A Better Ministry
1Now the main point in what has been said
is this: we have such a high priest, who has taken His seat at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,
2a minister in the sanctuary and in the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man.
3For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices; so it is necessary that this
high priest also have something to offer.
4Now if He were on earth, He would not be a priest at all, since there are those who offer the gifts according to the Law;
5who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, just as Moses was warned
by God when he was about to erect the tabernacle; for, S
EE, He says,
THAT YOU MAKE all things
ACCORDING TO THE PATTERN WHICH WAS SHOWN YOU ON THE MOUNTAIN.
6But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, by as much as He is also the mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted on better promises.
A New Covenant
7For if that first
covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion sought for a second.
8For finding fault with them, He says,
B
EHOLD,
DAYS ARE COMING,
SAYS THE L
ORD,
W
HEN I
WILL EFFECT A NEW COVENANT W
ITH THE HOUSE OF I
SRAEL AND WITH THE HOUSE OF J
UDAH;
9N
OT LIKE THE COVENANT WHICH I
MADE WITH THEIR FATHERS O
N THE DAY WHEN I
TOOK THEM BY THE HAND T
O LEAD THEM OUT OF THE LAND OF E
GYPT;
F
OR THEY DID NOT CONTINUE IN M
Y COVENANT,
A
ND I
DID NOT CARE FOR THEM,
SAYS THE L
ORD.
10F
OR THIS IS THE COVENANT THAT I
WILL MAKE WITH THE HOUSE OF I
SRAEL A
FTER THOSE DAYS,
SAYS THE L
ORD:
I
WILL PUT M
Y LAWS INTO THEIR MINDS,
A
ND I
WILL WRITE THEM ON THEIR HEARTS.
A
ND I
WILL BE THEIR G
OD,
A
ND THEY SHALL BE M
Y PEOPLE.
11A
ND THEY SHALL NOT TEACH EVERYONE HIS FELLOW CITIZEN,
A
ND EVERYONE HIS BROTHER,
SAYING, K
NOW THE L
ORD,
F
OR ALL WILL KNOW M
E,
F
ROM THE LEAST TO THE GREATEST OF THEM.
12F
OR I
WILL BE MERCIFUL TO THEIR INIQUITIES,
A
ND I
WILL REMEMBER THEIR SINS NO MORE.
13When He said, A new
covenant, He has made the first obsolete. But whatever is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to disappear.
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