THE EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE 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 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 ⚑

King James Version (1769) with Apocrypha · Crosswire Bible Society / eBible.org (standard text of 1769) · Public Domain

Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · public domain