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But Jesus[a] has now obtained a more excellent ministry, and to that degree he is the mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted on the basis of better promises.(A) For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no need to look for a second one.(B)

God[b] finds fault with them when he says:

“The days are surely coming, says the Lord,
    when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel
    and with the house of Judah,(C)
not like the covenant that I made with their ancestors
    on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt,
for they did not continue in my covenant,
    and so I had no concern for them, says the Lord.
10 This is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel
    after those days, says the Lord:
I will put my laws in their minds
    and write them on their hearts,
and I will be their God,
    and they shall be my people.(D)
11 And they shall not teach one another
    or say to each other,[c] ‘Know the Lord,’
for they shall all know me,
    from the least of them to the greatest.(E)
12 For I will be merciful toward their iniquities,
    and I will remember their sins[d] no more.”(F)

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Footnotes

  1. 8.6 Gk he
  2. 8.8 Gk He
  3. 8.11 Or teach each one their fellow-citizen and each one their sibling, saying
  4. 8.12 Other ancient authorities add and their lawless deeds