HEBREWS

 

Hebrews Chapter 8

1 ¶ Now the main point of what we are saying is this: We have such an high priest, and he sat down on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;

2 He is the minister of the true Holy Place, in the real tabernacle, that was set up by the Lord, and not by man.

3 For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices: so it follows that this one must also have something to offer.

4 In fact, if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, for there are already men who offer the gifts prescribed by the law:

5 They serve a copy and a shadow of what is in heaven, as God told Moses when he was going to erect the tabernacle: saying, See that you make everything according to the pattern shown to you on the mount.

6 ¶ But the ministry that Jesus has now been given, is as far superior to theirs as the covenant of which he is mediator is superior to the old one, being founded on better promises.

7 For if the first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no reason for the second.

8 But God found fault with the people, saying, 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:

9 Not like the covenant that I made with their forefathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; seeing that they did not continue in my covenant, and I ceased to take care of them, says the Lord.

10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be their God, and they will be my people:

11 And every man will no longer teach his neighbor, or his brother, saying, Know the Lord: because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest.

12 For I will forgive their unrighteousness, and I will no longer remember their sins and their iniquities.

13 By calling this covenant new, he has made the first old. And what is old and aging will soon disappear.