Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
Obtained
Covenant
Bible References
Obtained
Hebrews 8:7
For if the first had been faultless, no place would have been sought for a second.
2 Corinthians 3:6
Who also hath made us able ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit; for the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life.
Covenant
Hebrews 7:22
Of so much better a covenant was Jesus made a surety.
Hebrews 9:15
And for this end he is the Mediator of a new covenant, that by means of death for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, they who are called might receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.
Upon
Hebrews 8:10
For this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord: I will put my laws in their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people.
Romans 9:4
Who are Israelites, whose is the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the worship of God, and the promises:
Galatians 3:16
Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.
Titus 1:2
In hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before the world began;
2 Peter 1:4
By which he hath given us exceeding great and precious promises, that by these, having escaped the corruption which is in the world thro' desire, ye may become partakers of the divine nature: