Bible, King James Version
Hebrews
Heb.8
[1] 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;
[2] A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true
tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.
[3] For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and
sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have
somewhat also to offer.
[4] For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest,
seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the
law:
[5] Who 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.
[6] But 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.
[7] For if that first covenant had been faultless, then
should no place have been sought for the second.
[8] For 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:
[9] Not 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.
[10] For 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:
[11] And 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.
[12] For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and
their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
[13] In 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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