"Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord,
when I will make a new covenant with
the house
of Israel and with the house of Judah. Not
according to the covenant that I made with their
fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to
lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant
which they broke, though I was a husband to them …
Jeremiah 31: 31 – 32 (NKJV)
For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place
would have been sought for a second. Because finding fault
with them, He says: "Behold, the days are coming, says the
Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of
Israel and with the house of Judah.
Not according to the
covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I
took them by
the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt;
because they did not continue in My covenant,
and I
disregarded them, says the Lord.
For this is the covenant
that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,
says the Lord:
I will put My laws in their mind and write
them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they
shall be My people. None of them shall teach his neighbor,
and none his brother, saying, 'Know
the Lord,' for all shall
know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them.
For
I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins
and their lawless deeds I will
remember no more.
"In that He
says, "A new covenant," He has made the first obsolete. Now
what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish
away.” Hebrews 8 : 7-13 (NKJV)
Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against
us, which was contrary to us, and
took it out of the way,
nailing it to his cross;
And having spoiled principalities
and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over
them in it.
Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in
drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or
of the sabbath days: Which are a shadow of things to come;
but the body is of Christ. Colossians 2:14-17 (KJV) |