Luke 22:20

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“In the same way, after supper He took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood, which is poured out for you.”

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BSBPD

“In the same way, after supper He took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood, which is poured out for you.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“And the cup in like manner after supper, saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood, even that which is poured out for you.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“In like manner, also, the cup after the supping, saying, `This cup <FI>is<Fi> the new covenant in my blood, that for you is being poured forth.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Luke 22:20 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Exodus 24:8So Moses took the blood, sprinkled it on the people, and said, “This is the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words.”
  2. Jeremiah 31:31Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.
  3. Zechariah 9:11As for you,because of the blood of My covenant,I will release your prisonersfrom the waterless pit.
  4. Matthew 26:28This is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
  5. 1 Corinthians 10:16Is not the cup of blessing that we bless a participation in the blood of Christ? And is not the bread that we break a participation in the body of Christ?
  6. 1 Corinthians 11:25In the same way, after supper He took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood; do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.”
  7. 2 Corinthians 3:6And He has qualified us as ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
  8. Hebrews 8:6Now, however, Jesus has received a much more excellent ministry, just as the covenant He mediates is better and is founded on better promises.
  9. Hebrews 9:15Therefore Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, now that He has died to redeem them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.
  10. Hebrews 9:17because a will does not take effect until the one who made it has died; it cannot be executed while he is still alive.
  11. Hebrews 12:24to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.
  12. Hebrews 13:20Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep,

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