Covenant of Grace
One Covenant in Substance
Grace · 6 verses
The covenant of grace, though administered diversely across redemptive history, remains singular in substance—the gracious promise to save sinners through the mediatorial work of Christ. From the protoevangelium in Eden through the Abrahamic, Mosaic, Davidic, and New Covenants, God's redemptive plan unfolds progressively while maintaining essential unity in Christ.
Scripture References
“Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham. And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed. So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.”
“And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also:”
“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 testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.”
“And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.”
“Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.”
“But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they.”