THE BLESSING OF A BETTER COVENANT
Hebrews 8:1-13: 1Now 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; 2A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord
pitched, and not man. 3For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices:
wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer. 4For if he were
on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts
according to the law: 5Who 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. 6But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is
the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises. 7For
if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the
second. 8For 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:
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 continued not in
my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. 10For 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: 11And 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. 12For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their
iniquities will I remember no more. 13In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made
the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.