31 Look, the days are coming," declares* Yahweh, "and I will make* a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, 32 not like the covenant that I made* with their ancestors* on the day of my grasping them* by their hand, bringing them out from the land of Egypt, my covenant that they themselves broke, though I myself was a master over them," declares* Yahweh. 33 "But this is the covenant that I will make* with the house of Israel after those days," declares* Yahweh: "I will put my law in their inward parts and on their hearts* I will write it, and I will be to them God, and they themselves will be to me people. 34 And they will no longer teach each one his neighbor, or each one his brother, saying,* ‘Know Yahweh,’ for all of them will know me, from their smallest* and up to their greatest,"* declares* Yahweh, "for I will forgive their iniquity and their sin I will no longer remember."

6 But now he has attained a more excellent ministry, by as much as he is also mediator of a better covenant which has been enacted upon better promises. 7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, occasion would not have been sought for a second.

13 In calling it new, he has declared the former to be old. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is near to disappearing.

22 by so much more* Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant.

20 And in the same way the cup after they had eaten, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood which is poured out for you.

27 And after* taking the cup and giving thanks he gave it* to them, saying, "Drink from 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, cleanse our consciences from dead works to serve the living God?

15 And because of this, he is the mediator of a new covenant, in order that, because* a death has taken place for the redemption of transgressions committed during the first covenant, those who are the called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

16 For where there is a will, it is a necessity for the death of the one who made the will to be established. 17 For a will is in force concerning those who are dead, since it is never in force when the one who made the will is alive. 18 Therefore not even the first covenant was ratified without blood. 19 For when* every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves* with water and scarlet wool and hyssop and sprinkled both the scroll itself and all the people, 20 saying,

"This is the blood of the covenant that God has commanded for you."*

1 For the law, possessing a shadow of the good things that are about to come, not the form of things itself, is never able year by year* by means of the same sacrifices which they offer without interruption to make perfect those who draw near. 2 For otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, because the ones who worship, having been purified once and for all, would no longer have any consciousness of sins? 3 But in them there is a reminder of sins year by 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 things have passed away; behold, new things have come. 18 And all these things are from God, who has reconciled us to himself through Christ, and who has given us the ministry of reconciliation, 19 namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. 20 Therefore we are ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as if* God were imploring you through us. We beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. 21 He made the one who did not know sin to be sin on our behalf, in order that we could become the righteousness of God in him.

4 Now we possess such confidence through Christ toward God. 5 Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God, 6 who also makes us adequate as servants 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 formerly you, the Gentiles in the flesh, the so-called uncircumcision by the so-called circumcision in the flesh, made by hands, 12 that you were at that time apart from Christ, alienated from the citizenship of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, not having hope, and without God in the world. 13 But now in Christ Jesus you, the ones who once were far away, have become 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.