Passages which mention the “new covenant”:

1 Corinthians 11:25, "In the same way he [Jesus] took the cup also, after supper, saying, 'This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.'"

2 Corinthians 3:6, "who has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant, not of letter but of spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life."

Hebrews 8:8, "God finds fault with them when he says: 'The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah;'" [quoting Jeremiah 31:31]

Hebrews 8:13, "In speaking of 'a new covenant,' he has made the first one obsolete. And what is obsolete and growing old will soon disappear."

Hebrews 9:15, "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."

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Unless otherwise noted, scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible [NRSV], copyright © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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