“Gather to Me My saints, who made a covenant with Me by sacrifice.”
Parallel translations
- WEB “Gather my saints together to me, those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.”
- KJV Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.
- NKJV “Gather My saints together to Me, Those who have made a covenant with Me by sacrifice.”
- NASB “Gather My godly ones to Me, Those who have made a covenant with Me by sacrifice.”
- NLT “Bring my faithful people to me— those who made a covenant with me by giving sacrifices.”
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Quick answer
God gathers His covenant people—those bound to Him 'by sacrifice'—to hear Him. The summons is to those in covenant relationship with Him.
Overview
The Lord calls together His 'saints,' His consecrated ones who entered covenant through sacrifice, recalling how Israel's covenant at Sinai was ratified with blood. The address that follows will distinguish true worship from empty ritual. Believers today are gathered into a new covenant ratified by the sacrifice of Christ.
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- Heb 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,
- Exod 24:3–8When Moses came and told the people all the words and ordinances of the LORD, they all responded with one voice: “All the words that the LORD has spoken, we will do.”
- Matt 26:28This is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
- Heb 12:24to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.
- Deut 33:2–3He said: “The LORD came from Sinai and dawned upon us from Seir; He shone forth from Mount Paran and came with myriads of holy ones, with flaming fire at His right hand.
- Ps 30:4Sing to the LORD, O you His saints, and praise His holy name.
- Heb 9:10–23They consist only in food and drink and special washings—external regulations imposed until the time of reform.
- Matt 24:31And He will send out His angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather His elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.
- Ps 97:10Hate evil, O you who love the LORD! He preserves the souls of His saints; He delivers them from the hand of the wicked.
- Jude 1:14Enoch, the seventh from Adam, also prophesied about them: “Behold, the Lord is coming with myriads of His holy ones
- 1 Th 3:13so that He may establish your hearts in blamelessness and holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all His saints. Amen.
- Prov 2:8to guard the paths of justice and protect the way of His saints.
- Isa 13:3I have commanded My sanctified ones; I have even summoned My warriors to execute My wrath and exult in My triumph.
- Zech 14:5You will flee by My mountain valley, for it will extend to Azal. You will flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the LORD my God will come, and all the holy ones with Him.
- 2 Th 2:1Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to Him, we ask you, brothers,
- 1 Cor 6:2–3Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if you are to judge the world, are you not competent to judge trivial cases?
- 1 Th 4:16–17For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a loud command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will be the first to rise.
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