Gather my saints together unto me; those that have 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.”
- BSB “Gather to Me My saints, who 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.
Cross-references & the web
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- Heb 13:20Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
- Exod 24:3–8And Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which the LORD hath said will we do.
- Matt 26:28For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
- Heb 12:24And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
- Deut 33:2–3And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them.
- Ps 30:4Sing unto the LORD, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.
- Heb 9:10–23Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.
- Matt 24:31And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
- Ps 97:10Ye that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.
- Jude 1:14And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
- 1 Th 3:13To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.
- Prov 2:8He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.
- Isa 13:3I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for mine anger, even them that rejoice in my highness.
- Zech 14:5And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.
- 2 Th 2:1Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
- 1 Cor 6:2–3Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
- 1 Th 4:16–17For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
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