covenant, and the kindness, to those loving Him, and to those keeping His commands--to a thousand generations,