Hebrews 8

¹Now the main point of what is being said: we have such a high priest, who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,

²a minister of the holy places and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched and not man.

³For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices; wherefore it is necessary for this one also to have something to offer.

⁴If then He were on earth, He would not even be a priest, since there are those who offer gifts according to the law.

⁵who serve in a sketch and shadow of the heavenly things, just as Moses was divinely instructed when about to construct the tabernacle; for He says: See that you make all things according to the pattern shown to you on the mountain.

⁶But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, insofar as He is also the mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted on better promises.

⁷For if that first covenant had been faultless, no room would have been sought for a second.

⁸For finding fault with them, He says: Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, and I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah,

⁹not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; for they did not remain 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 Lord: I will put my laws into their mind, and I will inscribe them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.

¹¹And they shall certainly not teach, each one his fellow citizen and each one his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord!' for all will know me, from the least of them to the greatest.

¹²for I will be merciful toward their iniquities, and their sins and their lawless acts I will certainly remember no more.

¹³By saying 'new,' He has made the first obsolete. And what is growing old and aging is near to vanishing.