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| 8:1 |
Now the main point in what we are saying is this: we have such a high priest, one who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,
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| 8:2 |
a minister in the sanctuary and the true tent that the Lord, and not any mortal, has set up.
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| 8:3 |
For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices; hence it is necessary for this priest also to have something to offer.
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| 8:4 |
Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, since there are priests who offer gifts according to the law.
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| 8:5 |
They offer worship in a sanctuary that is a sketch and shadow of the heavenly one; for Moses, when he was about to erect the tent, was warned, "See that you make everything according to the pattern that was shown you on the mountain."
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| 8:6 |
But Jesus has now obtained a more excellent ministry, and to that degree he is the mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted through better promises.
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| 8:7 |
For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no need to look for a second one.
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| 8:8 |
God finds fault with them when he says: "The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah;
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| 8:9 |
not like the covenant that I made with their ancestors, on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; for they did not continue in my covenant, and so I had no concern for them, says the Lord.
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| 8:10 |
This is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my laws in their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
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| 8:11 |
And they shall not teach one another or say to each other, 'Know the Lord,' for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest.
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| 8:12 |
For I will be merciful toward their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more."
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| 8:13 |
In speaking of "a new covenant," he has made the first one obsolete. And what is obsolete and growing old will soon disappear.
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