Hebrews 8

Hebrews 7 Hebrews 9

Hebrews 8 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

A Better Ministry

8 Now the main point in what has been said is this: we have such a high priest, who has taken His seat at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, ²a minister ^[a]in the sanctuary and ^[b]in the true ^[c]tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man. ³For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices; so it is necessary that this high priest also have something to offer. ⁴Now if He were on earth, He would not be a priest at all, since there are those who offer the gifts according to the Law; ⁵who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, just as Moses ^[d]was warned by God when he was about to erect the ^[e]tabernacle; for, “See,” He says, “that you make all things according to the pattern which was shown you on the mountain.” ⁶But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, by as much as He is also the mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted on better promises.

A New Covenant

⁷For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion sought for a second. ⁸For finding fault with them, He says,

“Behold, days are coming, says the Lord,
^[f]When I will effect a new covenant
With the house of Israel and with the house of Judah;
⁹Not like the covenant which I made with their fathers
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 I did not care for them, says the Lord.
¹⁰“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel
After those days, says the Lord:
^[g]I will put My laws into their minds,
And I will write them on their hearts.
And I will be their God,
And they shall be My people.
¹¹“And they shall not teach everyone his fellow citizen,
And everyone his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’
For all will know Me,
From ^[h]the least to the greatest of them.
¹²“For I will be merciful to their iniquities,
And I will remember their sins no more.”