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Text -- Hebrews 8:1-10 (NET)
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The High Priest of a Better Covenant
8:1 Now the main point of what we are saying is this: We have such a high priest , one who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven ,
8:2 a minister in the sanctuary and the true tabernacle that the Lord , not man , set up .
8:3 For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices . So this one too had to have something to offer .
8:4 Now if he were on earth , he would not be a priest , since there are already priests who offer the gifts prescribed by the law .
8:5 The place where they serve is a sketch and shadow of the heavenly sanctuary , just as Moses was warned by God as he was about to complete the tabernacle . For he says , “See that you make everything according to the design shown to you on the mountain .”
8:6 But now Jesus has obtained a superior ministry , since the covenant that he mediates is also better and is enacted on better promises .
8:7 For if that first covenant had been faultless , no one would have looked for a second one .
8:8 But showing its fault , God says to them , “Look , the days are coming , says the Lord , when I will complete a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah .
8:9 “It will not be like the covenant that I made with their fathers , on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt , because they did not continue in my covenant and I had no regard for them , says the Lord .
8:10 “For this is the covenant that I will establish with the house of Israel after those days , says the Lord . I will put my laws in their minds and I will inscribe them on their hearts . And I will be their God and they will be my people .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Covenant |
Law |
MOSES |
HEBREWS, EPISTLE TO THE |
Gospel |
Tabernacle |
Offerings |
Quotations and Allusions |
MEDIATION; MEDIATOR |
Jesus, The Christ |
Prophecy |
QUOTATIONS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT |
SACRIFICE, IN THE NEW TESTAMENT, 1 |
ASCENSION |
Pattern |
TABERNACLE, A |
FAULT |
Church |
Chief Priests |
MINISTER |
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NET Notes: Heb 8:6 This linkage of the change in priesthood with a change in the law or the covenant goes back to Heb 7:12, 22 and is picked up again in Heb 9:6-15 and 1...
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NET Notes: Heb 8:8 ‡ Several witnesses (א* A D* I K P Ψ 33 81 326 365 1505 2464 al latt co Cyr) have αὐτούς (autous) here...
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