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What does the Bible say about new covenant?

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The Bible teaches that the new covenant is God’s gracious promise, established by Jesus Christ, to forgive His people’s sins, write His law on their hearts, and bring them into true knowledge of Him. Jeremiah 31:31-34 foretells this covenant, unlike the old covenant broken by Israel. Jesus declared at the Last Supper that His blood is the blood of the new covenant, given for many (Luke 22:20; Mark 14:24; 1 Corinthians 11:25). Hebrews teaches that Christ is its mediator and that His better priesthood brings better promises (Hebrews 8:6; 9:15). By the Spirit, believers serve not merely by outward letter but with renewed hearts (2 Corinthians 3:6).

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  • Jeremiah 31:31-34

    [31] Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: [32] not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they broke, although I was a husband to them, says Yahweh. [33] But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says Yahweh: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people: [34] and they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know Yahweh; for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says Yahweh: for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin will I remember no more.

  • Hebrews 9:15

    For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, that those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

  • Luke 22:20

    Likewise, he took the cup after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.

  • Hebrews 8:13

    In that he says, "A new covenant," he has made the first old. But that which is becoming old and grows aged is near to vanishing away.

  • Hebrews 8:6

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

  • 2 Corinthians 3:6

    who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

  • Hebrews 8:7-8

    [7] For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second. [8] For finding fault with them, he said, "Behold, the days come," says the Lord, "That I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah;

  • 1 Corinthians 11:25

    In the same way he also took the cup, after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink, in memory of me."

  • Jeremiah 31:33

    But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says Yahweh: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people:

  • Mark 14:24

    He said to them, "This is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many.

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