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;
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 neighbour, 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.”
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