Hebrews 8:7

Geneva Bible (1560)

For if that first Testament had bene vnblameable, no place should haue bene sought for the second.

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  • Heb 7:11 : 11 If therefore perfection had bene by the Priesthoode of the Leuites (for vnder it the Lawe was established to the people) what needed it furthermore, that another Priest should rise after the order of Melchi-sedec, and not to be called after the order of Aaron?
  • Heb 7:18 : 18 For the commaundement that went afore, is disanulled, because of the weakenes thereof, and vnprofitablenes.
  • Heb 8:6 : 6 But nowe our hie Priest hath obteined a more excellent office, in as much as he is the Mediatour of a better Testament, which is established vpon better promises.
  • Gal 3:21 : 21 Is the Lawe then against the promises of God? God forbid: For if there had bene a Lawe giuen which coulde haue giuen life, surely righteousnes should haue bene by the Lawe.

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  • Heb 8:8-9
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    84%

    8For in rebuking them he saith, Beholde, the dayes will come, saith the Lorde, when I shall make with the house of Israel, & with the house of Iuda a newe Testament:

    9Not like the Testament that I made with their fathers, in the day that I tooke them by the hand, to leade them out of the land of Egypt: for they continued not in my Testament, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.

  • Heb 8:4-6
    3 verses
    81%

    4For he were not a Priest, if he were on the earth, seeing there are Priestes that according to the Lawe offer giftes,

    5Who serue vnto the paterne and shadowe of heauenly things, as Moses was warned by God, whe he was about to finish the Tabernacle. See, saide hee, that thou make all thinges according to the paterne, shewed to thee in the mount.

    6But nowe our hie Priest hath obteined a more excellent office, in as much as he is the Mediatour of a better Testament, which is established vpon better promises.

  • Heb 8:12-13
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    12For I will bee mercifull to their vnrighteousnes, and I wil remember their sinnes and their iniquities no more.

    13In that he saith a new Testament, he hath abrogate the olde: nowe that which is disanulled and waxed olde, is ready to vanish away.

  • Heb 7:15-22
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    15And it is yet a more euident thing, because that after the similitude of Melchi-sedec, there is risen vp another Priest,

    16Which is not made Priest after the Law of the carnal commandement, but after the power of the endlesse life.

    17For hee testifieth thus, Thou art a Priest for euer, after the order of Melchi-sedec.

    18For the commaundement that went afore, is disanulled, because of the weakenes thereof, and vnprofitablenes.

    19For the Law made nothing perfite, but the bringing in of a better hope made perfite, whereby we drawe neere vnto God.

    20And for as much as it is not without an othe (for these are made Priestes without an othe:

    21But this is made with an othe by him that said vnto him, The Lord hath sworne, and will not repent, Thou art a Priest for euer, after the order of Melchi-sedec)

    22By so much is Iesus made a suretie of a better Testament.

  • Heb 7:11-13
    3 verses
    74%

    11If therefore perfection had bene by the Priesthoode of the Leuites (for vnder it the Lawe was established to the people) what needed it furthermore, that another Priest should rise after the order of Melchi-sedec, and not to be called after the order of Aaron?

    12For if the Priesthood be changed, then of necessitie must there be a change of the Lawe.

    13For hee of whome these things are spoken, perteineth vnto another tribe, whereof no man serued at the altar.

  • Heb 9:15-18
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    15And for this cause is he the Mediatour of the newe Testament, that through death which was for the redemption of the transgressions that were in the former Testament, they which were called, might receiue the promise of eternall inheritance.

    16For where a Testament is, there must be the death of him that made the Testament.

    17For the Testament is confirmed when men are dead: for it is yet of no force as long as he that made it, is aliue.

    18Wherefore neither was the first ordeined without blood.

  • Heb 9:1
    73%

    1Then the first Testament had also ordinances of religion, and a worldly Sanctuarie.

  • Heb 8:2
    72%

    2And is a minister of the Sanctuarie, and of that true Tabernacle which the Lorde pight, and not man.

  • Heb 9:6-9
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    6Nowe when these things were thus ordeined, the Priestes went alwayes into the first Tabernacle, and accomplished the seruice.

    7But into the second went the hie Priest alone, once euery yere, not without blood which hee offered for himselfe, and for the ignorances of the people.

    8Whereby the holy Ghost this signified, that the way into ye Holiest of all was not yet opened, while as yet the first tabernacle was standing,

    9Which was a figure for that present time, wherein were offred gifts and sacrifices that could not make holy, concerning the conscience, him that did the seruice,

  • Heb 10:1-2
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    1For the Lawe hauing the shadowe of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can neuer with those sacrifices, which they offer yeere by yeere continually, sanctifie the commers thereunto.

    2For would they not then haue ceased to haue bene offered, because that the offerers once purged, should haue had no more conscience of sinnes?

  • Heb 7:28
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    28For the Lawe maketh men hie Priestes, which haue infirmitie: but the word of the othe that was since the Lawe, maketh the Sonne, who is consecrated for euermore.

  • Heb 2:2
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    2For if the worde spoken by Angels was stedfast, and euery transgression, and disobedience receiued a iust recompence of reward,

  • Heb 11:40
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    40God prouiding a better thing for vs, that they without vs should not be made perfite.

  • Heb 9:11
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    11But Christ being come an high Priest of good things to come, by a greater and a more perfect Tabernacle, not made with handes, that is, not of this building,

  • Heb 10:8-9
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    8Aboue, when he sayd, Sacrifice and offring, and burnt offrings, and sinne offrings thou wouldest not haue, neither hadst pleasure therein (which are offered by the Lawe)

    9Then sayd he, Lo, I come to doe thy wil, O God, he taketh away the first, that he may stablish the second.

  • Heb 4:8
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    8For if Iesus had giuen them rest, then would he not after this haue spoke of an other day.

  • Jer 31:31-32
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    70%

    31Beholde, the dayes come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new couenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Iudah,

    32Not according to ye couenant that I made with their fathers, when I tooke them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, the which my couenant they brake, although I was an husband vnto them, saith the Lord.

  • Heb 12:17
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    17For ye knowe howe that afterwarde also when he woulde haue inherited the blessing, he was reiected: for he founde no place to repentance, though he sought that blessing with teares.

  • Heb 6:17
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    17So God, willing more aboundantly to shew vnto the heires of promes the stablenes of his counsell, bound himselfe by an othe,

  • Heb 4:5-6
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    5And in this place againe, If they shall enter into my rest.

    6Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter thereinto, & they to whom it was first preached, entred not therein for vnbeliefes sake:

  • 2 Cor 3:10
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    10For euen that which was glorified, was not glorified in this point, that is, as touching the exceeding glorie.

  • Gal 3:17
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    17And this I say, that the couenant that was confirmed afore of God in respect of Christ, the Lawe which was foure hundreth and thirtie yeeres after, can not disanull, that it shoulde make the promise of none effect.

  • 2 Cor 3:7
    68%

    7If then the ministration of death written with letters and ingrauen in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel coulde not beholde the face of Moses, for the glorie of his countenance (which glorie is done away.)

  • Heb 10:4
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    4For it is vnpossible that the blood of bulles and goates should take away sinnes.

  • Mal 2:8
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    8But yee are gone out of the way: yee haue caused many to fall by the Lawe: yee haue broken the couenant of Leui, sayeth the Lord of hostes.

  • Gal 2:18
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    18For if I build againe the things that I haue destroyed, I make my selfe a trespasser.

  • Gal 3:15
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    15Brethren, I speake as men do: though it be but a mans couenant, when it is confirmed, yet no man doeth abrogate it, or addeth any thing thereto.