Nova Aliança

11 Remember that you were once people of the nations in the flesh. You are called uncircumcision by that which is called circumcision, in the flesh, made by human hands.

12 You were separate from Christ at that time, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel. You were strangers from the covenants of the promise. You had no hope and were without God in the world.

13 You were once far off but now with Christ Jesus, the blood of Christ has brought you near.

16 A will is used for a person who is dead. It becomes effective only when the person dies.

17 A will is in force after a person dies. Otherwise it is not in effect at all while the one who provided it lives.

18 The first covenant was dedicated with blood.

19 When Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the Law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people,

20 He said: »This is the blood of the covenant that God has presented to you.«

17 If any man is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old things have passed away. Behold, they have become new.

18 All things are from God who reconciled us to himself through Christ. He gave the ministry of reconciliation to us.

19 God was reconciling the world to himself through Christ. He was not imputing their trespasses against them, for he had committed the word of reconciliation to us.

20 We are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making entreaty through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ that you be reconciled to God.

21 He made the one who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf. That way we might become the righteousness of God in him.

4 We have such confidence through Christ toward God.

5 We are not adequate by ourselves to account for anything. Our adequacy is from God.

6 He also made us sufficient as ministers of a new covenant. This is a covenant not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

31 »The time is coming,« proclaims Jehovah, »when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.

32 »It will not be like the promise that I made to their ancestors when I took them by the hand and brought them out of Egypt. They rejected that promise, although I was a husband to them,« says Jehovah.

33 »This is the covenant agreement that I will make with Israel after those days,« declares Jehovah. »I will put my teachings Law inside them. I will write those teachings Law on their hearts innermanmindwillconscienceunderstanding. I will be their God, and they will be my people.«

34 »No longer will each person teach his neighbors or his relatives by saying: Know Jehovah. »All of them, from the least important to the most important, will know me,« declares Jehovah. »I will forgive their wickedness and I will no longer hold remember their sins against them.«

14 The blood of Christ did even more. Through the eternal Spirit he offered himself without blemish to God and cleansed your conscience from dead works. Now we can serve worship the living God.

15 For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant. A death has taken place for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant. Those called may receive the promise of everlasting inheritance.

1 The Law is a shadow of the good things to come. It is not the actual things. The continual yearly sacrifices can never make those who worship perfect.

2 If it could, it would cease to be offered. Once the worshipers were cleansed they would have no awareness of sin anymore.

3 These sacrifices are an annual reminder of sin.

4 It is not possible for the blood of bulls and of goats to take away sins.

10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation atonementsacrificial payment for our sins.

27 Then he took a cup and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying: »Drink it all.«

28 »This is representsmeansexemplifies my blood of the covenant, poured out for many for forgiveness of sins.

13 By calling this covenant »new,« he has made the first one old obsolete. That which grows old and aged will soon disappear.

22 Jesus became the guarantee of a better covenant.

20 Then he took the cup saying: « This represents the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.

6 Jesus has obtained a more excellent ministry. The covenant that he arranged between God and his people is a better one, because it is based on promises of better things.

7 If there had been nothing wrong with the first covenant, there would not have been a need for a second one.