Hebrews 8:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • Heb 7:22 : 22 By so much is it a better agreement which we have through Jesus.
  • Heb 12:24 : 24 And to Jesus by whom the new agreement has been made between God and man, and to the sign of the blood which says better things than Abel's blood.
  • 2 Cor 3:6-9 : 6 Who has made us able to be servants of a new agreement; not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter gives death, but the Spirit gives life. 7 For 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: 8 Will not the operation of the Spirit have a much greater glory? 9 For if the operation of the law, producing punishment, had its glory, how much greater will be the operation of the Spirit causing righteousness? 10 For the glory of the first no longer seems to be glory, because of the greater glory of that which comes after. 11 For if the order which was for a time had its glory, much more will the eternal order have its glory.
  • Gal 3:16-21 : 16 Now to Abraham were the undertakings given, and to his seed. He says not, And to seeds, as of a great number; but as of one, he says, And to your seed, which is Christ. 17 Now 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. 18 Because if the heritage is by the law, it is no longer dependent on the word of God; but God gave it to Abraham by his word. 19 What then is the law? It was an addition made because of sin, till the coming of the seed to whom the undertaking had been given; and it was ordered through angels by the hand of a go-between. 20 Now a go-between is not a go-between of one; but God is one. 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.
  • Luke 22:20 : 20 And in the same way, after the meal, he took the cup, saying, This cup is the new testament, made with my blood which is given for you.
  • Rom 9:4 : 4 Who are Israelites: who have the place of sons, and the glory, and the agreements with God, and the giving of the law, and the worship, and the hope offered by God:
  • 2 Pet 1:4 : 4 And through this he has given us the hope of great rewards highly to be valued; so that by them we might have our part in God's being, and be made free from the destruction which is in the world through the desires of the flesh.
  • Heb 8:7-9 : 7 For if that first agreement had been as good as possible, there would have been no place for a second. 8 For, 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; 9 Not 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. 10 For 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: 11 And there will be no need for every man to be teaching his brother, or his neighbour, saying, This is the knowledge of the Lord: for they will all have knowledge of me, great and small. 12 And I will have mercy on their evil-doing, and I will not keep their sins in mind. 13 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.
  • Heb 9:15-20 : 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. 16 Because where there is a testament, there has to be the death of the man who made it. 17 For a testament has effect after death; for what power has it while the man who made it is living? 18 So that even the first agreement was not made without blood. 19 For when Moses had given all the rules of the law to the people, he took the blood of goats and young oxen, with water and red wool and hyssop, and put it on the book itself and on all the people, 20 Saying, This blood is the sign of the agreement which God has made with you.
  • Titus 1:2 : 2 In the hope of eternal life, which was made certain before eternal time, by the word of God who is ever true;

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  • Heb 8:7-8
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    7 For if that first agreement had been as good as possible, there would have been no place for a second.

    8 For, 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;

  • Heb 7:15-22
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    15 And this is even more clear if a second priest has come up who is like Melchizedek,

    16 That is to say, not made by a law based on the flesh, but by the power of a life without end:

    17 For it has been witnessed of him, You are a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.

    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.

    20 And 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);

    22 By so much is it a better agreement which we have through Jesus.

  • Heb 9:15
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    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.

  • Heb 8:1-5
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    1 Now of the things we are saying this is the chief point: We have such a high priest, who has taken his place at the right hand of God's high seat of glory in heaven,

    2 As a servant of the holy things and of the true Tent, which was put up by God, not by man.

    3 Now every high priest is given authority to take to God the things which are given and to make offerings; so that it is necessary for this man, like them, to have something for an offering.

    4 If 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;

    5 Being 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.

  • Heb 9:11-12
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    11 But 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,

    12 And has gone once and for ever into the holy place, having got eternal salvation, not through the blood of goats and young oxen, but through his blood.

  • Heb 12:24
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    24 And to Jesus by whom the new agreement has been made between God and man, and to the sign of the blood which says better things than Abel's blood.

  • Heb 8:13
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    13 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.

  • Heb 6:20
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    20 Where Jesus has gone before us, as a high priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.

  • Heb 7:28
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    28 The 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 1:4
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    4 Having become by so much better than the angels, as the name which is his heritage is more noble than theirs.

  • Heb 6:17
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    17 So 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 9:6
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    6 Now while these things were in existence, the priests went into the first Tent at all times, for prayer and the making of offerings.

  • Heb 7:11-12
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    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 9:1
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    1 Now the first agreement had its rules of worship, and a holy order.

  • Heb 9:8-9
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    8 The 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;

    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,

  • Heb 9:23-24
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    23 For this cause it was necessary to make the copies of the things in heaven clean with these offerings; but the things themselves are made clean with better offerings than these.

    24 For Christ did not go into a holy place which had been made by men's hands as the copy of the true one; but he went into heaven itself, and now takes his place before the face of God for us.

  • Heb 10:1
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    1 For 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.

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

  • Heb 7:7
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    7 But there is no doubt that the less gets his blessing from the greater.

  • Heb 5:6
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    6 As he says in another place, You are a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.

  • Heb 3:1-3
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    1 For this reason, holy brothers, marked out to have a part in heaven, give thought to Jesus the representative and high priest of our faith;

    2 Who kept faith with God who gave him his place, even as Moses did in all his house.

    3 And it was right for this man to have more honour than Moses, even as the builder of a house has more honour than the house.

  • Heb 11:40
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    40 Because God had kept some better thing for us, so that it was not possible for them to become complete without us.

  • Heb 7:25-26
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    25 So that he is fully able to be the saviour of all who come to God through him, because he is ever living to make prayer to God for them.

    26 It was right for us to have such a high priest, one who is holy and without evil, doing no wrong, having no part with sinners, and made higher than the heavens:

  • Heb 10:9
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    9 Then 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.

  • Heb 13:20
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    20 Now may the God of peace, who made that great keeper of his flock, even our Lord Jesus, come back from the dead through the blood of the eternal agreement,

  • Heb 10:21
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    21 And having a great priest over the house of God,

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

  • 2 Cor 3:8
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    8 Will not the operation of the Spirit have a much greater glory?

  • Heb 9:18
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    18 So that even the first agreement was not made without blood.

  • Heb 4:14
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    14 Having then a great high priest, who has made his way through the heavens, even Jesus the Son of God, let us be strong in our faith.

  • Heb 5:10
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    10 Being named by God a high priest of the order of Melchizedek.