I
will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts;
And I will be their God, and they shall be my people!
Hebrews
8
"Now
this is the main point of what we are saying: We have a High
Priest, who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the
Majesty in the heavens, a Minister of the sanctuary and of
the true tabernacle which the Lord erected, and not man.
"For
every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices.
Therefore it is necessary that this One also have something
to offer. For if He were on earth, He would not be a priest,
since there are priests who offer the gifts according to the
law; who serve the copy and shadow of the heavenly things,
as Moses was divinely instructed when he was about to make
the tabernacle. For He said, 'See that you make all things
according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.' But now
He (Jesus) has obtained a more excellent ministry, inasmuch
as He is also Mediator of a better covenant which was established
on better promises.
"For
if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would
have been sought for a second. Because finding fault with
them, He says: '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, 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. 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 in their mind and write them on their hearts; and
I will be their God, and they shall be My people. None of
them shall teach his neighbor, and none his brother, saying,
"Know the Lord," for all shall know Me, from the
least of them to the greatest of them. For I will be merciful
to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless
deeds I will remember no more.'
"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."
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