Hebrews 8:13

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When he speaks of a new covenant, he makes the first obsolete. Now what is growing obsolete and aging is about to disappear.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Cor 5:17 : 17 So then, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; what is old has passed away– look, what is new has come!
  • Heb 7:11-12 : 11 Jesus and the Priesthood of Melchizedek So if perfection had in fact been possible through the Levitical priesthood– for on that basis the people received the law– what further need would there have been for another priest to arise, said to be in the order of Melchizedek and not in Aaron’s order? 12 For when the priesthood changes, a change in the law must come as well.
  • Heb 7:18-19 : 18 On the one hand a former command is set aside because it is weak and useless, 19 for the law made nothing perfect. On the other hand a better hope is introduced, through which we draw near to God.
  • Heb 9:15 : 15 And so he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the eternal inheritance he has promised, since he died to set them free from the violations committed under the first covenant.
  • Isa 51:6 : 6 Look up at the sky! Look at the earth below! For the sky will dissipate like smoke, and the earth will wear out like clothes; its residents will die like gnats. But the deliverance I give is permanent; the vindication I provide will not disappear.
  • Matt 24:35 : 35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.
  • 1 Cor 13:8 : 8 Love never ends. But if there are prophecies, they will be set aside; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be set aside.
  • Heb 9:9-9 : 9 This was a symbol for the time then present, when gifts and sacrifices were offered that could not perfect the conscience of the worshiper. 10 They served only for matters of food and drink and various ritual washings; they are external regulations imposed until the new order came.

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  • Heb 8:6-10
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    79%

    6But now Jesus has obtained a superior ministry, since the covenant that he mediates is also better and is enacted on better promises.

    7For if that first covenant had been faultless, no one would have looked for a second one.

    8But showing its fault, God says to them,“Look, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will complete a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.

    9“It will not be like the covenant that I made with their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they did not continue in my covenant and I had no regard for them, says the Lord.

    10“For this is the covenant that I will establish with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord. I will put my laws in their minds and I will inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God and they will be my people.

  • Heb 8:12
    77%

    12“For I will be merciful toward their evil deeds, and their sins I will remember no longer.”

  • Jer 31:31-32
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    74%

    31“Indeed, a time is coming,” says the LORD,“when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and Judah.

    32It will not be like the old covenant that I made with their ancestors when I delivered them from Egypt. For they violated that covenant, even though I was like a faithful husband to them,” says the LORD.

  • Heb 9:15-18
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    15And so he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the eternal inheritance he has promised, since he died to set them free from the violations committed under the first covenant.

    16For where there is a will, the death of the one who made it must be proven.

    17For a will takes effect only at death, since it carries no force while the one who made it is alive.

    18So even the first covenant was inaugurated with blood.

  • Heb 7:18-19
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    18On the one hand a former command is set aside because it is weak and useless,

    19for the law made nothing perfect. On the other hand a better hope is introduced, through which we draw near to God.

  • Heb 10:9
    72%

    9then he says,“Here I am: I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first to establish the second.

  • 2 Cor 5:17
    71%

    17So then, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; what is old has passed away– look, what is new has come!

  • Heb 10:15-18
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    15And the Holy Spirit also witnesses to us, for after saying,

    16“This is the covenant that I will establish with them after those days, says the Lord. I will put my laws on their hearts and I will inscribe them on their minds,”

    17then he says,“Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no longer.”

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

  • 1 Cor 13:10
    71%

    10but when what is perfect comes, the partial will be set aside.

  • Heb 9:8-9
    2 verses
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    8The Holy Spirit is making clear that the way into the holy place had not yet appeared as long as the old tabernacle was standing.

    9This was a symbol for the time then present, when gifts and sacrifices were offered that could not perfect the conscience of the worshiper.

  • Heb 9:11
    70%

    11Christ’s Service in the Heavenly Sanctuary But now Christ has come as the high priest of the good things to come. He passed through the greater and more perfect tent not made with hands, that is, not of this creation,

  • 2 Cor 3:13-14
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    13and not like Moses who used to put a veil over his face to keep the Israelites from staring at the result of the glory that was made ineffective.

    14But their minds were closed. For to this very day, the same veil remains when they hear the old covenant read. It has not been removed because only in Christ is it taken away.

  • Heb 1:11-12
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    11They will perish, but you continue. And they will all grow old like a garment,

    12and like a robe you will fold them up and like a garment they will be changed, but you are the same and your years will never run out.”

  • Heb 7:12
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    12For when the priesthood changes, a change in the law must come as well.

  • Isa 43:18
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    18“Don’t remember these earlier events; don’t recall these former events.

  • Heb 10:1-3
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    1Concluding Exposition: Old and New Sacrifices Contrasted For the law possesses a shadow of the good things to come but not the reality itself, and is therefore completely unable, by the same sacrifices offered continually, year after year, to perfect those who come to worship.

    2For otherwise would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers would have been purified once for all and so have no further consciousness of sin?

    3But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins year after year.

  • Heb 13:8
    69%

    8Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever!

  • Luke 5:36-39
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    36He also told them a parable:“No one tears a patch from a new garment and sews it on an old garment. If he does, he will have torn the new, and the piece from the new will not match the old.

    37And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the new wine will burst the skins and will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed.

    38Instead new wine must be poured into new wineskins.

    39No one after drinking old wine wants the new, for he says,‘The old is good enough.’”

  • Rom 11:27
    69%

    27And this is my covenant with them, when I take away their sins.”

  • 2 Cor 3:11
    69%

    11For if what was made ineffective came with glory, how much more has what remains come in glory!

  • Isa 65:17
    69%

    17For look, I am ready to create new heavens and a new earth! The former ones will not be remembered; no one will think about them anymore.

  • Heb 9:20
    68%

    20and said,“This is the blood of the covenant that God has commanded you to keep.”

  • Gal 3:17
    68%

    17What I am saying is this: The law that came four hundred thirty years later does not cancel a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to invalidate the promise.

  • Heb 7:28
    68%

    28For the law appoints as high priests men subject to weakness, but the word of solemn affirmation that came after the law appoints a son made perfect forever.

  • Heb 12:27
    68%

    27Now this phrase“once more” indicates the removal of what is shaken, that is, of created things, so that what is unshaken may remain.

  • Heb 9:1
    68%

    1The Arrangement and Ritual of the Earthly Sanctuary Now the first covenant, in fact, had regulations for worship and its earthly sanctuary.

  • Mark 2:21
    68%

    21No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; otherwise, the patch pulls away from it, the new from the old, and the tear becomes worse.

  • Eccl 1:10
    68%

    10Is there anything about which someone can say,“Look at this! It is new!”? It was already done long ago, before our time.

  • Heb 6:17
    67%

    17In the same way God wanted to demonstrate more clearly to the heirs of the promise that his purpose was unchangeable, and so he intervened with an oath,

  • Heb 7:22
    67%

    22accordingly Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant.