HEBREWS CHAPTER VIII.

[1 The excellency of Christ's ministry, 6 being the mediator of a better covenant.]

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;
2 A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true
tabernacle which the Lord pitched, and not man. 
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. 
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:
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.
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.
7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then
should no place have been sought for the second. 
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:
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.
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:
11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbor,
and every man his brother, saying, Know the 
Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the 
greatest. 
12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness,
and their sins and their iniquities will I remember 
no more. 
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.