“but now He has obtained a more excellent service, how much He is also mediator of a better covenant, which has been sanctioned on better promises,”— Hebrews 8:6 (LSV)
3for every chief priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices, from where [it is] necessary for this One to also have something that He may offer;
4for if, indeed, He were on earth, He would not be a priest (there being the priests who are offering the gifts according to the Law,
5who to an example and shadow serve of the heavenly things, as Moses has been divinely warned, being about to construct the Dwelling Place, for, “See,” He says, “[that] you will make all things according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain”),
6but now He has obtained a more excellent service, how much He is also mediator of a better covenant, which has been sanctioned on better promises,
7for if that first were faultless, a place would not have been sought for a second.
8For finding fault, He says to them, “Behold, days come, says the LORD, and I will complete with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah, a new covenant,
9not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers, in the day of My taking [them] by their hand, to bring them out of the land of Egypt—because they did not remain in My covenant, and I did not regard them, says the LORD—