BG - New Testament

Chapter 8

Christ offered Himself as a sacrifice for sin—God promised to make a new covenant with Israel.

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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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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