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The Holy Bible: King James Version. 2000.

The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the
Hebrews

Hebrews 8


The Mediator of a New Covenant
1  Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such a high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens; Ps. 110.1
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. Ex. 25.40
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 neighbor,
        
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. Jer. 31.31-34
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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