Hebrews 8

Jesus Is Our High Priest

1Here is the point of what we are saying: We do have a high priest who sits on the right side of God’s throne in heaven. 2Our high priest serves in the Most Holy Place. He serves in the true place of worship that was made by God, not by men.

3Every high priest has the work of offering gifts and sacrifices to God. So our high priest must also offer something to God. 4If our high priest were now living on earth, he would not be a priest. I say this because there are already priests here who follow the law by offering gifts to God. 5The work that they do as priests is only a dim copy of what is in heaven. For when Moses was ready to build the Holy Tent, God warned him: “Be very careful to make everything by the plan I showed you on the mountain.”# Quotation from Exodus 25:40. 6But the priestly work that has been given to Jesus is much greater than the work that was given to the other priests. In the same way, the new agreement that Jesus brought from God to his people is much greater than the old one. And the new agreement is based on promises of better things.

7If there was nothing wrong with the first agreement,# The contract God gave the Jewish people when he gave them the law of Moses. there would be no need for a second agreement. 8But God found something wrong with his people. He says:# Some Greek copies read “But God found something wrong and says to his people.”

“The time is coming, says the Lord,

when I will make a new agreement.

It will be with the people of Israel

and the people of Judah.

9It will not be like the agreement

I made with their ancestors.

That was when I took them by the hand

to bring them out of Egypt.

But they broke that agreement,

and I turned away from them, says the Lord.

10In the future I will make this agreement

with the people of Israel, says the Lord.

I will put my teachings in their minds.

And I will write them on their hearts.

I will be their God,

and they will be my people.

11People will no longer have to teach

their neighbors and relatives to know the Lord.

This is because all will know me,

from the least to the most important.

12I will forgive them for the wicked things they did.

I will not remember their sins anymore.” Jeremiah 31:31-34

13God called this a new agreement, so he has made the first agreement old. And anything that is old and worn out is ready to disappear.

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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; 2a minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man. 3For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer. 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. 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. 7For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. 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.

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