Christ offered himself as a sacrifice for sin—God promised to make a new covenant with Israel.

 NOW of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an ^ahigh priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;

 A minister of the sanctuary, and of the ^atrue^{• b}tabernacle^•, which the Lord pitched, and not man.

 For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to ^aoffer^•.

 ^aFor^• if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are ^bpriests that offer gifts according to the law:

 Who serve unto the example and ^ashadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the ^btabernacle^•: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the ^cpattern^• shewed to thee in the mount.

 But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the ^amediator of a better ^bcovenant^•, which was established upon better ^cpromises.

 For if that first covenant had been ^afaultless^•, then should no place have been sought for the second.

 For 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 ^aJudah:

 Not according to the ^acovenant 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.

 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my ^alaws into their ^bmind, and write them in their ^chearts^•: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.

 For I will be merciful to their ^aunrighteousness^•, and their sins and their iniquities will I ^bremember no more.

 In that he saith, A ^anew^• covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth ^bold^• is ready to ^cvanish^• away.