ISV - Hebrews - 8

8:1  Christ Has a Better MinistryNow the main point in what we are saying is this: we do have this kind of high priest, who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven

8:2  and who serves in the sanctuary, the true tabernacle set up by the Lord and not by any human.

8:3  For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices. Therefore, this high priestLit. this one had to offer something too.

8:4  Now if he were on earth, he would not even be a priest, because other men offer the gifts prescribed by the law.

8:5  They serve in a sanctuary that is a copy and shadow of the heavenly one. This is why Moses was warned when he was about to build the tabernacle: “See to it that you make everything according to the pattern that was shown you on the mountain.”Exod 25:40

8:6  However, JesusLit. he has now obtained a ministry that is as superior to theirs as the covenant he mediates is founded on better promises.

8:7  The New Covenant Is Better Than the OldFor if the first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no need to look for a second one.

8:8  But GodLit. he found something wrong with his peopleLit. with them when he said, “Look! The days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will establish a new covenantwith the house of Israeland with the house of Judah.

8:9  It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors at the timewhen I took them by the handand brought them out of the land of Egypt. Because they did not remain loyal to my covenant,I ignored them, declares the Lord.

8:10  For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israelafter those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws in their mindsand write them on their hearts. I will be their God,and they will be my people.

8:11  Never again will everyone teach his neighbor or his brother by saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ because all of them will know me,from the least important to the most important.

8:12  For I will be merciful regarding their wrong deeds,and I will never again remember their sins.”Jer 31:31-34

8:13  In speaking of a “new” covenant, he has made the first one obsolete, and what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear.