Hebrews 8 (NET)

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Hebrews 8:1¹Now the main point of what we are saying is this: We have such a high priest, one who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Heb 1:3 Col 3:1 Rev 3:21 Heb 12:2 Heb 7:26-28 Heb 2:17 1 Chr 29:11 Heb 10:12 Ps 110:1 Mic 5:4

Hebrews 8:3³For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices. So this one too had to have something to offer.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Eph 5:2 Heb 5:1 Heb 9:14 Heb 10:9-12 Heb 7:27 Titus 2:14 John 6:51

Hebrews 8:4⁴Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest, since there are already priests who offer the gifts prescribed by the law.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Heb 7:11-15 Heb 5:1 2 Chr 26:18-19 Num 16:40 Num 17:12-13 Num 18:5 Heb 11:4

Hebrews 8:5⁵The place where they serve is a sketch and shadow of the heavenly sanctuary, just as Moses was warned by God as he was about to complete the tabernacle. For he says, “See that you make everything according to the design shown to you on the mountain.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 25:40 Col 2:17 Heb 10:1 Exod 26:30 1 Chr 28:19 Exod 27:8 1 Chr 28:12 Heb 9:23-24 Heb 9:9 Num 8:4

Hebrews 8:6⁶But now Jesus has obtained a superior ministry, since the covenant that he mediates is also better and is enacted on better promises.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Heb 7:22 Gal 3:16-21 Heb 12:24 2 Pet 1:4 Luke 22:20 2 Cor 3:6-11 Rom 9:4 Titus 1:2 Heb 9:15-20 Heb 8:7-13

Hebrews 8:7⁷For if that first covenant had been faultless, no one would have looked for a second one.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Heb 7:11 Gal 3:21 Heb 7:18 Heb 8:6

Hebrews 8:8⁸But showing its fault, God says to them, “Look, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will complete a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 31:31-34 Heb 10:16-17 Heb 12:24 Jer 32:40 Heb 9:15 Ezek 37:26 1 Cor 11:25 2 Cor 3:6 Ezek 16:60-61 Isa 55:3

Hebrews 8:9⁹“It will not be like the covenant that I made with their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they did not continue in my covenant and I had no regard for them, says the Lord.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 31:32 Gal 4:24 Mark 8:23 2 Kgs 17:15-18 Acts 13:11 Acts 9:8 Amos 5:22 Deut 29:1 Deut 29:12 Deut 29:25

Hebrews 8:10¹⁰“For this is the covenant that I will establish with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord. I will put my laws in their minds and I will inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God and they will be my people.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 36:26-28 Jer 31:33 2 Cor 3:3 Ezek 11:19-20 Heb 10:16-17 Deut 30:6 Jer 24:7 1 Pet 2:9 Rom 9:25-26 Rom 11:27

Hebrews 8:11¹¹“And there will be no need at all for each one to teach his countryman or each one to teach his brother saying, ‘Know the Lord, ’ since they will all know me, from the least to the greatest.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 31:34 Isa 54:13 John 6:45 1 John 2:27 Jer 24:7 1 John 5:20 1 Chr 28:9 Acts 8:10 Hab 2:14 Isa 2:3

Hebrews 8:13¹³When he speaks of a new covenant, he makes the first obsolete. Now what is growing obsolete and aging is about to disappear.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Cor 5:17 Heb 7:18-19 Heb 7:11-12 Heb 9:15 Heb 9:9-10 1 Cor 13:8 Isa 51:6

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