and said, “This is the blood of the covenant that God has commanded you to keep.”

He is dressed in clothing dipped in blood, and he is called the Word of God.

“Be patient with me a little longer and I will instruct you, for I still have words to speak on God’s behalf.

The Lord is the only true God. He is the living God and the everlasting King. When he shows his anger the earth shakes. None of the nations can stand up to his fury.

The godly speak wise words and promote justice.

God says, “At the appointed times, I judge fairly.

and you then take his daughters for your sons, and when his daughters prostitute themselves to their gods, they will make your sons prostitute themselves to their gods as well.

But as for me, God’s presence is all I need. I have made the sovereign Lord my shelter, as I declare all the things you have done.

But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? The God who inflicts wrath is not unrighteous, is he? (I am speaking in human terms.)

God said to him, “Your name is Jacob, but your name will no longer be called Jacob; Israel will be your name.” So God named him Israel.

But David could not go before it to seek God’s will, for he was afraid of the sword of the Lord’s messenger.

Solomon also made these items for God’s temple: the gold altar, the tables on which the Bread of the Presence was kept,

Now when the centurion, who stood in front of him, saw how he died, he said, “Truly this man was God’s Son!”

For David, after he had served God’s purpose in his own generation, died, was buried with his ancestors, and experienced decay,

For I tell you that Christ has become a servant of the circumcised on behalf of God’s truth to confirm the promises made to the fathers,

So then you are no longer foreigners and noncitizens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household,

Let nobody deceive you with empty words, for because of these things God’s wrath comes on the sons of disobedience.

You once were not a people, but now you are God’s people. You were shown no mercy, but now you have received mercy.

They say, “How does God know what we do? Is the sovereign one aware of what goes on?”

The one who conquers I will make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will never depart from it. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God (the new Jerusalem that comes down out of heaven from my God), and my new name as well.