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Now the point of what we are saying is this: We have a high priest who has sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens.
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He is a servant in the holy place, the true tabernacle that the Lord, not a man, set up.
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For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices. Therefore, it is necessary to have something to offer.
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Now if Christ were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, since there are those who offer the gifts according to the law.
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They serve in a tabernacle that is a copy and shadow of the heavenly things. It is just as Moses was warned by God when he was about to construct the tabernacle: God said, “See that you make everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain.”
The New Covenant
(Jeremiah 31:26–40)
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But now Christ has received a much better ministry. It is just as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which is based on better promises.
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For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no need for a second covenant.
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For when God found fault with the people, he said, “See, 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.
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It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors on the day that I took them by their hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt. For they did not continue in my covenant, and I disregarded them-says the Lord.
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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 into their minds, and I will also write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
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They will not teach each one his neighbor and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord.’ For all will know me, from the least to the greatest of them.
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For I will be merciful to their acts of unrighteousness, and I will not remember their sins any longer.”
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By saying “new,” he has made the first covenant old. And what has become outdated and old is near to disappearing.
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