Hebrews Chapter Eight

1    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;

2    A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.

3    For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices:  wherefore it is of necessity that this man
    have somewhat also to offer.

4    For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according
    to the law:

5    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. 

6    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.

7    For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.

8    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:

9    Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in that day when I took them by the hand
    to lead them out of the land of Egypt;  because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them
    not, saith the Lord.

10    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:

11    And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord:
    for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.

12    For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.

13    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.


    Hebrews Chapter Eight - KJV