1 Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such a high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;
2 a minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.
3 For 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 if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law:
5 who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern showed to thee in the mount.
6 But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.
8 For finding fault with them, he saith,Behold, 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 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 continued not in my covenant,and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.
10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israelafter those days, saith the Lord;I will put my laws into their mind,and write them in their hearts:and I will be to them a God,and they shall be to me a people:
11 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.
12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness,and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
13 In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.