12 remember (A)that you were at that time separated from Christ, (B)alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to (C)the covenants of promise, (D)having no hope and without God in the world.

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19 He declares his word to Jacob,
    his (A)statutes and rules[a] to Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 147:19 Or and just decrees

that I may make my covenant between me and you, and (A)may multiply you greatly.”

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But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel,

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22 Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord, (A)Israel is my (B)firstborn son,

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The Earthly Holy Place

Now even the first covenant had regulations for worship and (A)an earthly place of holiness.

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39 For (A)the promise is for you and (B)for your children and for all (C)who are far off, everyone (D)whom the Lord our God calls to himself.”

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11 so that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud, for the glory of the Lord filled the house of the Lord.

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“For (A)you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be (B)a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.

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The Certainty of God's Promise

13 For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he had no one greater by whom to swear, (A)he swore by himself, 14 saying, (B)“Surely I will bless you and multiply you.” 15 And thus Abraham,[a] (C)having patiently waited, obtained the promise. 16 For people swear by something greater than themselves, and in all their disputes (D)an oath is final for confirmation. 17 So when God desired to show more convincingly to (E)the heirs of the promise (F)the unchangeable character of his purpose, (G)he guaranteed it with an oath,

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 6:15 Greek he

15 For (A)you did not receive (B)the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of (C)adoption as sons, by whom we cry, (D)“Abba! Father!”

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25 (A)You are the sons of the prophets and of (B)the covenant that God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, (C)‘And in your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.’ 26 (D)God, (E)having raised up his servant, sent him to you first, (F)to bless you (G)by turning every one of you from your wickedness.”

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17 For (A)the law was given through Moses; (B)grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

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69 and (A)has raised up (B)a horn of salvation for us
    (C)in the house of his servant David,
70 (D)as (E)he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets from of old,
71 (F)that we should be saved from our enemies
    and from the hand of all who hate us;
72 (G)to show the mercy promised to our fathers
    and (H)to remember his holy (I)covenant,
73 (J)the oath that he swore to our father Abraham, to grant us
74     that we, being delivered from the hand of our enemies,
might serve him (K)without fear,
75     (L)in holiness and righteousness before him (M)all our days.

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11 (A)I gave them my statutes and made known to them my rules, (B)by which, if a person does them, he shall live. 12 Moreover, I gave them (C)my Sabbaths, as a sign between me and them, (D)that they might know that I am the Lord who sanctifies them.

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33 (A)For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: (B)I will put my law within them, and I will write it (C)on their hearts. (D)And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

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You have said, “I have made (A)a covenant with my (B)chosen one;
    I have (C)sworn to David my servant:

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Clean and Unclean Food

14 “You are (A)the sons of the Lord your God. (B)You shall not cut yourselves or make any (C)baldness on your foreheads for the dead.

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And I will (A)establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, (B)to be God to you and to your offspring after you.

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10 but deal only with (A)food and drink and (B)various washings, regulations for the body imposed until the time of reformation.

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Behind (A)the second curtain was a second section[a] called the Most Holy Place,

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 9:3 Greek tent; also verses 6, 8

But as it is, Christ[a] has obtained a ministry that is (A)as much more excellent than the old as (B)the covenant (C)he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises. (D)For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion to look for a second.

For he finds fault with them when he says:[b]

(E)“Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord,
    when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel
    and with the house of Judah,
not like the covenant that I made with their fathers
    on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt.
For they did not continue in my covenant,
    and so I showed no concern for them, declares the Lord.
10 (F)For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel
    after those days, declares the Lord:
I will put my laws into their minds,
    and (G)write them on their hearts,
and I will be their God,
    and they shall be my people.

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 8:6 Greek he
  2. Hebrews 8:8 Some manuscripts For finding fault with it he says to them

Much in every way. To begin with, (A)the Jews were entrusted with (B)the oracles of God.

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32 And we bring you the good news (A)that what God promised to the fathers, 33 (B)this he has fulfilled to us their children by raising Jesus, as also it is written in the second Psalm,

(C)“‘You are my Son,
    today I have begotten you.’

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