Hebrews 13:20

However God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.”

“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.

Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

“As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says Yahweh. “My Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your offspring, nor out of the mouth of your offspring’s offspring,” says Yahweh, “from now on and forever.”

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your filthiness, and from all your idols.

“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.

For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.

My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and on every high hill. Yes, my sheep were scattered on all the surface of the earth. There was no one who searched or sought.”

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

I have other sheep, which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, to which we are witnesses.

Some of you were such, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.

(for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

For the Father judges no one, but he has given all judgment to the Son,

Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.

Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,

make my joy full by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;

For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,

Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

They will inquire concerning Zion with their faces turned toward it, saying, ‘Come, and join yourselves to Yahweh in an everlasting covenant that will not be forgotten.’

“Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep, and lost one of them, wouldn’t leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one that was lost, until he found it?

I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.

to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

Let’s therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace for help in time of need.

to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn’t fade away, reserved in Heaven for you,

This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you—not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

for the Lamb who is in the middle of the throne shepherds them and leads them to springs of life-giving waters. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”

Hear my teaching, my people. Turn your ears to the words of my mouth.

The captive exile will speedily be freed. He will not die and go down into the pit. His bread won’t fail.

Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them. It will be an everlasting covenant with them. I will place them, multiply them, and will set my sanctuary among them forever more.

As for you also, because of the blood of your covenant, I have set free your prisoners from the pit in which is no water.

Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, with what will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.

This Jesus God raised up, to which we all are witnesses.

Be of the same mind one toward another. Don’t set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don’t be wise in your own conceits.

knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus, and will present us with you.

which he worked in Christ, when he raised him from the dead and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places,

Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

The things which you learned, received, heard, and saw in me: do these things, and the God of peace will be with you.

having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.

By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,

Turn your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul will live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

Then he remembered the days of old, Moses and his people, saying, “Where is he who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? Where is he who put his Holy Spirit among them?”

“Awake, sword, against my shepherd, and against the man who is close to me,” says Yahweh of Armies. “Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; and I will turn my hand against the little ones.

Likewise, he took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.

or, ‘Who will descend into the abyss?’ (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead.)”

How much worse punishment do you think he will be judged worthy of who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

For you were going astray like sheep; but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

Isn’t my house so with God? Yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure, for it is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he doesn’t make it grow.

“Gather my saints together to me, those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.”

For a child is born to us. A son is given to us; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

“I, Yahweh, have called you in righteousness. I will hold your hand. I will keep you, and make you a covenant for the people, as a light for the nations,

I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from following them, to do them good. I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not depart from me.

I will set up one shepherd over them, and he will feed them, even my servant David. He will feed them, and he will be their shepherd.

for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many for the remission of sins.

But one who enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

So when they had eaten their breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.”

In the same way he also took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink, in memory of me.”

These things contain an allegory, for these are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage, which is Hagar.

For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of separation,

let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,

When the chief Shepherd is revealed, you will receive the crown of glory that doesn’t fade away.

Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, “Look, this is the blood of the covenant, which Yahweh has made with you concerning all these words.”

He confirmed it to Jacob for a statute, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant,

The words of the wise are like goads; and like nails well fastened are words from the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.

The earth also is polluted under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant.

He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom. He will gently lead those who have their young.

“ ‘ “My servant David will be king over them. They all will have one shepherd. They will also walk in my ordinances, and observe my statutes, and do them.

He said to them, “This is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many.

I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I’m known by my own;

The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you killed, hanging him on a tree.

But God raised him from the dead,

because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.”

who was declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord,

And the God of peace will quickly crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

Now God raised up the Lord, and will also raise us up by his power.

for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace, as in all the assemblies of the saints.

Finally, brothers, rejoice! Be perfected. Be comforted. Be of the same mind. Live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

Paul, an apostle—not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead—

and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead: Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.

May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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

who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope might be in God.