A Heavenly Priesthood
A Superior Covenant
7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion for a second one. 8 But finding fault with His people,[c] He says:[d]
when I will make a new covenant
with the house of Israel
and with the house of Judah—
9 not like the covenant
that I made with their ancestors
on the day I took them by their hands
to lead them out of the land of Egypt.
I disregarded them, says the Lord,
because they did not continue in My covenant.
10 But 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 write them on their hearts.
I will be their God,
and they will be My people.
11 And each person will not teach his fellow citizen,[e]
and each his brother, saying, “Know the Lord,”
because they will all know Me,
from the least to the greatest of them.
12 For I will be merciful to their wrongdoing,
and I will never again remember their sins.[f][g]
13 By saying, a new covenant, He has declared that the first is old. And what is old and aging is about to disappear.
Footnotes
- Hebrews 8:4 Other mss read priests
- Hebrews 8:5 Ex 25:40
- Hebrews 8:8 Lit with them
- Hebrews 8:8 Other mss read finding fault, He says to them
- Hebrews 8:11 Other mss read neighbor
- Hebrews 8:12 Other mss add and their lawless deeds
- Hebrews 8:12 Jr 31:31-34