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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; |
| 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. |
| 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: |
| 5 | 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.
Exod 25:40 Exod 26:30 Acts 7:44 |
| 6 | 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. |
| 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:
Jer 31:31 |
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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.
Jer 31:32 |
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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:
Jer 31:33 Heb 10:16 |
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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.
Jer 31:34 |
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For I will
be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will
I remember no more.
Jer 31:34 Heb 10:17 |
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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.
Jer 31:31 |