Hebrews 13:20

The author blesses them, invoking the God of peace who raised Jesus, the great Shepherd, by the blood of the eternal covenant. It grounds the closing prayer in the resurrection and Christ's saving work.

Cross-references · 40

• John 10:11I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
• Heb 10:22let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,
• Rom 15:33Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.
• Ps 23:1A Psalm by David. Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.
• John 10:14I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I’m known by my own;
• 2 Th 3:16Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in all ways. The Lord be with you all.
• Ezek 37:26Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary among them forever more.
• Zech 9:11As for you also, because of the blood of your covenant, I have set free your prisoners from the pit in which is no water.
• Acts 2:24whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.
• Exod 24:8Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, “Look, this is the blood of the covenant, which Yahweh has made with you concerning all these words.”
• 1 Pet 2:25For you were going astray like sheep; but now have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
• Isa 55:3Turn your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul will live: and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
• Isa 40:11He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom. He will gently lead those who have their young.
• Isa 63:11Then he remembered the days of old, Moses and his people, saying, “Where is he who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? Where is he who put his Holy Spirit among them?”
• Heb 9:16–17For where a last will and testament is, there must of necessity be the death of him who made it.
• Acts 3:15and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, to which we are witnesses.
• Jer 32:40and I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from following them, to do them good; and I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not depart from me.
• 1 Chr 16:17He confirmed the same to Jacob for a statute, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant,
• 1 Pet 1:21who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God.
• 1 Pet 5:4When the chief Shepherd is revealed, you will receive the crown of glory that doesn’t fade away.
• 1 Th 1:10and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead — Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.
• Col 2:12having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.
• Heb 10:29How much worse punishment do you think he will be judged worthy of who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?
• 2 Sam 23:5Most certainly my house is not so with God, yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure, for it is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he doesn’t make it grow.
• Ezek 34:23I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.
• Phil 4:9The things which you learned, received, heard, and saw in me: do these things, and the God of peace will be with you.
• 1 Th 5:23May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• Acts 5:30The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you killed, hanging him on a tree.
• Matt 26:28for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many for the remission of sins.
• Rom 8:11But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.
• Heb 9:20saying, “This is the blood of the covenant which God has commanded you.”
• Luke 22:20Likewise, he took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.
• Acts 13:30But God raised him from the dead,
• Mark 14:24He said to them, “This is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many.
• Acts 17:31because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.”
• 2 Cor 13:11Finally, brothers, rejoice. Be perfected, be comforted, be of the same mind, live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.
• Acts 2:32This Jesus God raised up, to which we all are witnesses.
• Gal 1:1Paul, an apostle (not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead),
• Acts 10:40–41God raised him up the third day, and gave him to be revealed,
• 2 Cor 4:14knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus, and will present us with you.

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