Hebrews 8:7
For if that first agreement had been as good as possible, there would have been no place for a second.
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- Heb 7:11 : 11 Now if it was possible for things to be made complete through the priests of the house of Levi (for the law was given to the people in connection with them), what need was there for another priest who was of the order of Melchizedek and not of the order of Aaron?
- Heb 7:18 : 18 So the law which went before is put on one side, because it was feeble and without profit.
- Heb 8:6 : 6 But now his position as priest is higher. because through him God has made a better agreement with man, based on the giving of better things.
- Gal 3:21 : 21 Is the law then against the words of God? in no way; because if there had been a law which was able to give life, truly righteousness would have been by the law.
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- Heb 8:8-92 verses84%
8For, protesting against them, he says, See, the days are coming when I will make a new agreement with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah;
9Not like the agreement which I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand, to be their guide out of the land of Egypt; for they did not keep the agreement with me, and I gave them up, says the Lord.
- Heb 8:4-63 verses81%
4If he had been on earth he would not have been a priest at all, because there are other priests who make the offerings ordered by the law;
5Being servants of that which is a copy and an image of the things in heaven, as Moses, when he was about to make the Tent, had special orders from God: for, See, he said, that you make everything like the design which you saw in the mountain.
6But now his position as priest is higher. because through him God has made a better agreement with man, based on the giving of better things.
- Heb 8:12-132 verses79%
12And I will have mercy on their evil-doing, and I will not keep their sins in mind.
13When he says, A new agreement, he has made the first agreement old. But anything which is getting old and past use will not be seen much longer.
- Heb 7:15-228 verses75%
15And this is even more clear if a second priest has come up who is like Melchizedek,
16That is to say, not made by a law based on the flesh, but by the power of a life without end:
17For it has been witnessed of him, You are a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
18So the law which went before is put on one side, because it was feeble and without profit.
19(Because the law made nothing complete), and in its place there is a better hope, through which we come near to God.
20And as this is not without the taking of an oath
21(For those were made priests without an oath, but this one was made a priest with an oath by him who says of him, The Lord gave his oath, which he will not take back, that you are a priest for ever);
22By so much is it a better agreement which we have through Jesus.
- Heb 7:11-133 verses74%
11Now if it was possible for things to be made complete through the priests of the house of Levi (for the law was given to the people in connection with them), what need was there for another priest who was of the order of Melchizedek and not of the order of Aaron?
12Because if the priests are changed, it is necessary to make a change in the law.
13For he of whom these things are said comes of another tribe, of which no man has ever made offerings at the altar.
- Heb 9:15-184 verses73%
15And for this cause it is through him that a new agreement has come into being, so that after the errors under the first agreement had been taken away by his death, the word of God might have effect for those who were marked out for an eternal heritage.
16Because where there is a testament, there has to be the death of the man who made it.
17For a testament has effect after death; for what power has it while the man who made it is living?
18So that even the first agreement was not made without blood.
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1Now the first agreement had its rules of worship, and a holy order.
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2As a servant of the holy things and of the true Tent, which was put up by God, not by man.
- Heb 9:6-94 verses71%
6Now while these things were in existence, the priests went into the first Tent at all times, for prayer and the making of offerings.
7But only the high priest went into the second, once a year, not without making an offering of blood for himself and for the errors of the people:
8The Holy Spirit witnessing by this that the way into the holy place had not at that time been made open, while the first Tent was still in being;
9And this is an image of the present time; when the offerings which are given are not able to make the heart of the worshipper completely clean,
- Heb 10:1-22 verses71%
1For the law, being only a poor copy of the future good things, and not the true image of those things, is never able to make the people who come to the altar every year with the same offerings completely clean.
2For if this had been possible, would there not have been an end of those offerings, because the worshippers would have been made completely clean and would have been no longer conscious of sins?
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28The law makes high priests of men who are feeble; but the word of the oath, which was made after the law, gives that position to a Son, in whom all good is for ever complete.
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2Because if the word which came through the angels was fixed, and in the past every evil act against God's orders was given its full punishment;
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40Because God had kept some better thing for us, so that it was not possible for them to become complete without us.
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11But now Christ has come as the high priest of the good things of the future, through this greater and better Tent, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this world,
- Heb 10:8-92 verses70%
8After saying, You had no desire for offerings, for burned offerings or offerings for sin (which are made by the law) and you had no pleasure in them,
9Then he said, See, I have come to do your pleasure. He took away the old order, so that he might put the new order in its place.
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8For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have said anything about another day.
- Jer 31:31-322 verses70%
31See, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new agreement with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah:
32Not like the agreement which I made with their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand to be their guide out of the land of Egypt; which agreement was broken by them, and I gave them up, says the Lord.
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17For you have knowledge that even long after, when he was desiring the blessing for his heritage, he was turned away, though he made his request frequently and with weeping; because the past might not be changed.
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17So that when it was God's desire to make it specially clear to those who by his word were to have the heritage, that his purpose was fixed, he made it more certain with an oath;
- Heb 4:5-62 verses69%
5And in the same place he says again, They will not come into my rest.
6So that as it is clear that some have to go in, and that the first hearers of the good news were not able to go in because they went against God's orders,
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10For the glory of the first no longer seems to be glory, because of the greater glory of that which comes after.
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17Now this I say: The law, which came four hundred and thirty years after, does not put an end to the agreement made before by God, so as to make the undertaking without effect.
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7For if the operation of the law, giving death, recorded in letters on stone, came with glory, so that the eyes of the children of Israel had to be turned away from the face of Moses because of its glory, a glory which was only for a time:
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4Because it is not possible for the blood of oxen and goats to take away sins.
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8But you are turned out of the way; you have made the law hard for numbers of people; you have made the agreement of Levi of no value, says the Lord of armies.
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18For if I put up again those things which I gave to destruction, I am seen to be a wrongdoer.
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15Brothers, as men would say, even a man's agreement, when it has been made certain, may not be put on one side, or have additions made to it.