Hebrews 8

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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 showed 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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