Hebrews 8
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The New Priestly Service
8Now this is the main point of the things we are saying: We have such a High Priest, awho is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, 2a Minister of bthe 1sanctuary and of cthe true tabernacle which the Lord erected, and not man.
3For devery high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices. Therefore eit is necessary that this One also have something to offer. 4For if He were on earth, He would not be a priest, since there are priests who offer the gifts according to the law; 5who serve fthe copy and gshadow of the heavenly things, as Moses was divinely instructed when he was about to make the tabernacle. For He said, h“See that you make all things according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.” 6But now iHe has obtained a more excellent ministry, inasmuch as He is also Mediator of a jbetter covenant, which was established on better promises.
A New Covenant
7For if that kfirst covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second. 8Because finding fault with them, He says: l“Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah—9not 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 did not continue in My covenant, and I disregarded them, says the Lord. 10For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the mLord: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and nI will be their God, and they shall be My people. 11oNone of them shall teach his neighbor, and none his brother, saying, ‘Know the pLord,’ for all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them. 12For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, qand their sins 2and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.”
13rIn that He says, “A new covenant,” He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.
Footnotes
Cross references
- aPs. 68:18; 110:1; Eph. 1:20; Col. 3:1; Heb. 2:17; 3:1; 10:12
- bHeb. 9:8, 12
- cHeb. 9:11, 24
- d[Rom. 4:25; 5:6, 8; Gal. 2:20; Eph. 5:2]; Heb. 5:1; 8:4
- e[Eph. 5:2; Heb. 9:14]
- fHeb. 9:23, 24
- gCol. 2:17; Heb. 10:1
- hEx. 25:40
- i[2 Cor. 3:6–8]
- j[Luke 22:20]; Heb. 7:22
- kEx. 3:8; 19:5
- lJer. 31:31–34
- mJer. 31:33; Rom. 11:27; Heb. 10:16
- nZech. 8:8
- oIs. 54:13; John 6:45; [1 John 2:27]
- pJer. 31:34
- qRom. 11:27
- r[2 Cor. 5:17]; Heb. 1:11
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