A Better Ministry
1 Now the main point in what has been saidis 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,
2 a minister in the sanctuary and in the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man.
3 For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices; so it is necessary that thishigh priestalso have something to offer.
4 Now 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;
5 who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, just as Moses was warnedby Godwhen he was about to erect the tabernacle; for, “See,” He says, “that you makeall thingsaccording to the pattern which was shown you on the mountain.”
6 But 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
7 For if that firstcovenanthad been faultless, there would have been no occasion sought for a second.
8 For finding fault with them, He says,
“Behold,days are coming,says theLord,
WhenIwill effect a new covenant
With the house ofIsrael and with the house ofJudah;
9 Not like the covenant whichImade with their fathers
On the day whenItook them by the hand
To lead them out of the land ofEgypt;
For they did not continue inMy covenant,
AndIdid not care for them,says theLord.
10 For this is the covenant thatIwill make with the house ofIsrael
After those days,says theLord:
Iwill putMy laws into their minds,
AndIwill write them on their hearts.
AndIwill be theirGod,
And they shall beMy people.
11 And they shall not teach everyone his fellow citizen,
And everyone his brother,saying, ‘Know theLord,’
For all will knowMe,
From the least to the greatest of them.
12 ForIwill be merciful to their iniquities,
AndIwill remember their sins no more.”
13 When He said, “A newcovenant,” He has made the first obsolete. But whatever is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to disappear.
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