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41 lines
2.2 KiB
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## Jesus, High Priest of a New Covenant
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Now the main point in what is being said _is this_: we have such a high priest, who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,
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a minister in the holy places and in the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man.
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For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices; so it is necessary that this _high priest_ also have something to offer.
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Now 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;
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who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, just as Moses was warned _by God_ when he was about to erect the tabernacle; for, "See," He says, "that you make all things according to the pattern which was shown you on the mountain."
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But 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.
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For if that first _covenant_ had been faultless, there would have been no occasion sought for a second.
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For finding fault with them, He says, "Behold, days are coming, says the LORD, When I will complete a new covenant With the house of Israel and with the house of Judah;
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Not like the covenant which I made with their fathers In 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.
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For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel After those days, says the LORD: I will put My laws into their minds, And upon their hearts I will write them. And I will be their God, And they shall be My people.
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And they shall not teach everyone his fellow citizen, And everyone his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' For all will know Me, From the least to the greatest of them.
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For I will be merciful to their iniquities, And I will remember their sins no more."
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When He said, "A new _covenant_," He has made the first obsolete. But whatever is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to disappear.
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