for this is my blood, the blood ¹  of the covenant, ²  that is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.

He said to them, “This is my blood, the blood ¹  of the covenant, ²  that is poured out for many.

so that you may enter by oath into the covenant the Lord your God is making with you today. ¹ 

Moreover, as for you, because of our covenant relationship secured with blood, I will release your prisoners from the waterless pit.

and to Jesus, the mediator ¹  of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks of something better than Abel’s does. ² 

Joshua told the priests, “Pick up the ark of the covenant and pass on ahead of the people.” So they picked up the ark of the covenant and went ahead of the people.

This is my requirement that you and your descendants after you must keep: ¹  Every male among you must be circumcised. ² 

and called David’s enemies to account.” So Jonathan made a covenant ¹  with the house of David. ² 

and set up in it a place for the ark containing the covenant the Lord made with the Israelites.”

Then you will know that I sent this commandment to you so that my covenant ¹  may continue to be with Levi,” says the Lord who rules over all.

The Lord said, ¹  “I have made a covenant with my chosen one; I have made a promise on oath to David, my servant:

Will it make a pact ¹  with you, so you could take it ²  as your slave for life?

And so he is the mediator ¹  of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the eternal inheritance he has promised, ²  since he died ³  to set them free from the violations committed under the first covenant.

You must circumcise the flesh of your foreskins. This will be a reminder ¹  of the covenant between me and you.

But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time next year.”

I also established my covenant with them ¹  to give them the land of Canaan, where they were living as resident foreigners. ² 

I ¹  have also heard ²  the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are enslaving, ³  and I have remembered my covenant. ⁴ 

The Lord said to Moses, “Write down ¹  these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”

I will turn to you, make you fruitful, multiply you, and maintain ¹  my covenant with you.

if you reject my statutes and abhor my regulations so that you do not keep ¹  all my commandments and you break my covenant –