Hebrews 8:6–13

⁶But now he has attained a more excellent ministry, by as much as he is also mediator of a better covenant which has been enacted upon better promises. ⁷For if that first covenant had been faultless, occasion would not have been sought for a second. ⁸For in finding fault with them he says,

“Behold, days are coming, says the Lord,

when I will complete a new covenant with the house of Israel

and with the house of Judah,

⁹not like the covenant which I made with their fathers

on the day I took hold of them by my hand

to lead them out of the land of Egypt,

because they did not continue in my covenant

and I disregarded them, says the Lord.

¹⁰For this is the covenant that I will decree with the house of Israel

after those days, says the Lord:

I am putting my laws in their minds

and I will write them on their hearts,

and I will be their^b God

and they will be my^c people.

¹¹And they will not teach each one his fellow citizen

and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’

because they will all know me,

from the least of them to the greatest.

¹²For I will be merciful toward their wrongdoings,

and I will not remember their sins any longer.”

¹³In calling it new, he has declared the former to be old. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is near to disappearing.