Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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Jesus Our High Priest
1 The whole point of what we are
saying is that we have such a
High Priest, who sits at the right of
the throne of the Divine Majesty in
heaven. note
2 He serves as high priest in
the Most Holy Place, that is, in the
real tent which was put up by the
Lord, not by man.
3 Every high priest is appointed to
present offerings and animal sacrifices
to God, and so our High Priest
must also have something to offer.
4 If he were on earth, he would not
be a priest at all, since there are
priests who offer the gifts required
by the Jewish Law.
5 The work they
do as priests is really only a copy
and a shadow of what is in heaven.
It is the same as it was with Moses.
When he was about to build the
Covenant Tent, God told him, “Be
sure to make everything according
to the pattern you were shown on
the mountain.” note
6 But now, Jesus has
been given priestly work which is
superior to theirs, just as the covenant
which he arranged between
God and his people is a better one,
because it is based on promises of
better things.
7 If there had been nothing wrong
with the first covenant, there would
have been no need for a second one.
8 But God finds fault with his people
when he says,
“The days are coming, says the Lord,
when I will draw up a new covenant with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah.
9
It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors
on the day I took them by the hand and led them out of Egypt.
They were not faithful to the covenant I made with them,
and so I paid no attention to them.
10
Now, this is the covenant that I will make with the people of Israel
in the days to come, says the Lord:
I will put my laws in their minds
and write them on their hearts.
I will be their God,
and they will be my people.
11
None of them will have to teach his fellow citizen
or tell his fellow countryman,
‘Know the Lord.’
For they will all know me,
from the least to the greatest.
12
I will forgive their sins
and will no longer remember their wrongs.” note
13 By speaking of a new covenant,
God has made the first one old; and
anything that becomes old and worn
out will soon disappear.
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Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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