Hebrews 8:7-13

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⁷^(A)For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion to look for a second.

⁸For he finds fault with them when he says:^[a]

^(B)“Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord,
    when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel
    and with the house of Judah,
⁹not like the covenant that I made with their fathers
    on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt.
For they did not continue in my covenant,
    and so I showed no concern for them, declares the Lord.
¹⁰^(C)For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel
    after those days, declares the Lord:
I will put my laws into their minds,
    and ^(D)write them on their hearts,
and I will be their God,
    and they shall be my people.
¹¹And they shall not teach, each one his neighbor
    and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’
for they shall ^(E)all know me,
    from the least of them to the greatest.
¹²For I will be merciful toward their iniquities,
    ^(F)and I will remember their sins no more.”

¹³In speaking of a new covenant, he makes the first one obsolete. And ^(G)what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.

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Hebrews 8:8 Some manuscripts For finding fault with it he says to them

Hebrews 9:15-17

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¹⁵Therefore he is ^(A)the mediator of a new covenant, so that ^(B)those who are called may ^(C)receive the promised eternal inheritance, ^(D)since a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.^[a] ¹⁶For where a will is involved, the death of the one who made it must be established. ¹⁷For ^(E)a will takes effect only at death, since it is not in force as long as the one who made it is alive.