A Better Ministry
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,
2 a minister in the sanctuary and in the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man.
3 For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices; so it is necessary that this
high priest also have something to offer.
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;
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, S
EE, He says,
THAT YOU MAKE all things
ACCORDING TO THE PATTERN WHICH WAS SHOWN YOU ON THE MOUNTAIN.
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.
A New Covenant
7 For if that first
covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion sought for a second.
8 For finding fault with them, He says,
B
EHOLD,
DAYS ARE COMING,
SAYS THE L
ORD,
W
HEN I
WILL EFFECT A NEW COVENANT W
ITH THE HOUSE OF I
SRAEL AND WITH THE HOUSE OF J
UDAH;
9 N
OT LIKE THE COVENANT WHICH I
MADE WITH THEIR FATHERS O
N THE DAY WHEN I
TOOK THEM BY THE HAND T
O LEAD THEM OUT OF THE LAND OF E
GYPT;
F
OR THEY DID NOT CONTINUE IN M
Y COVENANT,
A
ND I
DID NOT CARE FOR THEM,
SAYS THE L
ORD.
10 F
OR THIS IS THE COVENANT THAT I
WILL MAKE WITH THE HOUSE OF I
SRAEL A
FTER THOSE DAYS,
SAYS THE L
ORD:
I
WILL PUT M
Y LAWS INTO THEIR MINDS,
A
ND I
WILL WRITE THEM ON THEIR HEARTS.
A
ND I
WILL BE THEIR G
OD,
A
ND THEY SHALL BE M
Y PEOPLE.
11 A
ND THEY SHALL NOT TEACH EVERYONE HIS FELLOW CITIZEN,
A
ND EVERYONE HIS BROTHER,
SAYING, K
NOW THE L
ORD,
F
OR ALL WILL KNOW M
E,
F
ROM THE LEAST TO THE GREATEST OF THEM.
12 F
OR I
WILL BE MERCIFUL TO THEIR INIQUITIES,
A
ND I
WILL REMEMBER THEIR SINS NO MORE.
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.