Hebrews

8

The Greatness of His Ministry

¹Now 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;[ † ]Psalms 68:18Psalms 110:1Ephesians 1:20Colossians 3:1Hebrews 2:17Hebrews 3:1Hebrews 10:12 ²a minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.[ † ]Hebrews 9:8-12Hebrews 9:11-24 ³For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer.[ † ]Romans 4:25Romans 5:6-8Galatians 2:20Ephesians 5:2Hebrews 5:1Hebrews 8:4Hebrews 9:14 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 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.[ † ]Hebrews 9:23-24Colossians 2:17Hebrews 10:1Exodus 25:40 ⁶But 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.[ † ]2 Corinthians 3:6-8Luke 22:20Hebrews 7:22 ⁷For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.[ † ]Exodus 3:8Exodus 19:5

⁸For 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:

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, saith the Lord.

¹⁰For 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:

¹¹And 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.

¹²For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness,

And their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.

¹³In that he saith, A new covenant , he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.[ † ]2 Corinthians 5:17Hebrews 1:11