New Revised Standard Version
accordingly Jesus has also become the guarantee of a better covenant.

Contemporary English Version
This means that Jesus guarantees us a better agreement with God.

New American Bible
to that same degree has Jesus [also] become the guarantee of an [even] better covenant.

Douay-Rheims Bible
By so much is Jesus made a surety of a better testament.

By so much is Jesus made a surety of a better testament.

a surety.

Genesis 43:9 I take the boy upon me, require him at my hand: unless I bring him again, and restore him to thee, I will be guilty of sin against thee for ever.

Genesis 44:32 Let me be thy proper servant, who took him into my trust, and promised, saying: If I bring him not again, I will be guilty of sin against my father for ever.

Proverbs 6:1 Thou art ensnared with the words of thy mouth, and caught with thy own words.

Proverbs 20:16 Take away the garment of him that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge from him for strangers.

of a.

Hebrews 8:6-12 But now he hath obtained a better ministry, by how much also he is a mediator of a better testament which is established on better promises. . . .

Hebrews 9:15-23 And therefore he is the mediator of the new testament: that by means of his death for the redemption of those transgressions which were under the former testament, they that are called may receive the promise of eternal inheritance. . . .

Hebrews 12:24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new testament, and to the sprinkling of blood which speaketh better than that of Abel.

Hebrews 13:20 And may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great pastor of the sheep, our Lord Jesus Christ, in the blood of the everlasting testament,

Daniel 9:27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many, in one week: and in the half of the week the victim and the sacrifice shall fail: and there shall be in the temple the abomination of desolation: and the desolation shall continue even to the consummation, and to the end.

Matthew 26:28 For this is my blood of the new testament, which shall be shed for many unto remission of sins.

Mark 14:24 And he said to them: This is my blood of the new testament, which shall be shed for many.

Luke 22:20 In like manner, the chalice also, after he had supped, saying: This is the chalice, the new testament in my blood, which shall be shed for you.

1 Corinthians 11:25 In like manner also the chalice, after he had supped, saying: This chalice is the new testament in my blood. This do ye, as often as you shall drink, for the commemoration of me.

testament.