²⁵ In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, and said, “This cup is the new covenant^(A) in my blood.^(B) Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.”

⁶ He has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant,^(A) not of the letter,^(B) but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

Benediction and Farewell

²⁰ Now may the God of peace, who brought up from the dead our Lord Jesus—the great Shepherd of the sheep^(A)—through the blood of the everlasting covenant,^(B)