Hebrews 8:6-13

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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]

¹³When it says new, it makes the first obsolete. And if something is old and outdated, it’s close to disappearing.

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Footnotes

Hebrews 8:12 Jer 31:31-34

Psalm 85:7-13

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⁷Show us your faithful love, Lord!
Give us your salvation!

⁸Let me hear what the Lord God says,
    because he speaks peace to his people and to his faithful ones.
    Don’t let them return to foolish ways.
⁹God’s salvation is very close to those who honor him
    so that his glory can live in our land.
¹⁰Faithful love and truth have met;
    righteousness and peace have kissed.
¹¹Truth springs up from the ground;
    righteousness gazes down from heaven.
¹²Yes, the Lord gives what is good,
    and our land yields its produce.
¹³Righteousness walks before God,
    making a road for his steps.

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Mark 3:13-19

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Jesus appoints twelve apostles

¹³Jesus went up on a mountain and called those he wanted, and they came to him. ¹⁴He appointed twelve and called them apostles. He appointed them to be with him, to be sent out to preach, ¹⁵and to have authority to throw out demons. ¹⁶He appointed twelve: Peter, a name he gave Simon; ¹⁷James and John, Zebedee’s sons, whom he nicknamed Boanerges, which means “sons of Thunder”; ¹⁸and Andrew; Philip; Bartholomew; Matthew; Thomas; James, Alphaeus’ son; Thaddaeus; Simon the Cananaean;^[a] ¹⁹and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed Jesus.