Quotes About Covenant

He has fulfilled for us, their children, by raising up Jesus. As it is written in the second Psalm: ëYou are My Son; today I have become Your Father.í

ëAfter this I will return and rebuild the fallen tent of David. Its ruins I will rebuild, and I will restore it,

On hearing this, they were baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus.

So the next day Paul took the men and purified himself along with them. Then he entered the temple to give notice of the date when their purification would be complete and the offering would be made for each of them.

But I have had Godís help to this day, and I stand here to testify to small and great alike. I am saying nothing beyond what the prophets and Moses said would happen:

Now you, if you call yourself a Jew; if you rely on the law and boast in God;

Circumcision has value if you observe the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

What, then, is the advantage of being a Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision?

Much in every way. First of all, they have been entrusted with the very words of God.

Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Certainly not! Instead, we uphold the law.

What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather, has discovered?

Is this blessing only on the circumcised, or also on the uncircumcised? We have been saying that Abrahamís faith was credited to him as righteousness.

And he is also the father of the circumcised who not only are circumcised, but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.

For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world was not given through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.

Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as he had been told, “So shall your offspring be.”

For instance, a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage.

So then, if she is joined to another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law and is not an adulteress, even if she marries another man.

It is not as though Godís word has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.

Nor because they are Abrahamís descendants are they all his children. On the contrary, “Through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.”

So it is not the children of the flesh who are Godís children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as offspring.

For this is what the promise stated: “At the appointed time I will return, and Sarah will have a son.”

Not only that, but Rebeccaís children were conceived by one man, our father Isaac.

Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the Israelites is like the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved.

For concerning the righteousness that is by the law, Moses writes: “The man who does these things will live by them.”