Hebrews 8 — Berean Standard Bible

¹ [The] point of what we are saying [is this]: We do have such a high priest, who sat down at [the] right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven, ² [and who] ministers in the sanctuary and true tabernacle set up by the Lord, not by man. ³ And since every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices, [it was] necessary [for] this One also to have something to offer. ⁴ Now if He were on earth, He would not be a priest, since there are already [priests] who offer gifts according to [the] law. ⁵ [The place where] they serve [is] a copy and shadow of what is in heaven. This is why Moses was warned when he was about to build the tabernacle: “See to it that you make everything according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.” ⁶ Now, however, [Jesus] has received a much more excellent ministry, just as the covenant He mediates is better [and] is founded on better promises. ⁷ For if that first [ covenant ] had been without fault, no place would have been sought for a second. ⁸ [But] [God] found fault with [the people] [and] said: “Behold, [the] days are coming, declares [the] Lord, [when] I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. ⁹ [It will] not be like the covenant I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of [the] land of Egypt, because they did not abide by My covenant, and I disregarded them, declares [the] Lord. ¹⁰ For this [is] the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares [the] Lord. I will put My laws in their minds and inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people. ¹¹ No longer {will} each one teach his neighbor [or] his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ because they will all know Me, from [the] least of them to [the] greatest. ¹² For I will forgive their iniquities and will remember their sins no more.” ¹³ By speaking of a new [covenant], He has made the first one {obsolete}; and what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear.