Hebrews 8

Chapter 8

A Better Ministry

¹Now the main point in what has been said is this: we have such a ^ahigh priest, who has taken His seat at ^bthe right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,

²a ^aminister ¹in the sanctuary and in the ^btrue ²tabernacle, which the Lord ^cpitched, not man.

³For every ^ahigh priest is appointed ^bto offer both gifts and sacrifices; so it is necessary that this high priest also have something to offer.

⁴Now if He were on earth, He would not be a priest at all, since there are those who ^aoffer the gifts according to the Law;

⁵who serve ^aa copy and ^bshadow of the heavenly things, just as Moses ¹was ^cwarned by God when he was about to erect the ²tabernacle; for, “^dSee,” He says, “that you make all things according to the pattern which was shown you on the mountain.”

⁶But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, by as much as He is also the ^amediator of ^ba better covenant, which has been enacted on better promises.

A New Covenant

⁷For ^aif that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion sought for a second.

⁸For finding fault with them, He says,

“^aBehold, days are coming, says the Lord,

¹When I will effect ^ba new covenant

With the house of Israel and with the house of Judah;

^9aNot like the covenant which I made with their fathers

On the day when I took them by the hand

To lead them out of the land of Egypt;

For they did not continue in My covenant,

And I did not care for them, says the Lord.

¹⁰“^aFor this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel

After those days, says the Lord:

¹I will put My laws into their minds,

And I will write them ^bon their hearts.

And I will be their God,

And they shall be My people.

¹¹“^aAnd they shall not teach everyone his fellow citizen,

And everyone his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’

For ^ball will know Me,

From ¹the least to the greatest of them.

¹²“^aFor I will be merciful to their iniquities,

^bAnd I will remember their sins no more.”

¹³¹When He said, “^aA new covenant,” He has made the first obsolete. ^bBut whatever is becoming obsolete and growing old is ²ready to disappear.