1Now 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;⇆ compare2A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.⇆ compare3For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer.⇆ compare4For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law:⇆ compare5Who 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.⇆ compare6But 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.⇆ compare7For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.⇆ compare8For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:⇆ compare9Not 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 continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.⇆ compare10For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:⇆ compare11And they shall not teach every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.⇆ compare12For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.⇆ compare13In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.⇆ compare