The New Covenant

³¹ “Look, the days are coming”^(A)—this is the Lord’s declaration—“when I will make a new covenant^(B) with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. ³² This one will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors on the day I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt—my covenant that they broke even though I am their master”^[a](C)—the Lord’s declaration. ³³ “Instead, this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days”—the Lord’s declaration. “I will put my teaching within them and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. ³⁴ No longer will one teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’^(D) for they will all know me, from the least to the greatest of them”^(E)—this is the Lord’s declaration. “For I will forgive their iniquity^(F) and never again remember their sin.

²⁵ In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, and said, “This cup is the new covenant^(A) in my blood.^(B) Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.”

⁶ He has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant,^(A) not of the letter,^(B) but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

²² Because of this oath, Jesus has also become the guarantee of a better covenant.^(A)

⁸ But finding fault with his people,^[a] he says:^[b]

Benediction and Farewell

²⁰ Now may the God of peace, who brought up from the dead our Lord Jesus—the great Shepherd of the sheep^(A)—through the blood of the everlasting covenant,^(B)