Covenants

Question 0

Col 2:14

Answer 0

having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross. (Colossians 2:14 NIV)

Question 1

Col. 2:13

Answer 1

When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins,

Question 2

Col. 2:15

Answer 2

And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.

Question 3

Col. 2:16

Answer 3

Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day.

Question 4

Col. 2:11

Answer 4

In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not performed by human hands. Your whole self ruled by the flesh was put off when you were circumcised by Christ,

Question 5

Col. 2:12

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Acts 17:30

Answer 6

In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent.

Question 7

Heb 1:1-2

Answer 7

In the past God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets at many times and in various ways, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom also he made the universe.

Question 8

Heb. 8:6-7

Answer 8

But in fact the ministry Jesus has received is as superior to theirs as the covenant of which he is mediator is superior to the old one, since the new covenant is established on better promises. For if there had been nothing wrong with that first covenant, no place would have been sought for another.

Question 9

Heb 8:8-9

Answer 9

But God found fault with the people and said:
“The days are coming, declares the Lord,
when I will make a new covenant
with the people of Israel
and with the people of Judah. It will not be like the covenant
I made with their ancestors
when I took them by the hand
to lead them out of Egypt,
because they did not remain faithful to my covenant,
and I turned away from them,
declares the Lord.

Question 10

Heb 8:10-11

Answer 10

This is the covenant I will establish with the people of Israel
after that time, declares the Lord.
I will put my laws in their minds
and write them on their hearts.
I will be their God,
and they will be my people. No longer will they teach their neighbor,
or say to one another, 'Know the Lord,'
because they will all know me,
from the least of them to the greatest.

Question 11

Heb. 8:12-13

Answer 11

For I will forgive their wickedness
and will remember their sins no more.” By calling this covenant “new,” he has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and outdated will soon disappear.

Question 12

Heb. 9:16-17

Answer 12

In the case of a will, it is necessary to prove the death of the one who made it, because a will is in force only when somebody has died; it never takes effect while the one who made it is living.

Question 13

Heb. 9:22

Answer 13

In fact, the law requires that nearly everything be cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.

Question 14

Heb. 10:1

Answer 14

The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming—not the realities themselves. For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship.

Question 15

Heb. 10:2-4

Answer 15

Otherwise, would they not have stopped being offered? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt guilty for their sins. But those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins. It is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. (Hebrews 10:2-4 NIV)

Question 16

Heb. 10:11-12

Answer 16

Day after day every priest stands and performs his religious duties; again and again he offers the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But when this priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God,

Question 17

Jer. 31:31

Answer 17

“The days are coming,” declares the Lord,
“when I will make a new covenant
with the people of Israel
and with the people of Judah.

Question 18

Jer. 31:32

Answer 18

It will not be like the covenant
I made with their ancestors
when I took them by the hand
to lead them out of Egypt,
because they broke my covenant,
though I was a husband to them,"
declares the Lord.

Question 19

Jer. 31:33

Answer 19

"This is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel
after that time," declares the Lord.
"I will put my law in their minds
and write it on their hearts.
I will be their God,
and they will be my people.

Question 20

Jer. 31:34

Answer 20

No longer will they teach their neighbor,
or say to one another, 'Know the Lord,'
because they will all know me,
from the least of them to the greatest,"
declares the Lord.
"For I will forgive their wickedness
and will remember their sins no more."

Question 21

Gen. 17:10-11

Answer 21

This is my covenant with you and your descendants after you, the covenant you are to keep: Every male among you shall be circumcised. You are to undergo circumcision, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and you.

Question 22

Gen. 10:12-13

Answer 22

For the generations to come every male among you who is eight days old must be circumcised, including those born in your household or bought with money from a foreigner—those who are not your offspring. Whether born in your household or bought with your money, they must be circumcised. My covenant in your flesh is to be an everlasting covenant.

Question 23

Gen. 17:14

Answer 23

Any uncircumcised male, who has not been circumcised in the flesh, will be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant.

Question 24

Rom.m3:25

Answer 24

God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement, through the shedding of his blood—to be received by faith. He did this to demonstrate his righteousness, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished—

Question 25

Rom. 3:26

Answer 25

he did it to demonstrate his righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.

Question 26

Heb. 11:13

Answer 26

All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance, admitting that they were foreigners and strangers on earth.