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;
02 A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true
tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.
03 For every high priest is ordained to offer
gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of
necessity that this man have somewhat also to
offer.
04 For if he were on earth, he should not be a
priest, seeing that there are priests that offer
gifts according to the law:
05 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.
06 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.
07 For if that first covenant had been faultless,
then should no place have been sought for the
second.
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08 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:
09 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.
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