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| 8:1 |
Now the main point in what has been said [is this]: we have such a high priest, who has taken His seat 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 in the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man.
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| 8:3 |
For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices; hence it is necessary that this [high priest] also 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 those who offer the gifts according to the Law;
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| 8:5 |
who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, just as Moses was warned [by God] when he was about to erect the tabernacle; for, "See," He says, "that you make all things according to the pattern which was shown you on the mountain."
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| 8:6 |
But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, by as much as He is also the mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted on better promises.
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| 8:7 |
For if that first [covenant] had been faultless, there would have been no occasion sought for a second.
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| 8:8 |
For finding fault with them, He says, "Behold, days are coming, says the Lord, When I will effect a new covenant With the house of Israel and with the house of Judah;
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| 8:9 |
Not like the covenant which 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 continue in My covenant, And I did not care for them, says the Lord.
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| 8:10 |
"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 minds, And I will write them upon 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 everyone his fellow citizen, And everyone his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,' For all shall know Me, From the least to the greatest of them.
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| 8:12 |
"For I will be merciful to their iniquities, And I will remember their sins no more."
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| 8:13 |
When He said, "A new [covenant]," He has made the first obsolete. But whatever is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to disappear.
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