| The Holy Bible: King James Version. 2000. |
The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the |
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The Mediator of a New Covenant |
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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; Ps. 110.1
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a minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.
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For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer.
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For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law:
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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. Ex. 25.40
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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.
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For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.
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¶ For finding fault with them, he saith,
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Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, |
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when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: |
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not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers,
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in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; |
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because they continued not in my covenant, |
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and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. |
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For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel
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after those days, saith the Lord; |
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I will put my laws into their mind, |
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and write them in their hearts: |
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and I will be to them a God, |
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and they shall be to me a people: |
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and they shall not teach every man his neighbor,
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and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: |
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for all shall know me, |
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from the least to the greatest. |
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For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness,
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and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. Jer. 31.31-34 |
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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.
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