Holy Bible
(King James Version)
Hebrews:
Chapter 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 the 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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