if necessary, but not to inflict it (13:9–10). The new-covenant people is a community of peace, and specifically of nonviolence.66 Our primary goal in the preceding two chapters has been to rediscover the features of a new-covenant model of the atonement in various parts of the New Testament. The basic claim has been that the New Testament writers we have considered view the several aspects of the promised new covenant as having been effected by the death of Jesus.