Chapter 8
Now 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.
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