New Testament · Letters

Hebrews chapter 8

Here’s the main point of everything we’ve been saying: we have exactly this kind of — one who at the right hand of the throne of the in the heavens.He serves in the true — the real that was set up by the Lord himself, not by any human being.Every high priest is appointed to offer both , so it was necessary for this one to also have something to offer.Now if he were on earth, he wouldn’t even be a priest, since there are already priests who offer the gifts required by .These priests serve in a place that’s just a of the heavenly reality. That’s why Moses was warned when he was about to build the tent of meeting: “Make sure you build everything according to that was shown to you on the mountain.”But as it is, has been given a far superior priestly role, just as the he is better — because it’s been established on better promises.Because if that first covenant had been without flaws, there would have been no need to look for a second one.But God and said: “Look — the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will establish a new covenant with the people of and the people of Judah.”“It won’t be like the covenant I made with their ancestors on the day I and led them out of . They to my covenant, so I turned away from them, says the Lord.”“This is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my inside their and write them on their . I will be their God, and they will be my people.”“No one will need to teach their neighbor or their brother, saying, ‘ the Lord,’ because every single one of them will know me — .”“Because I will be toward their , and I will never hold their against them again.”By calling it “,” he made the first one . And anything that’s obsolete and aging is about to disappear.