'Ratified' in the Bible

He says: "Assemble my covenant people before me, those who ratified a covenant with me by sacrifice!"

And in the same way He took the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup, which is poured out for you, is the new covenant [ratified] in My blood.

In the same way, after supper He took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant [ratified and established] in My blood; do this, as often as you drink it, in [affectionate] remembrance of Me.”

Brothers, I’m using a human illustration. No one sets aside or makes additions to even a human covenant that has been ratified.

And I say this: The law, which came 430 years later, does not revoke a covenant that was previously ratified by God and cancel the promise.

So even the first covenant was not put in force without [the shedding of] blood.

Now may the God of peace [the source of serenity and spiritual well-being] who brought up from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood that sealed and ratified the eternal covenant,