Hebrews 8

¹The capstone of what we are discussing is this: we have such a high priest, who has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of Majesty in the heavens, ²a sanctuary-minister of the holy places and of the authentic tabernacle—the one pitched by the Lord and not by any human.

³Now, every high priest is appointed for the purpose of offering both gifts and sacrifices; consequently, it was necessary for this one also to have something to offer. ⁴If he were on earth, he would not even be a priest, since there are already those who offer the gifts according to the law. ⁵These priests serve a mere sketch and a shadow of the heavenly realities, just as Moses was divinely instructed when he was about to construct the tabernacle: “See to it,” he says, “that you make everything according to the pattern shown to you on the mountain.” ⁶But as it is, he has attained a far superior ministry, in proportion to the better covenant of which he is the mediator—a covenant that has been legally established upon better promises.

⁷For if that first covenant had been faultless, no place would have been sought for a second. ⁸But finding fault with the people, he says: “Look, the days are coming,” says the Lord, “when I will complete a new covenant for the house of Israel and for the house of Judah. ⁹It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers on the day I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they did not remain faithful to my covenant, I in turn lost interest in them,” says the Lord. ¹⁰“For this is the covenant I will establish with the house of Israel after those days,” says the Lord: “I will place my laws into their minds and write them upon their hearts; I will be their God, and they will be my people. ¹¹And they will absolutely not teach—each one his fellow-citizen and each one his brother—saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest. ¹²For I will be merciful toward their injustices, and I will never again remember their sins.”

¹³By saying “New,” he has rendered the first covenant obsolete. And whatever is becoming obsolete and growing old is on the verge of vanishing completely.