Hebrews - Chapter 8

Passage

Now of the things which we have spoken, this is the sum: We have such an high priest who is set on the right hand of the throne of majesty in the heavens, A minister of the holies and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord has pitched, and not man. For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices: therefore it is necessary that he also should have some thing to offer. If then he were on earth, he would not be a priest: seeing that there would be others to offer gifts according to the law. Who serve to the example and shadow of heavenly things. As it was answered to Moses, when he was to finish the tabernacle: See (says he) that you make all things according to the pattern which was shown you on the mount. But now he has obtained a better ministry, by how much also he is a mediator of a better testament which is established on better promises. For if that former had been faultless, there should not indeed a place have been sought for a second. For, finding fault with them, he says: Behold the days shall come, says the Lord: and I will perfect, to the house of Israel and to the house of Juda, a new testament: Not according to the testament which I made to their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt: because they continued not in my testament: and I regarded them not, says the Lord. For this is the testament which I will make to the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will give my laws into their mind: and in their heart will I write them. And I will be their God: and they shall be my people. And they shall not teach every man his neighbor and every man his brother, saying: Know the Lord. For all shall know me, from the least to the greatest of them. Because I will be merciful to their iniquities: and their sins I will remember no more. Now in saying a new, he has made the former old. And that which decays and grows old is near its end.