Hebrews 8:6-13

Common English Bible

⁶But now, Jesus has received a superior priestly service just as he arranged a better covenant that is enacted with better promises.

⁷If the first covenant had been without fault, it wouldn’t have made sense to expect a second. ⁸But God did find fault with them, since he says,

Look, the days are coming, says the Lord,
        when I will make a covenant with the house of Israel,
        and I will make a new covenant with the house of Judah.
⁹It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors
    on the day I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt,
        because they did not continue to keep my covenant,
        and I lost interest in them, says the Lord.
¹⁰This is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel
        after those days, says the Lord.
I will place my laws in their minds,
        and write them on their hearts.
I will be their God,
    and they will be my people.
¹¹    And each person won’t ever teach a neighbor
    or their brother or sister, saying, “Know the Lord,”
        because they will all know me,
            from the least important of them to the most important;
¹²        because I will be lenient toward their unjust actions,
            and I won’t remember their sins anymore.^[a]