# διαθήκη (diathēkē)

Strong’s G1242. 30 New Testament occurrences.

(a) a covenant between two parties, (b) (the ordinary, everyday sense [found a countless number of times in papyri]) a will, testament.

Lexicon: Dodson, public domain.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/greek/diatheke-g1242

## Occurrences

- [Matthew 26:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/matthew/26/28) — For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
- [Mark 14:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/mark/14/24) — And he said unto them, This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many.
- [Luke 1:72](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/luke/1/72) — To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant;
- [Luke 22:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/luke/22/20) — Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.
- [Acts 3:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/acts/3/25) — Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the ea…
- [Acts 7:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/acts/7/8) — And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so Abraham begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat the twelve…
- [Romans 9:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/romans/9/4) — Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;
- [Romans 11:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/romans/11/27) — For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.
- [1 Corinthians 11:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-corinthians/11/25) — After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in rememb…
- [2 Corinthians 3:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-corinthians/3/6) — Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
- [2 Corinthians 3:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-corinthians/3/14) — But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.
- [Galatians 3:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/galatians/3/15) — Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though it be but a man’s covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto.
- [Galatians 3:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/galatians/3/17) — And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it…
- [Galatians 4:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/galatians/4/24) — Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
- [Ephesians 2:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ephesians/2/12) — That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and withou…
- [Hebrews 7:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrews/7/22) — By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.
- [Hebrews 8:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrews/8/6) — But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
- [Hebrews 8:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrews/8/8) — For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Ju…
- [Hebrews 8:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrews/8/9) — Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they contin…
- [Hebrews 8:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrews/8/10) — For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in thei…
- [Hebrews 9:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrews/9/4) — Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron’s rod that budded…
- [Hebrews 9:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrews/9/15) — And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testamen…
- [Hebrews 9:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrews/9/16) — For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.
- [Hebrews 9:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrews/9/17) — For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.
- [Hebrews 9:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrews/9/20) — Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.
- [Hebrews 10:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrews/10/16) — This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
- [Hebrews 10:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrews/10/29) — Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, w…
- [Hebrews 12:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrews/12/24) — And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
- [Hebrews 13:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrews/13/20) — Now 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,
- [Revelation 11:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/revelation/11/19) — And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings,…