Hebrews 8

Jesus Our High Priest

¹Now this is the main point of the things that we are saying: We have such a High Priest, who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,[#Col 3:1; Heb 1:3]

²a minister in the sanctuary and the true tabernacle, which the Lord, not man, set up.

³For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices. Therefore it is necessary that this priest also have something to offer.[#Heb 5:1; #Eph 5:2]

⁴For if He were on earth, He would not be a priest, since there are priests that offer gifts according to the law.

⁵They serve in a sanctuary that is an example and shadow of the heavenly one, as Moses was instructed by God when he was about to make the tabernacle, “See that you make all things according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.”[#Col 2:17; #Ex 25:40; #8:5 Ex 25:40.]

⁶But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, because He is the Mediator of a better covenant, which was established on better promises.[#2Co 3:6–11; Heb 7:22; 12:24]

⁷For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no occasion would have been sought for a second.[#Heb 7:11, 18]

⁸For finding fault with them, God says:

“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 rejected them, says the Lord.

¹⁰This 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 minds

and write them on their hearts;

and I will be their God,

and they shall be My people.

¹¹No longer shall every man teach his neighbor,

and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’

for all shall know Me,

from the least of them to the greatest.

¹²For I will be merciful toward their unrighteousness,

and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.”

¹³In speaking of a new covenant He has made the first one old. Now that which is decaying and growing old is ready to vanish away.[#2Co 5:17]