Hebrews 8:7

By so much, Jesus has become the collateral of a better covenant.

Let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them.

For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;

I don’t reject the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!”

wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us. He has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross.

Now if perfection was through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people have received the law), what further need was there for another priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be called after the order of Aaron?

Now a mediator is not between one, but God is one.

to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.

Yahweh has sworn, and will not change his mind: “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”

and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.

but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn’t arrive at the law of righteousness.

But if while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? Certainly not!

But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?

For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

As he says also in another place, “You are a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek.”

For there is an annulling of a foregoing commandment because of its weakness and uselessness

(for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.

a servant of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man.

God having provided some better thing concerning us, so that apart from us they should not be made perfect.

You shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two door posts with the blood that is in the basin. None of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.

Therefore you shall keep my requirements, that you do not practice any of these abominable customs which were practiced before you, and that you do not defile yourselves with them. I am Yahweh your God.’ ”

“ ‘They shall therefore follow my commandment, lest they bear sin for it and die in it, if they profane it. I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.

They shall leave none of it until the morning, nor break a bone of it. According to all the statute of the Passover they shall keep it.

and strip Aaron of his garments, and put them on Eleazar his son. Aaron shall be gathered, and shall die there.”

It shall be to him, and to his offspring after him, the covenant of an everlasting priesthood, because he was jealous for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel.’ ”

This was their ordering in their service, to come into Yahweh’s house according to the ordinance given to them by Aaron their father, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, had commanded him.

Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?

Yahweh’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.

The earth also is polluted under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant.

“I, Yahweh, have called you in righteousness. I will hold your hand. I will keep you, and make you a covenant for the people, as a light for the nations,

It pleased Yahweh, for his righteousness’ sake, to magnify the law and make it honorable.

Yahweh says, “I have answered you in an acceptable time. I have helped you in a day of salvation. I will preserve you and give you for a covenant of the people, to raise up the land, to make them inherit the desolate heritage,

If they are ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the form of the house, and its fashion, and its exits, and its entrances, and all its forms, and all its ordinances, and all its forms, and all its laws; and write it in their sight; that they may keep the whole form of it, and all its ordinances, and do them.

They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

Likewise, he took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.

He who comes from above is above all. He who is from the earth belongs to the earth and speaks of the earth. He who comes from heaven is above all.

Be it known to you therefore, brothers, that through this man is proclaimed to you remission of sins,

May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, “that you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment.”

May it never be! For then how will God judge the world?

Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.

Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, was producing death in me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceedingly sinful.

who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;

Don’t you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!

who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.

Brothers, speaking of human terms, though it is only a man’s covenant, yet when it has been confirmed, no one makes it void or adds to it.

Now I say this: A covenant confirmed beforehand by God in Christ, the law, which came four hundred thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect.

Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most certainly righteousness would have been of the law.

So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world.

Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don’t you listen to the law?

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

But we know that the law is good, if a person uses it lawfully,

For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.

named by God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek.

Therefore leaving the teaching of the first principles of Christ, let’s press on to perfection—not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God,

where as a forerunner Jesus entered for us, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.

For he of whom these things are said belongs to another tribe, from which no one has officiated at the altar.

This is yet more abundantly evident, if after the likeness of Melchizedek there arises another priest,

(for they indeed have been made priests without an oath), but he with an oath by him that says of him, “The Lord swore and will not change his mind, ‘You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek.’ ”

For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which on better promises has been given as law.

In that he says, “A new covenant”, he has made the first old. But that which is becoming old and grows aged is near to vanishing away.

Now indeed even the first covenant had ordinances of divine service and an earthly sanctuary.

This is a symbol of the present age, where gifts and sacrifices are offered that are incapable, concerning the conscience, of making the worshiper perfect,

being only (with meats and drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.

Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

Don’t be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.

by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.

in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;

Aren’t they all serving spirits, sent out to do service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?

By faith, Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared a ship for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.