Hebrews 8:6-13 ▼

6 Our high priest then has obtained a priesthood so much the more excellent, as he is the mediator of a better alliance, established upon better promises.

7 for if the first alliance had been without defect, there could have been no occasion for the second.

8 nor for that reproach, which was made to our fathers, where 'tis said, "behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new alliance with the house of Israel, and with the house of Juda:

9 not according to the alliance that I made with their fathers, when I took them by the hand, to lead them out of the land of Egypt; for they have not kept my alliance, wherefore I have rejected them, saith the Lord.

10 but this is the alliance 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: I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

11 they shall no longer instruct 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 pardon their iniquity, and their sins and their trangressions will I remember no more."

13 now by stiling the second a new alliance, he has antiquated the first, but to be antiquated and obsolete is next to being abolished.