Self-interpreting Bible
Hebrews 8
1Christ, our great high priest in the heavens, hath a more excellent ministry than the priests on earth: 6as he is also the mediator of a better covenant than that which was given to Moses.
1 NOW of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: aWe have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;
2 bA minister 1of the sanctuary, and of cthe true *tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.
3 dFor every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer.
4 For eif he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that 2there are priests that offer gifts according to the law:
- e: He. 7:11 , He. 12:25 , He. 1:3 , Leviticus 1 - 16 , 1 Chronicles 24
- 2: Or, they are priests.
5 Who serve funto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the *tabernacle: gfor, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.
6 hBut now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is ithe mediator of a better 3covenant, which was established upon better promises.
- h: 2Co. 3:6 - 11 , Ga. 3:10 - 29 , He. 1:4 , He. 7:16 , He. 7:22 , He. 9:15
- i: He. 12:24
- 3: Or, testament.
7 jFor if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.
- j: He. 7:11 - 18 , Ro. 8:3 , Ga. 3:21
8 For finding fault with them, he saith, kBehold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
9 lNot according to the covenant mthat I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; nbecause they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.
10 For othis is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will p4put my laws into their mind, and write them 5in their hearts: and qI will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
- o: He. 10:16
- p: De. 30:6 , Je. 31:33 , Je. 32:40 , Eze. 11:19 , Eze. 11:20 , Eze. 36:26 , Eze. 36:27 , 2Co. 3:3 , 2Co. 5:17 , Ps. 40:8 , Ja. 1:18 , Ja. 1:21 , 1Pe. 1:23
- 4: Gr. give.
- 5: Or, upon.
- q: Ex. 19:5 , Ex. 19:6 , Ps. 50:7 , Ps. 81:8 , Ps. 81:10 , Je. 24:7 , Je. 30:22 , Je. 32:38 , Je. 32:40 , Eze. 11:20 , Eze. 37:27 , Eze. 36:28 , Ho. 1:10 , Ho. 2:23 , Zec. 8:8 , Zec. 13:9
11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, rKnow the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.
- r: Je. 31:24 , Is. 54:13 , Eze. 28:26 , Eze. 34:30 , Eze. 39:28 , Jn. 6:45 , 1Co. 2:10 , 1Jn. 2:20 , 1Jn. 2:27 , 1Jn. 5:20 , 1Jn. 2:13 , 1Jn. 2:14 , 2:28 , Jn. 7:39
12 sFor I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.