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18 There is, on the one hand, the abrogation of an earlier commandment because it was weak and ineffectual(A)

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For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do: by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and to deal with sin,[a] he condemned sin in the flesh,(A)

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  1. 8.3 Or and as a sin offering

39 by this Jesus[a] everyone who believes is set free from all those sins[b] from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses.(A)

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  1. 13.39 Gk this
  2. 13.39 Gk all

Another Priest, Like Melchizedek

11 Now if perfection had been attainable through the Levitical priesthood—for the people received the law under this priesthood—what further need would there have been to speak of another priest arising according to the order of Melchizedek rather than one according to the order of Aaron?(A) 12 For when there is a change in the priesthood, there is necessarily a change in the law as well.

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

God[a] 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,(B)
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.(C)
11 And they shall not teach one another
    or say to each other,[b] ‘Know the Lord,’
for they shall all know me,
    from the least of them to the greatest.(D)
12 For I will be merciful toward their iniquities,
    and I will remember their sins[c] no more.”(E)

13 In speaking of a new covenant, he has made the first one obsolete, and what is obsolete and growing old will soon disappear.(F)

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

19 (for the law made nothing perfect); there is, on the other hand, the introduction of a better hope through which we approach God.(A)

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Now, however, that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and beggarly elemental principles?[a] How can you want to be enslaved to them again?(A)

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  1. 4.9 Or spirits

for, while physical training is of some value, godliness is valuable in every way, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come.(A)

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Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by regulations about food,[a] which have not benefited those who observe them.(A)

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  1. 13.9 Gk not by foods

17 My point is this: the law, which came four hundred thirty years later, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to nullify the promise.(A)

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Christ’s Sacrifice Once for All

10 Since the law has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the true form of these realities, it[a] can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered year after year, make perfect those who approach.(A) Otherwise, would they not have ceased being offered, since the worshipers, cleansed once for all, would no longer have any consciousness of sin? But in these sacrifices there is a reminder of sin year after year.(B) For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.(C) Consequently, when Christ[b] came into the world, he said,

“Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired,
    but a body you have prepared for me;(D)
in burnt offerings and sin offerings
    you have taken no pleasure.
Then I said, ‘See, I have come to do your will, O God’
    (in the scroll of the book[c] it is written of me).”(E)

When he said above, “You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings” (these are offered according to the law), then he added, “See, I have come to do your will.” He abolishes the first in order to establish the second.

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  1. 10.1 Other ancient authorities read they
  2. 10.5 Gk he
  3. 10.7 Meaning of Gk uncertain

The Allegory of Hagar and Sarah

21 Tell me, you who desire to be subject to the law, will you not listen to the law?

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The Promise to Abraham

15 Brothers and sisters, I give an example from daily life: once a person’s will[a] has been ratified, no one adds to it or annuls it.(A)

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  1. 3.15 Or covenant

31 Do we then overthrow the law through this faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold the law.

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This is a symbol[a] of the present time, indicating that gifts and sacrifices are offered that cannot perfect the conscience of the worshiper(A) 10 but deal only with food and drink and various baptisms, regulations for the body imposed until the time comes to set things right.(B)

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  1. 9.9 Gk parable