Hebrews 8
8
Jesus’ Priestly Work Is Superior to Other Priests’ Work
1The main point we want to make is this: We do have this kind of chief priest. This chief priest holds the honored position—the one next to the majestic God [the Father] on the heavenly throne. 2He serves as priest of the holy place and of the true tent set up by the Lord and not by any human.
3Every chief priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices. Therefore, this chief priest had to offer something. 4If he were on earth, he would not even be a priest. On earth ⌞other⌟ priests offer gifts by following the instructions that Moses gave. 5They serve at a place that is a pattern, a shadow, of what is in heaven. When Moses was about to make the tent, God warned him, “Be sure to make everything based on the plan I showed you on the mountain.”
6Jesus has been given a priestly work that is superior to the Levitical priests’ work. He also brings a better promise #8:6 Or “covenant.” from God that is based on better guarantees. 7If nothing had been wrong with the first promise, no one would look for another one. 8But God found something wrong with his people and said to them,
“The days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new promise to Israel and Judah. 9It will not be like the promise that I made to their ancestors when I took them by the hand and brought them out of Egypt. They rejected that promise, so I ignored them, says the Lord. 10But this is the promise that I will make to Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my teachings inside them, and I will write those teachings on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. 11No longer will each person teach his neighbors or his relatives by saying, ‘Know the Lord.’ All of them from the least important to the most important will all know me 12because I will forgive their wickedness and I will no longer hold their sins against them.”
13God made this new promise and showed that the first promise was outdated. What is outdated and aging will soon disappear.
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Hebrews 8
8
The New Priestly Service
1Now this is the main point of the things we are saying: We have such a High Priest, #Ps. 68:18; 110:1; Eph. 1:20; Col. 3:1; Heb. 2:17; 3:1; 10:12who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, 2a Minister of #Heb. 9:8, 12the sanctuary and of #Heb. 9:11, 24the true tabernacle which the Lord erected, and not man.
3For #(Rom. 4:25; 5:6, 8; Gal. 2:20; Eph. 5:2); Heb. 5:1; 8:4every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices. Therefore #(Eph. 5:2; Heb. 9:14)it is necessary that this One also have something to offer. 4For if He were on earth, He would not be a priest, since there are priests who offer the gifts according to the law; 5who serve #Heb. 9:23, 24the copy and #Col. 2:17; Heb. 10:1shadow of the heavenly things, as Moses was divinely instructed when he was about to make the tabernacle. For He said, #Ex. 25:40“See that you make all things according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.” 6But now #(2 Cor. 3:6–8)He has obtained a more excellent ministry, inasmuch as He is also Mediator of a #(Luke 22:20); Heb. 7:22better covenant, which was established on better promises.
A New Covenant
7For if that #Ex. 3:8; 19:5first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second. 8Because finding fault with them, He says: #Jer. 31:31–34“Behold, the days are coming, says 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 did not continue in My covenant, and I disregarded them, says the Lord. 10For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the #Jer. 31:33; Rom. 11:27; Heb. 10:16Lord: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and #Zech. 8:8I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 11#Is. 54:13; John 6:45; (1 John 2:27)None of them shall teach his neighbor, and none his brother, saying, ‘Know the #Jer. 31:34Lord,’ for all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them. 12For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, #Rom. 11:27and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.”
13#(2 Cor. 5:17); Heb. 1:11In that He says, “A new covenant,” He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.
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