KJV Easy Read Bible The New Priestly Service1Now 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; main point 2A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man. tent of meeting 3For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have something also to offer. appointed 4For if He were on earth, He should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law: 5Who serve to the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, says He, that you make all things according to the pattern showed to you in the mount. EX 25:40 6But now has He obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also He is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises. JER 31:31 | superior; agreement A New Covenant7For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. 8For finding fault with them, He says, Behold, the days come, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: JER 31:31 9Not 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, says the Lord. 10For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says 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: JER 31:31–34; 2 COR 3:6; HEB 8:6 11And 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. 12For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. 13In that He says, A new covenant, He has made the first old. Now that which decays and waxes old is ready to vanish away. grows The Trusted King James in an Easy Read Format® is a registered trademarks of Whitaker Corporation. KJVERTM, Word of GodTM, Red Letter OldTM, Old Testament Direct Words of God in RedTM, King James Version Sword BibleTM, and SwordKJVTM are trademarked slogans of Whitaker Corporation. |
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