Assertion: new covenant | /r/HasProperty | new
Facets:
value: always
type: DEGREE
value: sometimes
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: The new covenant with Israel is new in contrast to the Mosaic covenant of the Old Testament.
text: It declares that this new covenant has been already introduced and that by virtue of the fact it is called ‘new’ it has made the one which it is replacing ‘old,’ and that the old is about to vanish away.
text: The new covenant is not a mere possibility; it is a new creation.
text: Sometimes called the New Testament, the new covenant is a fulfillment of the promise God made with Israel to bring them back to the land and to help them obey the law.
text: The new covenant for the church is new in contrast to the Adamic or old covenant for the church as a whole.
text: Of special interest is Hebrews 12:24 where the expression διαθήκη νέα is used for the new covenant—new in the sense of recent, the only such instance in the New Testament.
text: So yes, the New Covenant is still new.
text: It will always be “new” in that it offers us not a code of external prescriptions, but the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
text: And the new covenant is always new in that it can transform each of us when we are willing to open our hearts to its Mediator.
text: It declares that this new covenant has been already introduced and that by virtue of the fact that it is called ‘new’ it has made the one which it is replacing ‘old,’ and that the old is about to vanish away.