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148 Bible verses about the Covenant
The word "covenant" describes the agreements, commitments, and promises between God and His people. These covenants are a testament to God's unconditional love for humanity and His desire to redeem and restore us.
One of the most significant covenants in the Bible is God's covenant with Abraham. In Genesis 12, God makes a covenant with Abraham, promising to bless him and make him the father of many nations. This isn't just a specific covenant between God and Abraham; it extends to all his descendants.
But this isn't the only covenant we find in the Bible. Other notable covenants include God's covenant with Moses, established on Mount Sinai, where God gives the Ten Commandments and establishes the laws for the Israelites to follow. There's also God's covenant with David, in which God promises that an eternal king will come from David's lineage.
These covenants between God and humankind reveal His character, His faithfulness, and His desire for a close relationship with His creation. Through them, God shows His willingness to fulfill His promises and His commitment to being present in the lives of His people. Above all, they teach us that He doesn't go back on His word. God always keeps His promises because He cannot lie.
These covenants remind us that God is a covenant-keeping God, faithful to His promises and committed to those who choose to enter into covenant with Him. So, when you make a covenant with God, don't delay in keeping your word. He takes it very seriously, and He's the first to fulfill everything He's said He'll do for you and your family.
Know therefore that Jehovah thy God, he is God, the faithful God, who keepeth covenant and lovingkindness with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,
I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
And Jehovah, he it is that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed.
But the lovingkindness of Jehovah is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him,\par\tab And his righteousness unto children's children;To such as keep his covenant,\par\tab And to those that remember his precepts to do them.
And for this cause he is the mediator of a new covenant, that a death having taken place for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, they that have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.
Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be mine own possession from among all peoples: for all the earth is mine:
And Jehovah said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.
For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed; but my lovingkindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall my covenant of peace be removed, saith Jehovah that hath mercy on thee.
But now hath he obtained a ministry the more excellent, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which hath been enacted upon better promises.
Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do.
to love Jehovah thy God, to obey his voice, and to cleave unto him; for he is thy life, and the length of thy days; that thou mayest dwell in the land which Jehovah sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
And the cup in like manner after supper, saying, {\cf6 This cup is the new covenant in my blood, {\i even} that which is poured out for you.
So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even the ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.
Verily my house is not so with God; Yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, Ordered in all things, and sure: For it is all my salvation, and all my desire, Although he maketh it not to grow.
And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of the flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
And he was there with Jehovah forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
And he took a cup, and gave thanks, and gave to them, saying, {\cf6 Drink ye all of it;for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many unto remission of sins.
Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
He hath remembered his covenant for ever,\par\tab The word which he commanded to a thousand generations,{\i The covenant} which he made with Abraham,\par\tab And his oath unto Isaac,
He hath given food unto them that fear him:\par\tab He will ever be mindful of his covenant.
And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the birds of the heavens, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the land, and will make them to lie down safely.
He showeth his word unto Jacob,\par\tab His statutes and his ordinances unto Israel.He hath not dealt so with any nation;\par\tab And as for his ordinances, they have not known them.\par\tab Praise ye Jehovah.
To show mercy towards our fathers,\par\tab And to remember his holy covenant;The oath which he sware unto Abraham our father,
Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.
And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant;
Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that 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 bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was a husband unto them, saith Jehovah.But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith Jehovah: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know Jehovah; for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith Jehovah: for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin will I remember no more.\par
Incline your ear, and come unto me; hear, and your soul shall live: and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
I, Jehovah, have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thy hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;
A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep mine ordinances, and do them.
Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.
Thus saith Jehovah, In an acceptable time have I answered thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee; and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to raise up the land, to make them inherit the desolate heritages:
My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him that he might fear; and he feared me, and stood in awe of my name.
And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which Jehovah hath made with you concerning all these words.
for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many unto remission of sins.
And he said unto them, {\cf6 This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many.
Ye are the sons of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with your fathers, saying unto Abraham, {\b And in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.}
In like manner also the cup, after supper, saying, {\cf6 This cup is the new covenant in my blood: this do, as often as ye drink {\i it}, in remembrance of me.}
But now hath he obtained a ministry the more excellent, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which hath been enacted upon better promises.For if that first {\i covenant} had been faultless, then would no place have been sought for a second.
{\b This is the covenant that I will make with them\par\tab After those days, saith the Lord:\par\tab I will put my laws on their heart,\par\tab And upon their mind also will I write them};\par\tab {\i then saith he,}
In that day Jehovah made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee and to thy seed after thee.
Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.
And I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and will establish my covenant with you.
Jehovah our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.Jehovah made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day.
When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which Jehovah made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water.
And now, Israel, what doth Jehovah thy God require of thee, but to fear Jehovah thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve Jehovah thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,to keep the commandments of Jehovah, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?
This day Jehovah thy God commandeth thee to do these statutes and ordinances: thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all thy heart, and with all thy soul.Thou hast avouched Jehovah this day to be thy God, and that thou wouldest walk in his ways, and keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his ordinances, and hearken unto his voice:and Jehovah hath avouched thee this day to be a people for his own possession, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments;and to make thee high above all nations that he hath made, in praise, and in name, and in honor; and that thou mayest be a holy people unto Jehovah thy God, as he hath spoken.
Gather my saints together unto me,\par\tab Those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.
My lovingkindness will I keep for him for evermore;\par\tab And my covenant shall stand fast with him.
And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a statute,\par\tab To Israel for an everlasting covenant,
The earth also is polluted under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant.
He shall dwell on high; his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks; his bread shall be given {\i him}; his waters shall be sure.\par
They shall inquire concerning Zion with their faces thitherward, {\i saying}, Come ye, and join yourselves to Jehovah in an everlasting covenant that shall not be forgotten.\par
And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause evil beasts to cease out of the land; and they shall dwell securely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.
And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant may be with Levi, saith Jehovah of hosts.
Think not that I came to destroy the law or the prophets: I came not to destroy, but to fulfil.For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass away from the law, till all things be accomplished.
I am the living bread which came down out of heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: yea and the bread which I will give is my flesh, for the life of the world.}\par
For therein is revealed a righteousness of God from faith unto faith: as it is written, {\b But the righteous shall live by faith.}\par
who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service {\i of God}, and the promises;
I say then, Did God cast off his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.God did not cast off his people which he foreknew. Or know ye not what the scripture saith of Elijah? how he pleadeth with God against Israel:
The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not a communion of the body of Christ?seeing that we, who are many, are one bread, one body: for we are all partake of the one bread.
For how many soever be the promises of God, in him is the yea: wherefore also through him is the Amen, unto the glory of God through us.
who also made us sufficient as ministers of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
Brethren, I speak after the manner of men: Though it be but a man's covenant, yet when it hath been confirmed, no one maketh it void, or addeth thereto.Now to Abraham were the promises spoken, and to his seed. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.Now this I say: A covenant confirmed beforehand by God, the law, which came four hundred and thirty years after, doth not disannul, so as to make the promise of none effect.For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise: but God hath granted it to Abraham by promise.
Which things contain an allegory: for these {\i women} are two covenants; one from mount Sinai, bearing children unto bondage, which is Hagar.
that ye were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.But now in Christ Jesus ye that once were far off are made nigh in the blood of Christ.
and through him to reconcile all things unto himself, having made peace through the blood of his cross; through him, {\i I say}, whether things upon the earth, or things in the heavens.
For where a testament is, there must of necessity be the death of him that made it.For a testament is of force where there hath been death: for it doth never avail while he that made it liveth.
And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.
And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
And all the people answered together, and said, All that Jehovah hath spoken we will do. And Moses reported the words of the people unto Jehovah.
And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been wrought in all the earth, nor in any nation; and all the people among which thou art shall see the work of Jehovah; for it is a terrible thing that I do with thee.
And yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them; for I am Jehovah their God;
Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of Jehovah your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image in the form of anything which Jehovah thy God hath forbidden thee.For Jehovah thy God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.
Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thy heart, dost thou go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations Jehovah thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may establish the word which Jehovah sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
If thy children will keep my covenant\par\tab And my testimony that I shall teach them,\par\tab Their children also shall sit upon thy throne for evermore.
But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith Jehovah: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh;that they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
As for thee also, because of the blood of thy covenant I have set free thy prisoners from the pit wherein is no water.
But I say unto you, I shall not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom.}\par
And as they were eating, he took bread, and when he had blessed, he brake it, and gave to them, and said, {\cf6 Take ye: this is my body.}And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave to them: and they all drank of it.And he said unto them, {\cf6 This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many.
For to you is the promise, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, {\i even} as many as the Lord our God shall call unto him.
For finding fault with them, he saith,\par\tab {\b Behold, the days come, saith the Lord,\par\tab That I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah;}{\b Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers\par\tab In the day that I took them by the hand to lead them forth out of the land of Egypt;\par\tab For they continued not in my covenant,\par\tab And I regarded them not, saith the Lord.}{\b For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel\par\tab After those days, saith the Lord;\par\tab I will put my laws into their mind,\par\tab And on their heart also will I write them:\par\tab And I will be to them a God,\par\tab And they shall be to me a people:}{\b And they shall not teach every man his fellow-citizen,\par\tab And every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord:\par\tab For all shall know me,\par\tab From the least to the greatest of them.}{\b For I will be merciful to their iniquities,\par\tab And their sins will I remember no more.}
Now even the first {\i covenant} had ordinances of divine service, and its sanctuary, {\i a sanctuary} of this world.
and I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and be thou a blessing:and I will bless them that bless thee, and him that curseth thee will I curse: and in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that Jehovah hath spoken will we do, and be obedient.
Ye stand this day all of you before Jehovah your God; your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Israel,your little ones, your wives, and thy sojourner that is in the midst of thy camps, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water;that thou mayest enter into the covenant of Jehovah thy God, and into his oath, which Jehovah thy God maketh with thee this day;that he may establish thee this day unto himself for a people, and that he may be unto thee a God, as he spake unto thee, and as he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath,but with him that standeth here with us this day before Jehovah our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day
Be strong and of good courage; for thou shalt cause this people to inherit the land which I sware unto their fathers to give them.Only be strong and very courageous, to observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest have good success whithersoever thou goest.This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth, but thou shalt meditate thereon day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of good courage; be not affrighted, neither be thou dismayed: for Jehovah thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.
For their heart was not right with him,\par\tab Neither were they faithful in his covenant.
He hath sent redemption unto his people;\par\tab He hath commanded his covenant for ever:\par\tab Holy and reverend is his name.
And as for me, this is my covenant with them, saith Jehovah: my Spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seeds seed, saith Jehovah, from henceforth and for ever.\par
The word that came unto Jeremiah from Jehovah, after that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people that were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty unto them;
For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass away from the law, till all things be accomplished.
and I appoint unto you a kingdom, even as my Father appointed unto me,that ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom; and ye shall sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.\par
For not through the law was the promise to Abraham or to his seed that he should be heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith.
So also it is written, The first {\b man} Adam {\b became a living soul.} The last Adam {\i became} a life-giving spirit.
Wherefore if any man is in Christ, {\i he is} a new creature: the old things are passed away; behold, the new is come.
{\i to wit}, that the Gentiles are fellow-heirs, and fellow-members of the body, and fellow-partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel,
having blotted out the bond written in ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us: and he hath taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross;
But Christ having come a high priest of the good things that are come, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation,nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption.
It is a snare to a man rashly to say, {\i It is} holy,\par\tab And after vows to make inquiry.
For thou shalt spread abroad on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall possess the nations, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.\par
I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.}
For I say that Christ hath been made a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises {\i given} unto the fathers,
Which things contain an allegory: for these {\i women} are two covenants; one from mount Sinai, bearing children unto bondage, which is Hagar.Now this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia and answereth to the Jerusalem that now is: for she is in bondage with her children.But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is our mother.
according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.\par
O Israel, trust thou in Jehovah:\par\tab He is their help and their shield.O house of Aaron, trust ye in Jehovah:\par\tab He is their help and their shield.Ye that fear Jehovah, trust in Jehovah:\par\tab He is their help and their shield.
And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause evil beasts to cease out of the land; and they shall dwell securely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in its season; there shall be showers of blessing.
Behold, I send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom ye desire, behold, he cometh, saith Jehovah of hosts.
He hath given help to Israel his servant,\par\tab That he might remember mercy(As he spake unto our fathers)\par\tab Toward Abraham and his seed for ever.\par
But now apart from the law a righteousness of God hath been manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ unto all them that believe; for there is no distinction;
The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not a communion of the body of Christ?
being made manifest that ye are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in tables {\i that are} hearts of flesh.
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us; for it is written, {\b Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree}:that upon the Gentiles might come the blessing of Abraham in Christ Jesus; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.\par
So then ye are no more strangers and sojourners, but ye are fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,
And you, being in time past alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil works,yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and unreproveable before him:
And the Holy Spirit also beareth witness to us; for after he hath said,{\b This is the covenant that I will make with them\par\tab After those days, saith the Lord:\par\tab I will put my laws on their heart,\par\tab And upon their mind also will I write them};\par\tab {\i then saith he,}{\b And their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.}Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.\par
teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I commanded you: and lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.}\par
Much more then, being now justified by his blood, shall we be saved from the wrath {\i of God} through him.For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, shall we be saved by his life;
But if some of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive, wast grafted in among them, and didst become partaker with them of the root of the fatness of the olive tree;glory not over the branches: but if thou gloriest, it is not thou that bearest the root, but the root thee.
let us hold fast the confession of our hope that it waver not; for he is faithful that promised:
All the paths of Jehovah are lovingkindness and truth\par\tab Unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the root of Jesse, that standeth for an ensign of the peoples, unto him shall the nations seek; and his resting-place shall be glorious.\par
whom God set forth {\i to be} a propitiation, through faith, in his blood, to show his righteousness because of the passing over of the sins done aforetime, in the forbearance of God;
He hath not dealt so with any nation;\par\tab And as for his ordinances, they have not known them.\par\tab Praise ye Jehovah.
And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee and to thy seed after thee.And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be mine own possession from among all peoples: for all the earth is mine:and ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.
I will worship toward thy holy temple,\par\tab And give thanks unto thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth:\par\tab For thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.
For Jehovah loveth justice,\par\tab And forsaketh not his saints;\par\tab They are preserved for ever:\par\tab But the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.
For ye received not the spirit of bondage again unto fear; but ye received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.The Spirit himself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are children of God:and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with {\i him}, that we may be also glorified with {\i him}.\par
For when God made promise to Abraham, since he could swear by none greater, he sware by himself,saying, {\b Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.}
But now thus saith Jehovah that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel: Fear not, for I have redeemed thee; I have called thee by thy name, thou art mine.When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned, neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.
by so much also hath Jesus become the surety of a better covenant.And they indeed have been made priests many in number, because that by death they are hindered from continuing:but he, because he abideth for ever, hath his priesthood unchangeable.
For I say that Christ hath been made a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises {\i given} unto the fathers,and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy; as it is written,\par\tab {\b Therefore will I give praise unto thee among the Gentiles,\par\tab And sing unto thy name.}
But ye are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for {\i God's} own possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: