⁸ Because finding fault with them, He says: ^(A)“Behold, the days are coming, says 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 did not continue in My covenant, and I disregarded them, says the Lord. ¹⁰ For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the ^(B)Lord: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and ^(C)I will be their God, and they shall be My people. ^11 (D)None of them shall teach his neighbor, and none his brother, saying, ‘Know the ^(E)Lord,’ for all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them. ¹² For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, ^(F)and their sins ^[a]and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.”

^13 (G)In that He says, “A new covenant,” He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.

Christ’s Death Fulfills God’s Will^(A)

⁵ Therefore, when He came into the world, He said:

⁸ Previously saying, “Sacrifice and offering, burnt offerings, and offerings for sin You did not desire, nor had pleasure in them” (which are offered according to the law), ⁹ then He said, “Behold, I have come to do Your will, ^[a]O God.” He takes away the first that He may establish the second. ^10 (C)By that will we have been ^[b]sanctified ^(D)through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

Christ’s Death Perfects the Sanctified

¹¹ And every priest stands ^(E)ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. ^12 (F)But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down ^(G)at the right hand of God, ¹³ from that time waiting ^(H)till His enemies are made His footstool. ¹⁴ For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being ^[c]sanctified.

¹⁵ But the Holy Spirit also witnesses to us; for after He had said before,

^16 (I)“This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them,” ¹⁷ then He adds, ^(J)“Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.”