'New' in the Bible

But showing its fault, God says to them, "Look, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will complete a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.

When he speaks of a new covenant, he makes the first obsolete. Now what is growing obsolete and aging is about to disappear.

They served only for matters of food and drink and various washings; they are external regulations imposed until the new order came.

And so he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the eternal inheritance he has promised, since he died to set them free from the violations committed under the first covenant.

and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks of something better than Abel's does.