Quotes About Covenant

So also, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”

Understand, then, that those who have faith are sons of Abraham.

So those who have faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.

Brothers, let me put this in human terms. Even a human covenant, once it is ratified, cannot be canceled or amended.

The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. The Scripture does not say, “and to seeds,” meaning many, but “and to your seed,” meaning One, who is Christ.

What I mean is this: The law that came 430 years later does not revoke the covenant previously established by God, so as to nullify the promise.

For if the inheritance depends on the law, then it no longer depends on a promise; but God freely granted it to Abraham through a promise.

Why then was the law given? It was added because of transgressions, until the arrival of the seed to whom the promise referred. It was administered through angels by a mediator.

A mediator is unnecessary, however, for only one party; but God is one.

And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abrahamís seed and heirs according to the promise.

For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman.

His son by the slave woman was born according to the flesh, but his son by the free woman was born through the promise.

These things serve as illustrations, for the women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children into slavery: This is Hagar.

Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present-day Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with her children.

Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise.

But what does the Scripture say? “Expel the slave woman and her son, for the slave womanís son will never share in the inheritance with the free womanís son.”

You who are trying to be justified by the law have been severed from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.

“For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”

This mystery is profound, but I am speaking about Christ and the church.

For surely it is not the angels He helps, but the descendants of Abraham.

He was faithful to the One who appointed Him, just as Moses was faithful in all Godís house.

Now Moses was faithful as a servant in all Godís house, testifying to what would be spoken later.

For who were the ones who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt?

And to whom did He swear that they would never enter His rest? Was it not to those who disobeyed?