New Covenant is so much better that it is as if the Old has been done away with completely. The reason the New Covenant is so much better is because “Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance—now that he has died as a ransom to set them free from the sins committed under the first covenant” (9:15; cf. 12:24). The New Covenant offers full and final satisfaction for the curse of God against every kind of covenant-breaking. Sixth,
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