1 The New Priestly Service Now this is the main point of the things we are saying: We have such a High Priest, Ps. 68:18; 110:1; Eph. 1:20; Col. 3:1; Heb. 2:17; 3:1; 10:12 who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,
2 a Minister of Heb. 9:8, 12 the sanctuary and of Heb. 9:11, 24 the true tabernacle which the Lord erected, and not man.
3 For (Rom. 4:25; 5:6, 8; Gal. 2:20; Eph. 5:2); Heb. 5:1; 8:4 every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices. Therefore (Eph. 5:2; Heb. 9:14) it is necessary that this One also have something to offer.
4 For if He were on earth, He would not be a priest, since there are priests who offer the gifts according to the law;
5 who serve Heb. 9:23, 24 the copy and Col. 2:17; Heb. 10:1 shadow of the heavenly things, as Moses was divinely instructed when he was about to make the tabernacle. For He said, Ex. 25:40 “See that you make all things according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.”
6 But now (2 Cor. 3:6–8) He has obtained a more excellent ministry, inasmuch as He is also Mediator of a (Luke 22:20); Heb. 7:22 better covenant, which was established on better promises.
7 A New Covenant For if that Ex. 3:8; 19:5 first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second.
8 Because finding fault with them, He says: Jer. 31:31–34 “Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord , when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah—
9 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they did not continue in My covenant, and I disregarded them, says the Lord .
10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Jer. 31:33; Rom. 11:27; Heb. 10:16 Lord : I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and Zech. 8:8 I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
11 Is. 54:13; John 6:45; (1 John 2:27) None of them shall teach his neighbor, and none his brother, saying, ‘Know the Jer. 31:34 Lord ,’ for all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them.
12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, Rom. 11:27 and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.”
13 (2 Cor. 5:17); Heb. 1:11 In that He says, “A new covenant ,” He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.