Deuteronomy 29:14

that you 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.

He shows his word to Jacob, his statutes and his ordinances to Israel.

I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly.”

You shall tell Pharaoh, ‘Yahweh says, Israel is my son, my firstborn,

so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud; for Yahweh’s glory filled Yahweh’s house.

But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel that are of Israel.

For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

You are the children of Yahweh your God. You shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

but the children of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”

You who glory in the law, do you dishonor God by disobeying the law?

Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the offspring of Abraham? So am I.

Now indeed even the first covenant had ordinances of divine service and an earthly sanctuary.

In that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, “I have given this land to your offspring, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:

I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your offspring after you.

This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your offspring after you. Every male among you shall be circumcised.

Then you will be clear from my oath, when you come to my relatives. If they don’t give her to you, you shall be clear from my oath.’

He said, “Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed.”

It shall happen when you have come to the land which Yahweh will give you, as he has promised, that you shall keep this service.

Yahweh said to Moses, “Write these words; for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”

Then the cloud covered the Tent of Meeting, and Yahweh’s glory filled the tabernacle.

When Moses went into the Tent of Meeting to speak with Yahweh, he heard his voice speaking to him from above the mercy seat that was on the ark of the Testimony, from between the two cherubim; and he spoke to him.

These are the words of the covenant which Yahweh commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.

that you may enter into the covenant of Yahweh your God, and into his oath, which Yahweh your God makes with you today,

and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, “I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart,” to destroy the moist with the dry.

Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers. This people will rise up and play the prostitute after the strange gods of the land where they go to be among them, and will forsake me and break my covenant which I have made with them.

So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and made for them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.

Jehoiada made a covenant between Yahweh and the king and the people, that they should be Yahweh’s people; also between the king and the people.

They entered into the covenant to seek Yahweh, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul;

Now therefore let’s make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and those who are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God. Let it be done according to the law.

Remember them, my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites.

So I have seen you in the sanctuary, watching your power and your glory.

Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.

and delivered his strength into captivity, his glory into the adversary’s hand.

“I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David, my servant,

I will not break my covenant, nor alter what my lips have uttered.

Let your work appear to your servants, your glory to their children.

He dug it up, gathered out its stones, planted it with the choicest vine, built a tower in the middle of it, and also cut out a wine press in it. He looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.

“But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham my friend,

“Listen to me, house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, that have been carried from their birth, that have been carried from the womb.

The sun will be no more your light by day; nor will the brightness of the moon give light to you, but Yahweh will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your glory.

We have become like those over whom you never ruled, like those who were not called by your name.

They will come with weeping. I will lead them with petitions. I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they won’t stumble; for I am a father to Israel. Ephraim is my firstborn.

Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he a darling child? For as often as I speak against him, I still earnestly remember him. therefore my heart yearns for him. I will surely have mercy on him,” says Yahweh.

“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: “I will put my law in their inward parts, and I will write it in their heart. I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

“When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.

But he answered, “It is not appropriate to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”

“Hear another parable. There was a man who was a master of a household, who planted a vineyard, set a hedge about it, dug a wine press in it, built a tower, leased it out to farmers, and went into another country.

“He said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours.

For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!”

When Peter saw it, he responded to the people, “You men of Israel, why do you marvel at this man? Why do you fasten your eyes on us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made him walk?

This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel that spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received living revelations to give to us,

He saw heaven opened and a certain container descending to him, like a great sheet let down by four corners on the earth,

We bring you good news of the promise made to the fathers,

Much in every way! Because first of all, they were entrusted with the revelations of God.

For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;

that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of children.

but he whose genealogy is not counted from them has accepted tithes from Abraham, and has blessed him who has the promises.

But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which on better promises has been given as law.

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; for they didn’t continue in my covenant, and I disregarded them,” says the Lord.

After the second veil was the tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies,

being only (with meats and drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.

saying, “This is the blood of the covenant which God has commanded you.”

by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.