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The New Covenant and Christ’s Heavenly Ministry

Hebrews 8:1-13

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Chapter 8
1 Now the main point of the things being spoken is this: we have such a high priest, who has sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, 2 a minister of the holy things and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not a human. 3 For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices; hence it is necessary for this one also to have something to offer. 4 If then he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, there being those who offer the gifts according to the law. 5 who serve as a model and shadow of the heavenly realm, just as Moses, when he was about to complete the tabernacle, was divinely warned: "See," he says, "you shall do all things according to the pattern shown to 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. 7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, no place would have been sought for a second one. 8 For finding fault with them, he says: "Behold, days are coming, says the Lord, when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah." 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 did not remain in my covenant, and I disregarded them, says the Lord. 10 because this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my laws into their mind, and on their hearts I will write them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people. 11 And they shall by no means teach each his fellow citizen and each his brother, saying, "Know the Lord," because they will all know me, from the least to the greatest among them. 12 because I will be merciful to their unrighteousnesses, and I will certainly not remember their sins any longer. 13 In saying "New," he has made the first obsolete, but the one being made obsolete and growing old is near destruction.