Hebrews 8:13

Bible in Basic English (1941)

When 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.

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  • 2 Cor 5:17 : 17 So if any man is in Christ, he is in a new world: the old things have come to an end; they have truly become new.
  • Heb 7:11-12 : 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? 12 Because if the priests are changed, it is necessary to make a change in the law.
  • Heb 7:18-19 : 18 So 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.
  • Heb 9:15 : 15 And 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.
  • Isa 51:6 : 6 Let your eyes be lifted up to the heavens, and turned to the earth which is under them: for the heavens will go in flight like smoke, and the earth will become old like a coat, and its people will come to destruction like insects: but my salvation will be for ever, and my righteousness will not come to an end.
  • Matt 24:35 : 35 Heaven and earth will come to an end, but my words will not come to an end.
  • 1 Cor 13:8 : 8 Though the prophet's word may come to an end, tongues come to nothing, and knowledge have no more value, love has no end.
  • Heb 9:9-9 : 9 And 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, 10 Because they are only rules of the flesh, of meats and drinks and washings, which have their place till the time comes when things will be put right.

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  • Heb 8:6-10
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    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.

    7For if that first agreement had been as good as possible, there would have been no place for a second.

    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.

    10For this is the agreement which I will make with the people of Israel after those days: I will put my laws into their minds, writing them in their hearts: and I will be their God, and they will be my people:

  • Heb 8:12
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    12And I will have mercy on their evil-doing, and I will not keep their sins in mind.

  • Jer 31:31-32
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    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.

  • Heb 9:15-18
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    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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    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.

  • Heb 10:9
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    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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    17So if any man is in Christ, he is in a new world: the old things have come to an end; they have truly become new.

  • Heb 10:15-18
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    15And the Holy Spirit is a witness for us: for after he had said,

    16This is the agreement which I will make with them after those days, says the Lord; I will put my laws in their hearts, writing them in their minds; he said,

    17And I will keep no more memory of their sins and of their evil-doings.

    18Now where there is forgiveness of these, there is no more offering for sin.

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    10But when that which is complete is come, then that which is in part will be no longer necessary.

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    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 9:11
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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,

  • 2 Cor 3:13-14
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    13And are not like Moses, who put a veil on his face, so that the children of Israel might not see clearly to the end of the present order of things:

    14But their minds were made hard: for to this very day at the reading of the old agreement the same veil is still unlifted; though it is taken away in Christ.

  • Heb 1:11-12
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    11They will come to their end; but you are for ever; they will become old as a robe;

    12They will be rolled up like a cloth, even like a robe, and they will be changed: but you are the same and your years will have no end.

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    12Because if the priests are changed, it is necessary to make a change in the law.

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    18Give no thought to the things which are past; let the early times go out of your minds.

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    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?

    3But year by year there is a memory of sins in those offerings.

  • Heb 13:8
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    8Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and for ever.

  • Luke 5:36-39
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    36And he said to them, in a story, No man takes a bit of cloth from a new coat and puts it on to an old coat, for so the new coat would be damaged and the bit from the new would not go well with the old.

    37And no man puts new wine into old wine-skins, for fear that the skins will be burst by the new wine, and the wine be let out, and the skins come to destruction.

    38But new wine has to be put into new wine-skins.

    39And no man, having had old wine, has any desire for new, for he says, The old is better.

  • Rom 11:27
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    27And this is my agreement with them, when I will take away their sins.

  • 2 Cor 3:11
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    11For if the order which was for a time had its glory, much more will the eternal order have its glory.

  • Isa 65:17
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    17For see, I am making a new heaven and a new earth: and the past things will be gone completely out of mind.

  • Heb 9:20
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    20Saying, This blood is the sign of the agreement which God has made with you.

  • Gal 3:17
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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.

  • Heb 7:28
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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.

  • Heb 12:27
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    27And the words, Still one more, make it clear that there will be a taking away of those things which are shaking, as of things which are made, so that there may be only those things of which no shaking is possible.

  • Heb 9:1
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    1Now the first agreement had its rules of worship, and a holy order.

  • Mark 2:21
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    21No man puts a bit of new cloth on an old coat: or the new, by pulling away from the old, makes a worse hole.

  • Eccl 1:10
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    10Is there anything of which men say, See, this is new? It has been in the old time which was before us.

  • Heb 6:17
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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 7:22
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    22By so much is it a better agreement which we have through Jesus.