11 So then, remember that at one time you were Gentiles by birth and were called "the uncircumcision" by what is called "the circumcision" made in the flesh by hands.
12 At that time you were without Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise. You had no hope and were in the world without God.
13 But now, in Christ Jesus, you who once were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ.
16 For where there is a will, the death of the one who made it must be established.
17 For a will is in force only when somebody has died, since it never takes effect as long as the one who made it is alive.
18 This is why even the first covenant was not put into effect without blood.
19 For after every commandment in the law had been spoken to all the people by Moses, he took the blood of calves and goats, together with some water, scarlet wool, and branches of hyssop, and sprinkled the scroll and all the people,
20 saying, "This is the blood of the covenant that God ordained for you."
17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. Old things have disappeared, and—look!—all things have become new!
18 All of this comes from God, who has reconciled us to himself through Christ and has given us the ministry of reconciliation.
19 For in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself by not counting their sins against them, and he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.
20 Therefore, we are Christ's representatives, as though God were pleading through us. We plead on Christ's behalf: "Be reconciled to God!"
21 God made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that we might become God's righteousness in him.
4 Such is the confidence that we have in God through Christ.
5 By ourselves we are not qualified to claim that anything comes from us. Rather, our credentials come from God,
6 who has also qualified us to be ministers of a new covenant, which is not written but spiritual, because the written text brings death, but the Spirit gives life.
14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from dead works so that we may serve the living God!
15 This is why he is the mediator of a new covenant; so that those who are called may receive the eternal inheritance promised them, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the offenses committed under the first covenant.
10 This is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
27 Then he took a cup, gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying,"Drink from it, all of you.
28 For this is my blood of the newcovenant that is being poured out for many people for the forgiveness of sins.
13 In speaking of a "new" covenant, he has made the first one obsolete, and what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear.
1 For the law, being only a reflection of the blessings to come and not their substance, can never, by the same sacrifices repeatedly offered year after year, make those who come near perfect.
2 Otherwise, would they not have stopped offering them, because the worshipers, cleansed once for all, would no longer be aware of any sins?
3 Instead, through those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins year after year,
4 for it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
22 In this way, Jesus has become the guarantor of a better covenant.
20 He did the same with the cup after supper, saying,"This cup is the new covenant in my blood, poured out for you.
6 However, Jesus has now obtained a ministry that is as superior to theirs as the covenant he mediates is founded on better promises.
7 For if the first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no need to look for a second one.