Bible Verses About The Covenant

the oath he swore before Avraham avinu

to grant us that we, freed from our enemies, would serve him without fear,

in holiness and righteousness before him all our days.

You, child, will be called a prophet of Ha`Elyon; you will go before the Lord to prepare his way

by spreading the knowledge among his people that deliverance comes by having sins forgiven

through our God's most tender mercy, which causes the Sunrise to visit us from Heaven,

to shine on those in darkness, living in the shadow of death, and to guide our feet into the paths of peace."

For God does find fault with the people when he says, “‘See! The days are coming,’ says Adonai, ‘when I will establish over the house of Isra’el and over the house of Y’hudah a new covenant.

“‘It will not be like the covenant which I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by their hand and led them forth out of the land of Egypt; because they, for their part, did not remain faithful to my covenant; so I, for my part, stopped concerning myself with them,’ says Adonai.

“‘For this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Isra’el after those days,’ says Adonai: ‘I will put my Torah in their minds and write it on their hearts; I will be their God, and they will be my people.

“‘None of them will teach his fellow-citizen or his brother, saying, “Know Adonai!” For all will know me, from the least of them to the greatest,

because I will be merciful toward their wickednesses and remember their sins no more.’”

But when the Messiah appeared as cohen gadol of the good things that are happening already, then, through the greater and more perfect Tent which is not man-made (that is, it is not of this created world),

he entered the Holiest Place once and for all. And he entered not by means of the blood of goats and calves, but by means of his own blood, thus setting people free forever.

For if sprinkling ceremonially unclean persons with the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer restores their outward purity;

then how much more the blood of the Messiah, who, through the eternal Spirit, offered himself to God as a sacrifice without blemish, will purify our conscience from works that lead to death, so that we can serve the living God!

For where there is a will, there must necessarily be produced evidence of its maker’s death,

since a will goes into effect only upon death; it never has force while its maker is still alive.

This is why the first covenant too was inaugurated with blood.

After Moshe had proclaimed every command of the Torah to all the people, he took the blood of the calves with some water and used scarlet wool and hyssop to sprinkle both the scroll itself and all the people;

and he said, “This is the blood of the covenant which God has ordained for you.”

Likewise, he sprinkled with the blood both the Tent and all the things used in its ceremonies.

In fact, according to the Torah, almost everything is purified with blood; indeed, without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.

Now this is how the copies of the heavenly things had to be purified, but the heavenly things themselves require better sacrifices than these.