“There is, on the one hand, the abrogation of an earlier commandment, because it was weak and ineffectual … There is, on the other hand, the introduction of a better hope through which we approach God … Accordingly, Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant … He has obtained a more excellent ministry, and thus is the mediator of the better covenant … If the first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no need for a second … So in speaking of a new covenant, he has made the first one obsolete, and what is obsolete and growing old will soon disappear.” ~ Hebrews 7:18-22 & 8:6-13

“For no one can lay any foundation other than the one that has been laid; and that foundation is Jesus Christ … So be imitators of me, [but only] as I am of Christ … For we do not proclaim ourselves, but proclaim Jesus Christ as Lord and ourselves as slaves for Jesus’ sake” ~ Paul of Tarsus (1 Corinthians 3:11, 1 Corinthians 11:1, & 2 Corinthians 4:5)

“Everyone who does not abide in the teaching of Christ, but goes beyond it, does not have God; whoever abides in the teaching has both the Father and the Son” ~ 2 John 1:9

 

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