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1 | Now 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; |
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2 | A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which
the Lord pitched, and not man. |
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3 | For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and
sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have
somewhat also to offer. |
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4 | For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing
that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law: |
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5 | Who 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. |
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6 | But 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. |
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7 | For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no
place have been sought for the second. |
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8 | For 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: |
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9 | Not 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. |
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10 | For 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: |
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11 | And 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. |
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12 | For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their
sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. |
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13 | In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old.
Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish
away. |
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