Now the main point of what we are saying is this: we have such a high priest, who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,a minister of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord set up, not a human being.For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices, so this high priest too must have something to offer.Now if he were on earth, he would not even be a priest, since there are those who offer gifts according to the law.They serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, just as Moses was warned when he was about to construct the tabernacle. For he says, “See that you make everything according to the pattern shown to you on the mountain.”But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry, just as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, established on better promises.For if that first covenant had been faultless, no place would have been sought for a second.For finding fault with them, he says, “Look, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah,not like the covenant I made with their ancestors on the day I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, because they did not remain in my covenant, and I disregarded them, says the Lord.For this is the covenant 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.No one will teach his fellow citizen, or his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ because they will all know me, from the least to the greatest among them.For I will be merciful toward their unrighteous deeds, and I will remember their sins no more.”In saying “new,” he has made the first covenant obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is near to disappearing.
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Holy Bible, BibliaTodo New Translation (BTNT). Published by BibliaTodo Bible Society, an imprint of BibliaTodo LLC.