Hebreos 8
La Palabra (Hispanoamérica)
Jesucristo, mediador de una nueva y más valiosa alianza
8 Este es el punto central de cuanto venimos diciendo: que tenemos, junto al trono celestial de Dios, un sumo sacerdote 2 que desempeña sus funciones en el santuario, en la verdadera Tienda de la presencia, construida no por seres humanos sino por el Señor.
3 Y como todo sumo sacerdote ha sido instituido para ofrecer dones y sacrificios, es preciso que también Cristo tenga algo que ofrecer. 4 Ciertamente aquí en la tierra su sacerdocio no tendría razón de ser, al existir ya otros sacerdotes que presentan las ofrendas prescritas por la ley de Moisés. 5 Pero estos sacerdotes celebran un culto que es únicamente sombra y figura de las realidades celestiales. Así se lo dio a entender Dios a Moisés cuando este se disponía a construir la Tienda de la presencia: Mira —le dijo— hazlo todo según el modelo que te ha sido mostrado en el monte. 6 En realidad, ahora Cristo ha recibido un ministerio tanto más excelso cuanto mayor es la alianza de la que es mediador y cuanto de más valor son las promesas en que está cimentada. 7 No habría habido, en efecto, lugar para una segunda alianza, de haber sido perfecta la primera. 8 De hecho, Dios recrimina así a los destinatarios de la primera:
He aquí que llega el tiempo —dice el Señor—
en que yo sellaré una alianza nueva
con el pueblo de Israel y el de Judá.
9 No será como la alianza
que sellé con sus antepasados,
cuando los tomé de la mano
y los saqué de Egipto.
Como ellos quebrantaron mi alianza,
también yo los abandoné —dice el Señor—.
10 Así que esta será —dice el Señor—
la alianza que sellaré con Israel
cuando llegue aquel día:
inculcaré mis leyes en su mente
y las escribiré en su corazón;
yo seré su Dios y ellos serán mi pueblo.
11 Ya nadie tendrá que enseñar a su vecino
ni tendrá que instruir a su hermano diciendo:
“reconoce al Señor”,
porque todos me conocerán,
desde el más pequeño hasta el mayor.
12 Y yo perdonaré sus iniquidades
y no me acordaré más de sus pecados.
13 Al llamar nueva a esta alianza, Dios está declarando vieja a la primera; y todo lo que se queda viejo y anticuado está a punto de desaparecer.
Hebrews 8
King James Version
8 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 the 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 8
New International Version
The High Priest of a New Covenant
8 Now the main point of what we are saying is this: We do have such a high priest,(A) who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven,(B) 2 and who serves in the sanctuary, the true tabernacle(C) set up by the Lord, not by a mere human being.
3 Every high priest(D) is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices,(E) and so it was necessary for this one also to have something to offer.(F) 4 If he were on earth, he would not be a priest, for there are already priests who offer the gifts prescribed by the law.(G) 5 They serve at a sanctuary that is a copy(H) and shadow(I) of what is in heaven. This is why Moses was warned(J) when he was about to build the tabernacle: “See to it that you make everything according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.”[a](K) 6 But in fact the ministry Jesus has received is as superior to theirs as the covenant(L) of which he is mediator(M) is superior to the old one, since the new covenant is established on better promises.
7 For if there had been nothing wrong with that first covenant, no place would have been sought for another.(N) 8 But God found fault with the people and said[b]:
“The days are coming, declares the Lord,
when I will make a new covenant(O)
with the people of Israel
and with the people of Judah.
9 It will not be like the covenant
I made with their ancestors(P)
when I took them by the hand
to lead them out of Egypt,
because they did not remain faithful to my covenant,
and I turned away from them,
declares the Lord.
10 This is the covenant(Q) I will establish with the people of Israel
after that time, declares the Lord.
I will put my laws in their minds
and write them on their hearts.(R)
I will be their God,
and they will be my people.(S)
11 No longer will they teach their neighbor,
or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord,’
because they will all know me,(T)
from the least of them to the greatest.
12 For I will forgive their wickedness
and will remember their sins no more.(U)”[c](V)
13 By calling this covenant “new,”(W) he has made the first one obsolete;(X) and what is obsolete and outdated will soon disappear.
Footnotes
- Hebrews 8:5 Exodus 25:40
- Hebrews 8:8 Some manuscripts may be translated fault and said to the people.
- Hebrews 8:12 Jer. 31:31-34
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