And all things are of God, who reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and who gave to us the ministry of this reconciliation,

Now then, we serve as ambassadors for Christ, as though God were appealing through us: we implore [you] on Christ's behalf, be reconciled to God.

Then He said to them, "Therefore every scribe having become a disciple in the kingdom of heaven is like a householder who brings out of his treasure new and old [things]."

through whom we received grace and apostleship for obedience of faith among all the nations for His name,

Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers through whom you believed, as the Lord has given to each one?

According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise architect I have laid the foundation, but another builds on it. But let each one take heed how he builds on it.

And [those] whom God has appointed in the church [are]: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, kinds of tongues.

of which I became a minister according to the free gift of the grace of God which was given to me according to the working of His power.

And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers,

for the perfecting of the saints for the work of ministry, for the building up of the body of Christ,

of which I became a minister according to the stewardship of God which was given to me for you, to fulfill the word of God,

To whom God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the nations, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory;

for which I also labor, striving according to His working which is working in me with power.

according to the gospel of the glory of the blessed God, [with] which I was entrusted.

And I give thanks to the [One] who empowers me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because He considered me faithful, putting me into the ministry,

Instructing the brothers in these things, you will be a good minister of Jesus Christ, being nourished by the words of faith and of the good doctrine which you have carefully followed.

to which I was appointed a herald and apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.

But their minds were blinded. For until this day the same veil remains unlifted in the reading of the Old Testament, because the veil is removed in Christ.

Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah.

for this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many, for the forgiveness of sins.

And He said to them, "This is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many.

Likewise He also took the cup after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in My blood, which is shed for you.

Likewise He also took the cup after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in My blood. This do, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me."

by so much more Jesus has become a surety of a better covenant.

But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, inasmuch as He is also Mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted upon better promises.

For finding fault [with] them, He says: "Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah,

For this is the covenant which I shall covenant with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put My laws in their mind, and I shall inscribe them upon their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

And on account of this He is the Mediator of the new covenant, so that, since a death has occurred for redemption of the transgressions at the time of the first covenant, that those having been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

For a testament is valid over dead [people], since it is never valid when the [one] making the testament lives.

For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses according to law to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water, scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,

and to Jesus, the Mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling which speaks better things than the [blood] of Abel.

Now may the God of peace who brought up our Lord Jesus from the dead, that great Shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the everlasting covenant,

And will not the physically uncircumcised, who fulfills the law, judge you along with your written [code] and circumcision, a transgressor of the law?

but he [is] a Jew that [is one] inwardly; and circumcision is of the heart, in spirit, not in letter, whose praise is not of men but of God.

But now we were released from the law, having died in [that] to which we were held fast, so that we should serve as slaves in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter.

Now if the ministry of death, having been engraved in letters on stones, came to be with glory, so that the sons of Israel could not look intently into the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance, the [glory which] [was] passing away,

For if the ministry of condemnation [had] glory, the ministry of righteousness exceeds much more in glory.

Cursed is every man that continues not in all the words of this law, to do them. And all the people shall say, So be it.

Therefore by works of the law no flesh shall be justified in His sight, for through the law [comes] [the] knowledge of sin.

because the law produces wrath; for where there is no law neither is there transgression.

For I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, but I died.

For sin, taking opportunity by the commandment, deceived me, and by it, killed me.

For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse; for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all the things which are written in the book of the law, to do them."

But the law is not of faith, but "the man who does them shall live by them."

It is the Spirit who makes alive; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and of death.

That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have gazed upon, and our hands have handled, concerning the Word of life--

For as the Father raises up the dead and gives life, thus also the Son gives life to whom He wills.

(just as it is written, "I have appointed you a father of many nations") before God, whom he believed, the [One] who gives life to the dead and calls those things which are not as though they were;

Thus also it is written, "The first man Adam [became] a living soul;" the last Adam [became] a life-giving spirit.

And you [He made alive], being dead in transgressions and sins,

even when we were dead in transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),

For Christ also suffered once to atone for sins, [the] just for [the] unjust, that He might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive by the Spirit,