Hebrews 8
1Now
of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne
of the Majesty in the heavens;
2A minister
of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.
3For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that
this man have somewhat also to offer.
4For
if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law:
5Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was
admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the
pattern shewed to thee in the mount.
6But
now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established
upon better promises.
7For if that first covenant
had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.
8For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith 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 continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.
10For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after
those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God,
and they shall be to me a people:
11And they
shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the
least to the greatest.
12For I will be merciful
to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
13In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth
old is ready to vanish away.
