31 *"Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make *a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, 32 not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when *I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, *though I was their husband, declares the Lord. 33 *For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: *I will put my law within them, and I will write it *on their hearts. *And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 34 And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ *for they shall all know me, *from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For *I will forgive their iniquity, and *I will remember their sin no more."

6 But as it is, Christ* has obtained a ministry that is *as much more excellent than the old as *the covenant *he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises. 7 *For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion to look for a second.

13 In speaking of a new covenant, he makes the first one obsolete. And *what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.

22 This makes Jesus the guarantor of *a better covenant.

20 And likewise the cup after they had eaten, saying, *"This cup that is poured out for you is *the new *covenant in my blood.*

27 And he took a cup, and when he *had given thanks he gave it to them, saying, "Drink of it, all of you,28 for *this is my *blood of the*covenant, which is poured out for *many *for the forgiveness of sins.

14 how much more will *the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit *offered himself without blemish to God, *purify our* conscience *from dead works *to serve the living God.

15 Therefore he is *the mediator of a new covenant, so that *those who are called may *receive the promised eternal inheritance, *since a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.*

16 For where a will is involved, the death of the one who made it must be established. 17 For *a will takes effect only at death, since it is not in force as long as the one who made it is alive. 18 Therefore not even the first covenant was inaugurated *without blood. 19 For when every commandment of the law had been declared by Moses to all the people, he took *the blood of calves and goats, *with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, 20 saying, *"This is the blood of the covenant that God commanded for you."

1 For since the law has but *a shadow *of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, *it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near. 2 Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have any consciousness of sins? 3 But *in these sacrifices *there is a reminder of sins every year. 4 For *it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

17 Therefore, if anyone is *in Christ, he is *a new creation.**The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. 18 All this is from God, *who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us *the ministry of reconciliation; 19 that is, in Christ God was reconciling* the world to himself, *not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us *the message of reconciliation. 20 Therefore, *we are ambassadors for Christ, *God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. 21 *For our sake he made him to be sin *who knew no sin, so that in him we might become *the righteousness of God.

4 *Such is the confidence that we have through Christ toward God. 5 *Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but *our sufficiency is from God, 6 who has made us sufficient to be *ministers of *a new covenant, not of *the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but *the Spirit gives life.

11 Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called "the uncircumcision" by what is called *the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands— 12 remember *that you were at that time separated from Christ, *alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to *the covenants of promise, *having no hope and without God in the world. 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were *far off have been brought near *by the blood of Christ.

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