⁸Now the main point in what we are saying is this: we have such a high priest, one who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,^* ²a minister in the sanctuary and the true tent^v that the Lord, and not any mortal, has set up.^* ³For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices; hence it is necessary for this priest also to have something to offer.^* ⁴Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, since there are already those^w who offer gifts according to the law. ⁵They offer worship in a sanctuary that is^x a sketch and shadow of the heavenly one, just as Moses was warned when he was about to erect the tent.^y For, God^z said, “See that you make everything according to the pattern that was shown you on the mountain.”^* ⁶But Jesus^a has now obtained a more excellent ministry, and to that degree he is the mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted on the basis of better promises.^* ⁷For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no need to look for a second one.^*

⁸God^b finds fault with them when he says:

“The days are surely coming, says the Lord,

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

and with the house of Judah,^*

⁹not like the covenant that I made with their ancestors

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 so I had no concern for them, says the Lord.

¹⁰This is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel

after those days, says the Lord:

I will put my laws in their minds

and write them on their hearts,

and I will be their God,

and they shall be my people.^*

¹¹And they shall not teach one another

or say to each other,^c ‘Know the Lord,’

for they shall all know me,

from the least of them to the greatest.^*

¹²For I will be merciful toward their iniquities,

and I will remember their sins^d no more.”^*

¹³In speaking of a new covenant, he has made the first one obsolete, and what is obsolete and growing old will soon disappear.^*

Read in Logos

Footnotes

vOr tabernacle
wOther ancient authorities read priests
xGk lacks a sanctuary that is
yOr tabernacle
zGk he
aGk he
bGk He
cOr teach each one their fellow-citizen and each one their sibling, saying
dOther ancient authorities add and their lawless deeds

Cross references

*Heb 1:3; 2:17
*Heb 9:11, 24
*Heb 5:1; 9:14
*Ex 25:40; Col 2:17; Heb 9:23; 10:1; 11:7; 12:25
*1 Tim 2:5; Heb 7:22
*Heb 7:11, 18
*Jer 31:31–34
*Zech 8:8; 2 Cor 3:3; Heb 10:16
*Isa 54:13; Jn 6:45; 1 Jn 2:27
*Heb 10:17
*2 Cor 5:17