Hebrews 8
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- 1Here's the main point of everything we've been saying: we have a high priest who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens.
- 2He serves in the true sanctuary — the real tabernacle that the Lord set up, not one built by human hands.
- 3Every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices, so it's necessary that this high priest also have something to offer.
- 4If he were on earth, he wouldn't be a priest at all, since there are already priests who offer gifts according to the law.
- 5But those priests serve in a sanctuary that is only a copy and shadow of what exists in heaven. That's why God warned Moses when he was about to build the tabernacle: "See to it that you make everything according to the pattern I showed you on the mountain."
- 6But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry, as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which is established on better promises.
- 7If that first covenant had been without flaws, there would have been no need for a second one.
- 8But God found fault with the people and said, "Look, 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 did not regard them, says the Lord.
- 10"This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days," says the LORD. "I will put my laws into their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
- 11And no one will teach his neighbor, and no one will teach his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,' because all will know me, from the least to the greatest.
- 12For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and I will remember their sins and iniquities no more.
- 13By saying 'a new covenant,' he has made the first one old. Now what is decaying and growing old is ready to disappear.