Hebrews 8
1 Now the main point of what we are saying is this: we have such a high priest, who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven.
2 He serves in the sanctuary and in the true tent, which the Lord set up, not a human being.
3 For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices; so this one, too, had to have something to offer.
4 Now if he were on earth, he would not even be a priest, since there are those who offer gifts according to the Law.
5 They serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, just as Moses was instructed by God when he was about to build the tent. For he says, “See that you make everything according to the pattern shown to you on the mountain.”
6 But now he has obtained a much more excellent ministry, just as he is mediator of a better covenant, which was established on better promises.
7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no need to seek a place for a second.
8 For in correcting them, he says, “Look, days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah.
9 It will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors on the day I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt. For they did not remain in my covenant, and I stopped caring for them, says the Lord.
10 For this is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
11 No longer will each person teach a fellow citizen, or each teach a brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ because they will all know me, from the least to the greatest among them.
12 For I will be merciful toward their injustices, and I will never again remember their sins.”
13 By calling it “new,” he has made the first covenant old; and what becomes old and grows aged is close to disappearing.
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