Chapter 08 - A new covenant

1 Now 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);

2 A minister (of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle) which the Lord pitched, and not man.

3 For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer.

4 For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law:

5 Who 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.

6 But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant[1], which was established upon better promises.

7 For if that first covenant[1] had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.

8 For 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:

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 continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.

10 For 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:

11 And 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.

12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more2.

13 In that he saith,

A new covenant, he hath made the first old. 

Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.

Chapter 9

1. Definition:a binding agreement; contract

2. Read: Jeremiah 31:31 - 34  Read: Ezekiel 11:20;  Ezekiel 36:28