HebEb HebrewsEbrei, chaptercapitolo Epistle to the HebrewsLettera agli Ebrei, chaptercapitolo 8

Now in the things which we are saying the chief point is this: We have such a high priest, who sat down on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, Heb 1:3; Heb 3:1; Heb 4:14; Heb 7:26a minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man. Heb 10:21For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is necessary that this high priest also have somewhat to offer. Eph 5:2Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, seeing there are those who offer the gifts according to the law; who serve that which is a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses is warned of God when he is about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern that was showed thee in the mount. Exo 25:40; Act 7:44; Col 2:17; Heb 10:1But now hath he obtained a ministry the more excellent, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which hath been enacted upon better promises. Heb 7:16; Heb 9:13For if that first covenant had been faultless, then would no place have been sought for a second. For finding fault with them, he saith,

Behold, the days come, saith the Lord,

That I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah;Jer 31:31; Jer 32:37; Rom 11:27; Heb 10:16

Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers

In the day that I took them by the hand to lead them forth out of the land of Egypt;

For they continued not in my covenant,

And I regarded them not, saith the Lord.

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 on their heart also will I write them:

And I will be to them a God,

And they shall be to me a people:Jer 24:7; Jer 32:38; Ezk 11:20; Zec 8:8; 2Co 6:16

And they shall not teach every man his fellow-citizen,

And every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord:

For all shall know me,

From the least to the greatest of them.Isa 54:13; 1Jn 2:27

For I will be merciful to their iniquities,

And their sins will I remember no more.Jer 31:31; Heb 10:17

In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. But that which is becoming old and waxeth aged is nigh unto vanishing away.