Hebrews 8:6

Coverdale Bible (1535)

But now hath he optayned a more excellent office, in as moch as he is the mediatour of a better Testament, which was made for better promyses.

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  • Heb 7:22 : 22 Thus is Iesus become a stablissher of so moch a better Testamete.
  • Heb 12:24 : 24 and to Iesus the mediatoure of the new Testament, and to the sprenklynge off bloude, that speaketh better then the bloude of Abel.
  • 2 Cor 3:6-9 : 6 which hath made vs able, to be mynisters of the new Testament: not of the letter, but of the sprete. For the letter kylleth, but the sprete geueth life. 7 But yf the mynistracion yt kylleth thorow the letter, and was figured in stones, was glorious, so that the childre of Israel mighte not beholde the face of Moses, for ye clearnesse of his countenauce, (which glory neuertheles is done awaye) 8 how shal not ye mynistracion of ye sprete be moch more glorious? 9 For yf the office that preacheth damnacion be glorious, moch more doth the office that preacheth righteousnes exceade in glory. 10 For ye other parte that was glorified is nothinge glorified in respecte of this exceadinge glory. 11 For yf that which is done awaye, be glorious, moch more shal yt which remayneth, be glorious.
  • Gal 3:16-21 : 16 To Abraham and his sede were the promyses made. He sayeth not: In the sedes, as in many, but in thy sede, as in one, which is Christ. 17 This Testament (I saye) which afore was confirmed to Christ warde, is not disanulled (that the promes shulde be made of none affecte) by the lawe which was geuen beyonde foure hundreth & thirtie yeares therafter. 18 For yf the enheritaunce be gotten by the lawe, then is it not geuen by promes. But God gaue it frely vnto Abraham by promes. 19 Wherfore the serueth the lawe? It was added because of trangression, tyll the sede came, to the which the promes was made. And it was geuen of angels, by the hande of the mediatoure. 20 A mediatour is not a mediatour of one onely, but God is one. 21 Is the lawe then agaynst the promyses of God? God forbyd. Howbeit yf there had bene geuen a lawe which coulde haue geue life, the no doute righteousnes shulde come of the lawe.
  • Luke 22:20 : 20 Likewyse also the cuppe, after they had supped, and sayde: This cuppe is the new Testamet in my bloude, which shalbe shed for you.
  • Rom 9:4 : 4 which are off Israel: vnto whom pertayneth the childshippe, and the glory, and the couenauntes and lawe, and the seruyce of God, and the promyses:
  • 2 Pet 1:4 : 4 wherby the excellent and most greate promyses are geue vnto vs: namely, that ye by the same shulde be partakers of the godly nature, yf ye flye the corrupte lust of the worlde:
  • Heb 8:7-9 : 7 For yf that first (Testament) had bene fautles, then shulde no place haue bene soughte for the secode. 8 For in rebukynge the he sayeth: Beholde, the dayes wyll come (sayeth the LORDE) that I wyl fynish vpo the house of Israel, and vpon the house off Iuda, 9 a new Testament: not as the Testament which I made with their fathers, in that daye whan I toke them by the handes, to lede them out of the londe of Egipte: for they contynued not in my Testament, and I regarded them not, sayeth the LORDE. 10 For this is the Testament, that I wil make wt the house of Israell after those dayes, sayeth the LORDE. I wyl geue my lawes in their mynde, and in their hertes wyl I wryte them: And I wil be their God, and they shal be my people: 11 and they shal not teach euery ma his neghboure, and euery man his brother, sayenge: knowe ye LORDE, for they shal knowe me from the leest to the most of them: 12 for I wil be mercifull ouer their vnrighteousnesses: And on their synnes & on their iniquyties wyl I not thynke enymore. 13 In that he sayeth: A new, he weereth out ye olde. Now yt which is worne out and waxed olde, is ready to vanish awaye
  • Heb 9:15-20 : 15 And for this cause is he ye mediatour of the new Testament, that thorow death which chaunsed for the redempcion of those trasgressions (that were vnder the first Testament) they which were called mighte receaue the promes of eternall inheritaunce. 16 For where soeuer is a Testament, there must also be the death of him that maketh the testament. 17 For a Testamet taketh auctorite whan men are deed: for it is no value, as longe as he that made it is alyue. 18 For the which cause that first Testamet also was not ordeyned without bloude. 19 For whan all the commaundementes (acordinge to the lawe) were red of Moses vnto all the people, he toke ye bloude of calues and of goates, with water and purple woll and ysope, and sprenkled the boke and all the people, 20 sayenge: This is the bloude of the Testament, which God hath appoynted vnto you.
  • Titus 1:2 : 2 vpon the hope of eternall life: which God that can not lye hath promysed before the tymes of the worlde:

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  • Heb 8:7-8
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    7 For yf that first (Testament) had bene fautles, then shulde no place haue bene soughte for the secode.

    8 For in rebukynge the he sayeth: Beholde, the dayes wyll come (sayeth the LORDE) that I wyl fynish vpo the house of Israel, and vpon the house off Iuda,

  • Heb 7:15-22
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    15 And it is yet a more euident thinge, yf after the symilitude of Mechisedech there aryse another prest,

    16 which is not made after ye lawe of the carnall commaundement, but after the power of the endlesse life

    17 (For he testifieth: Thou art a prest for euer after the order of Melchisedech)

    18 then the commaundement that wente before, is disanulled, because of his weaknesse, and vnprofitablenes.

    19 For the lawe made nothinge perfecte, but was an introduccion of a better hope, by ye which hope we drawe nye vnto God.

    20 And for this cause is it a better hope, yt it was not promysed without an ooth.

    21 Those prestes were made without an ooth, but this prest with an ooth, by him that sayde vnto him: The LORDE sware, and wyl not repente: Thou art a prest for euer after the order of Melchisedech.

    22 Thus is Iesus become a stablissher of so moch a better Testamete.

  • 15 And for this cause is he ye mediatour of the new Testament, that thorow death which chaunsed for the redempcion of those trasgressions (that were vnder the first Testament) they which were called mighte receaue the promes of eternall inheritaunce.

  • Heb 8:1-5
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    1 Of the thinges which we haue spoken, this is the pyth: We haue soch an hye prest, that is set on ye righte hande of the seate of maiestie in heaue:

    2 and is a mynister of holy thinges, and of the true Tabernacle, which God pitched, & not man.

    3 For euery hye prest is ordened to offre giftes and sacrifices: Wherfore it is of necessite, yt this man haue somwhat also to offer.

    4 For he were not a prest, yf he were vpon earth, where are prestes yt acordynge to the lawe

    5 offer giftes (which prestes serue vnto the ensample and shadowe of heauely thinges, euen as the answere of God was geuen vnto Moses, whan he was aboute to fynish the Tabernacle: Take hede (sayde he) that thou make all thinges acordinge to the patrone shewed the in the mount.)

  • Heb 9:11-12
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    11 But Christ beynge an hye prest of good thinges to come, came by a greater and a more perfecte Tabernacle, not made with handes, that is to saye, not of this maner buyldynge:

    12 nether by the bloude of goates or calues: but by his owne bloude entred he once for all in to the holy place, and hath founde eternall redempcion.

  • 24 and to Iesus the mediatoure of the new Testament, and to the sprenklynge off bloude, that speaketh better then the bloude of Abel.

  • 13 In that he sayeth: A new, he weereth out ye olde. Now yt which is worne out and waxed olde, is ready to vanish awaye

  • 20 whither the foreruner is for vs entred in, eue Iesus, which is made an hye prest for euer after ye order of Melchisedech.

  • 28 For the lawe maketh men prestes which haue infirmitie: but the worde of the ooth, that came sence the lawe, maketh the sonne prest, which is perfecte for euermore.

  • 4 beynge eue as moch more excellet the ye angels, as he hath optayned a more excellet name then they.

  • 17 But God, wyllinge very abundauntly to shewe vnto the heyres of promes the stablenes of his councell, added an ooth

  • 6 When these thinges were thus ordeyned, the prestes wente allwayes in to the first Tabernacle, and excuted ye seruyce of God.

  • Heb 7:11-12
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    11 Yf now therfore perfeccion came by the presthode of the Leuites (for vnder the same (presthode) the people receaued the lawe) what neded it then furthurmore, that another prest shulde ryse after the order of Melchisedech, and not after the order of Aaron?

    12 For yf the presthode be traslated, the of necessite must the lawe be translated also.

  • 1 That first Tabernacle verely had ordinaunces, and seruynges off God and outwarde holynes.

  • Heb 9:8-9
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    8 Wherwith the holy goost this signifyeth, that the waye of holynes was not yet opened, whyle as yet the first Tabernacle was stondynge.

    9 Which was a symilitude for the tyme then present, in the which were offred giftes and sacrifices, and coulde not make perfecte (as partaynynge to the conscience) him, that dyd the Gods seruyce

  • Heb 9:23-24
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    23 It is necessary then, that the symilitude of heauenly thinges be purified with soche: but ye heauenly thinges themselues are purified with better sacrifices, then are those.

    24 For Christ is not entred into the holy places yt are made with handes (which are but symilitudes of true thinges) but in to the very heauen, for to apeare now before the face of God for vs:

  • 1 For the lawe which hath but the shadowe off good thinges to come, and not the thinges in their awne fashion, can neuer by the sacrifices which they offer yeare by yeare continually, make the commers there vnto perfecte:

  • 20 sayenge: This is the bloude of the Testament, which God hath appoynted vnto you.

  • 7 Now is it so without all naysayenge, that the lesse receaueth blessynge of ye better.

  • 6 As he sayeth also in another place: Thou art a prest for euer after ye order of Melchisedech.

  • Heb 3:1-3
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    1 Wherfore holy brethren, ye that are partakers of the heauely callynge, consyder the Embasseatour and hye prest of or profession, Christ Iesus,

    2 which is faithfull to him that ordeyned him, euen as was Moses in all his house.

    3 But this man is worthy of greater honoure then moses, in as moch as he which prepareth the house, hath greater honoure in it, then the house it selfe.

  • 40 because God had prouyded a better thinge for vs, that they without vs shulde not be made perfecte.

  • Heb 7:25-26
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    25 Wherfore he is able also euer to saue them, that come vnto God by him: & lyueth euer, to make intercession for vs.

    26 For it became vs to haue soch an hye prest as is holy, innocent, vndefyled, separate from synners, and made hyer then heauen:

  • 9 The sayde he: Lo, I come to do wil thy O God: there taketh he awaye the first, to stablysshe the latter:

  • 20 The God of peace (that broughte agayue fro the deed oure LORDE Iesus the greate shepherde of the shepe thorow the bloude of the euerlastinge Testament)

  • 21 and seynge also that we haue an hye prest ouer the house of God,

  • 15 And the holy goost also beareth vs recorde of this, euen whan he sayde before:

  • 8 how shal not ye mynistracion of ye sprete be moch more glorious?

  • 18 For the which cause that first Testamet also was not ordeyned without bloude.

  • 14 Seynge then that we haue a greate hye prest, eue Iesus ye sonne of God, which is entred in to heauen, let vs holde oure profession.

  • 10 and is called of God an hye prest after the order of Melchisedech.