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15 For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, because a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions under the first covenant.[a](A)

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  1. 9.15 The Greek word used here means both covenant and will

30 And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.(A)

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24 they are now justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,(A) 25 whom God put forward as a sacrifice of atonement[a] by his blood, effective through faith. He did this to demonstrate his righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over the sins previously committed;(B) 26 it was to demonstrate at the present time his own righteousness, so that he is righteous and he justifies the one who has the faith of Jesus.[b]

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  1. 3.25 Or a place of atonement
  2. 3.26 Or has faith in Jesus

28 We know that all things work together[a] for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose.(A)

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  1. 8.28 Other ancient authorities read God makes all things work together or in all things God works

12 he entered once for all into the holy place, not with the blood of goats and calves but with his own blood, thus obtaining eternal redemption.(A)

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36 For you need endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what was promised.(A)

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For

there is one God;
    there is also one mediator between God and humankind,
Christ Jesus, himself human,(A)

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24 and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.(A)

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22 accordingly Jesus has also become the guarantor of a better covenant.(A)

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18 For Christ also suffered[a] for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, in order to bring you[b] to God. He was put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,(A)

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  1. 3.18 Other ancient authorities read died
  2. 3.18 Other ancient authorities read us

Benediction

20 Now may the God of peace, who brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant,(A)

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For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.(A)

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39 Yet all these, though they were commended for their faith, did not receive what was promised, 40 since God had provided something better so that they would not, apart from us, be made perfect.(A)

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28 so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.(A)

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The Certainty of God’s Promise

13 When God made a promise to Abraham, because he had no one greater by whom to swear, he swore by himself,(A)

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Moses a Servant, Christ a Son

Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, partners in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession,(A)

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14 Since, therefore, the children share flesh and blood, he himself likewise shared the same things, so that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil,(A)

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They sing a new song:

“You are worthy to take the scroll
    and to break its seals,
for you were slaughtered and by your blood you ransomed for God
    saints from[a] every tribe and language and people and nation;(A)

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  1. 5.9 Gk ransomed for God from

13 In speaking of a new covenant, he has made the first one obsolete, and what is obsolete and growing old will soon disappear.(A)

The Earthly and the Heavenly Sanctuaries

Now[a] the first covenant had regulations for worship and an earthly sanctuary.

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  1. 9.1 Other ancient authorities add even

so that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.(A)

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in the hope of eternal life that God, who never lies, promised before the ages began(A)

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10 Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, so that they may also obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory.(A)

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28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one will snatch them out of my hand.(A)

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29 And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or[a] children or fields for my name’s sake will receive a hundredfold[b] and will inherit eternal life.

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  1. 19.29 Other ancient authorities lack wife or
  2. 19.29 Other ancient authorities read manifold

and they sing a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and before the elders. No one could learn that song except the one hundred forty-four thousand who have been redeemed from the earth. It is these who have not defiled themselves with women, for they are virgins; these follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They have been redeemed from humankind as first fruits for God and the Lamb,(A)

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