Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant,
I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
May the God of peace be with you all. Amen.
Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in every way. The Lord be with you all.
I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me,
I will make a covenant of peace with them. It shall be an everlasting covenant with them. And I will set them in their land and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in their midst forevermore.
As for you also, because of the blood of my covenant with you, I will set your prisoners free from the waterless pit.
God raised him up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it.
And Moses took the blood and threw it on the people and said, “Behold the blood of the covenant that the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these words.”
For you were straying like sheep, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
Incline your ear, and come to me; hear, that your soul may live; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant, my steadfast, sure love for David.
For where a will is involved, the death of the one who made it must be established. For a will takes effect only at death, since it is not in force as long as the one who made it is alive.
and you killed the Author of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this we are witnesses.
Then he remembered the days of old, of Moses and his people. Where is he who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? Where is he who put in the midst of them his Holy Spirit,
who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.
and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come.
having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead.
I will make with them an everlasting covenant, that I will not turn away from doing good to them. And I will put the fear of me in their hearts, that they may not turn from me.
which he confirmed to Jacob as a statute, to Israel as an everlasting covenant,
And when the chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the unfading crown of glory.
How much worse punishment, do you think, will be deserved by the one who has trampled underfoot the Son of God, and has profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has outraged the Spirit of grace?
saying, “This is the blood of the covenant that God commanded for you.”
Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me—practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.
If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.
The God of our fathers raised Jesus, whom you killed by hanging him on a tree.
for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
And I will set up over them one shepherd, my servant David, and he shall feed them: he shall feed them and be their shepherd.
He will tend his flock like a shepherd; he will gather the lambs in his arms; he will carry them in his bosom, and gently lead those that are with young.
“For does not my house stand so with God? For he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and secure. For will he not cause to prosper all my help and my desire?
that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places,
Paul, an apostle—not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead—
Finally, brothers, rejoice. Aim for restoration, comfort one another, agree with one another, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.
knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and bring us with you into his presence.
We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified about God that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised.
For God is not a God of confusion but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints,
And God raised the Lord and will also raise us up by his power.
but for ours also. It will be counted to us who believe in him who raised from the dead Jesus our Lord, who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification.
because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.”
But God raised him from the dead,
but God raised him on the third day and made him to appear, not to all the people but to us who had been chosen by God as witnesses, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.
This Jesus God raised up, and of that we all are witnesses.
And likewise the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood.
And he said to them, “This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many.
“My servant David shall be king over them, and they shall all have one shepherd. They shall walk in my rules and be careful to obey my statutes.
For I the Lord love justice; I hate robbery and wrong; I will faithfully give them their recompense, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
and was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord,
let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead—by him this man is standing before you well.
To the choirmaster: according to Lilies. A Testimony. Of Asaph, a Psalm. Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock. You who are enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth.
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