The Book of Hebrews
Chapter 8
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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;
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A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.
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For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer.
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For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law:
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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.
Exod 25:40
Exod 26:30
Acts 7:44
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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.
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For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.
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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:
Jer 31:31
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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:
Jer 31:33
Heb 10:16
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For I will
be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will
I remember no more.
Jer 31:34
Heb 10:17
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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.
Jer 31:31