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Chapter 8 |
| 1 | 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;
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| 2 | A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord
pitched, and not man. |
| 3 | For every high priest is ordained to offer
gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat
also to offer. |
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4 | For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest,
seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law: |
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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. |
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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. |
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7 | For if that first covenant had been faultless, then
should no place have been sought for the second. |
| 8 | 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:
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| 9 | 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: |
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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. |
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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. |
