Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

8 The real point of what we are saying is this. We now have a high priest who sits beside God's throne or chief chair in heaven.

² He is priest in the true holy place where God lives. The Lord made that place, man did not.

³ Every high priest is chosen to offer gifts and sacrifices. So this high priest must have something to offer also.

⁴ If he were still on earth, he would not be a priest. There are priests on earth already who offer gifts the way the law says.

⁵ The work they do shows what the work of the priest in heaven is. When Moses made a house for God, here is what God told him to do. He said, `Be sure you make everything like I showed you on the mountain.'

⁶ But Christ has been given a much better work, because he is the man who is between God and men in making an agreement. This is a much better agreement. It was made by better promises.

⁷ If the first agreement had been all right, there would have been no need to make another.