Heb 8
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Now in the things which we are saying the chief point [is this]: We have such a high
priest, who sat down on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,
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a minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not
man.
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For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it
is necessary that this [high priest] also have somewhat to offer.
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Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, seeing there are those who
offer the gifts according to the law;
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who serve [that which is] a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses
is warned [of God] when he is about to make the tabernacle: for, See, says he, that
you make all things according to the pattern that was showed you in the mount.
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But now has he obtained a ministry the more excellent, by so much as he is also the
mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted upon better promises.
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For if that first [covenant] had been faultless, then would no place have been sought
for a second.
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For finding fault with them, he says, Behold, the days come, says the Lord, That I
will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah;
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Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers In the day that
I took them by the hand to lead them forth out of the land of Egypt; For they
continued not in my covenant, And I regarded them not, says the Lord.
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For 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 on their heart also will
I write them: And I will be to them a God, And they shall be to me a people:
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And they shall not teach every man his fellow-citizen, And every man his brother,
saying, Know the Lord: For all shall know me, From the least to the greatest of them.
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For I will be merciful to their iniquities, And their sins will I remember no more.
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In that he says, A new [covenant] he has made the first old. But that which is becoming
old and waxes aged is nigh to vanishing away.