Hebrews 8:6–13

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.^{* 7}For 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¹³In speaking of a new covenant, he has made the first one obsolete, and what is obsolete and growing old will soon disappear.^*