Hebrews 8:6

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and now he hath obtained a more excellent service, how much also of a better covenant is he mediator, which on better promises hath been sanctioned,

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  • Heb 7:22 : 22 by so much of a better covenant hath Jesus become surety,
  • Heb 12:24 : 24 and to a mediator of a new covenant -- Jesus, and to blood of sprinkling, speaking better things than that of Abel!
  • 2 Cor 3:6-9 : 6 who also made us sufficient `to be' ministrants of a new covenant, not of letter, but of spirit; for the letter doth kill, and the spirit doth make alive. 7 and if the ministration of the death, in letters, engraved in stones, came in glory, so that the sons of Israel were not able to look stedfastly to the face of Moses, because of the glory of his face -- which was being made useless, 8 how shall the ministration of the Spirit not be more in glory? 9 for if the ministration of the condemnation `is' glory, much more doth the ministration of the righteousness abound in glory; 10 for also even that which hath been glorious, hath not been glorious -- in this respect, because of the superior glory; 11 for if that which is being made useless `is' through glory, much more that which is remaining `is' in glory.
  • Gal 3:16-21 : 16 and to Abraham were the promises spoken, and to his seed; He doth not say, `And to seeds,' as of many, but as of one, `And to thy seed,' which is Christ; 17 and this I say, A covenant confirmed before by God to Christ, the law, that came four hundred and thirty years after, doth not set aside, to make void the promise, 18 for if by law `be' the inheritance, `it is' no more by promise, but to Abraham through promise did God grant `it'. 19 Why, then, the law? on account of the transgressions it was added, till the seed might come to which the promise hath been made, having been set in order through messengers in the hand of a mediator -- 20 and the mediator is not of one, and God is one -- 21 the law, then, `is' against the promises of God? -- let it not be! for if a law was given that was able to make alive, truly by law there would have been the righteousness,
  • Luke 22:20 : 20 In like manner, also, the cup after the supping, saying, `This cup `is' the new covenant in my blood, that for you is being poured forth.
  • Rom 9:4 : 4 who are Israelites, whose `is' the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the lawgiving, and the service, and the promises,
  • 2 Pet 1:4 : 4 through which to us the most great and precious promises have been given, that through these ye may become partakers of a divine nature, having escaped from the corruption in the world in desires.
  • Heb 8:7-9 : 7 for if that first were faultless, a place would not have been sought for a second. 8 For finding fault, He saith to them, `Lo, days come, saith the Lord, and I will complete with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah, a new covenant, 9 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers, in the day of My taking `them' by their hand, to bring them out of the land of Egypt -- because they did not remain in My covenant, and I did not regard them, saith the Lord, -- 10 because this `is' the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, after those days, saith the Lord, giving My laws into their mind, and upon their hearts I will write them, and I will be to them for a God, and they shall be to Me for a people; 11 and they shall not teach each his neighbour, and each his brother, saying, Know thou the Lord, because they shall all know Me from the small one of them unto the great one of them, 12 because I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawlessnesses I will remember no more;' -- 13 in the saying `new,' He hath made the first old, and what doth become obsolete and is old `is' nigh disappearing.
  • Heb 9:15-20 : 15 And because of this, of a new covenant he is mediator, that, death having come, for redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, those called may receive the promise of the age-during inheritance, 16 for where a covenant `is', the death of the covenant-victim to come in is necessary, 17 for a covenant over dead victims `is' stedfast, since it is no force at all when the covenant-victim liveth, 18 whence not even the first apart from blood hath been initiated, 19 for every command having been spoken, according to law, by Moses, to all the people, having taken the blood of the calves and goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, he both the book itself and all the people did sprinkle, 20 saying, `This `is' the blood of the covenant that God enjoined unto you,'
  • Titus 1:2 : 2 upon hope of life age-during, which God, who doth not lie, did promise before times of ages,

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  • Heb 8:7-8
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    7for if that first were faultless, a place would not have been sought for a second.

    8For finding fault, He saith to them, `Lo, days come, saith the Lord, and I will complete with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah, a new covenant,

  • Heb 7:15-22
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    15And it is yet more abundantly most evident, if according to the similitude of Melchisedek there doth arise another priest,

    16who came not according to the law of a fleshly command, but according to the power of an endless life,

    17for He doth testify -- `Thou `art' a priest -- to the age, according to the order of Melchisedek;'

    18for a disannulling indeed doth come of the command going before because of its weakness, and unprofitableness,

    19(for nothing did the law perfect) and the bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw nigh to God.

    20And inasmuch as `it is' not apart from oath, (for those indeed apart from oath are become priests,

    21and he with an oath through Him who is saying unto him, `The Lord sware, and will not repent, Thou `art' a priest -- to the age, according to the order of Melchisedek;')

    22by so much of a better covenant hath Jesus become surety,

  • Heb 9:15
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    15And because of this, of a new covenant he is mediator, that, death having come, for redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, those called may receive the promise of the age-during inheritance,

  • Heb 8:1-5
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    1And the sum concerning the things spoken of `is': we have such a chief priest, who did sit down at the right hand of the throne of the greatness in the heavens,

    2of the holy places a servant, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord did set up, and not man,

    3for every chief priest to offer both gifts and sacrifices is appointed, whence `it is' necessary for this one to have also something that he may offer;

    4for if, indeed, he were upon earth, he would not be a priest -- (there being the priests who are offering according to the law, the gifts,

    5who unto an example and shadow do serve of the heavenly things, as Moses hath been divinely warned, being about to construct the tabernacle, for `See (saith He) thou mayest make all things according to the pattern that was shewn to thee in the mount;') --

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    11And Christ being come, chief priest of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands -- that is, not of this creation --

    12neither through blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, did enter in once into the holy places, age-during redemption having obtained;

  • Heb 12:24
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    24and to a mediator of a new covenant -- Jesus, and to blood of sprinkling, speaking better things than that of Abel!

  • Heb 8:13
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    13in the saying `new,' He hath made the first old, and what doth become obsolete and is old `is' nigh disappearing.

  • Heb 6:20
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    20whither a forerunner for us did enter -- Jesus, after the order of Melchisedek chief priest having become -- to the age.

  • Heb 7:28
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    28for the law doth appoint men chief priests, having infirmity, but the word of the oath that `is' after the law `appointeth' the Son -- to the age having been perfected.

  • Heb 1:4
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    4having become so much better than the messengers, as he did inherit a more excellent name than they.

  • Heb 6:17
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    17in which God, more abundantly willing to shew to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, did interpose by an oath,

  • Heb 9:6
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    6And these things having been thus prepared, into the first tabernacle, indeed, at all times the priests do go in, performing the services,

  • Heb 7:11-12
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    11If indeed, then, perfection were through the Levitical priesthood -- for the people under it had received law -- what further need, according to the order of Melchisedek, for another priest to arise, and not to be called according to the order of Aaron?

    12for the priesthood being changed, of necessity also, of the law a change doth come,

  • Heb 9:1
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    1It had, indeed, then (even the first tabernacle) ordinances of service, also a worldly sanctuary,

  • Heb 9:8-9
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    8the Holy Spirit this evidencing that not yet hath been manifested the way of the holy `places', the first tabernacle having yet a standing;

    9which `is' a simile in regard to the present time, in which both gifts and sacrifices are offered, which are not able, in regard to conscience, to make perfect him who is serving,

  • Heb 9:23-24
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    23`It is' necessary, therefore, the pattern indeed of the things in the heavens to be purified with these, and the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these;

    24for not into holy places made with hands did the Christ enter -- figures of the true -- but into the heaven itself, now to be manifested in the presence of God for us;

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    1For the law having a shadow of the coming good things -- not the very image of the matters, every year, by the same sacrifices that they offer continually, is never able to make perfect those coming near,

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    20saying, `This `is' the blood of the covenant that God enjoined unto you,'

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    7and apart from all controversy, the less by the better is blessed --

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    6as also in another `place' He saith, `Thou `art' a priest -- to the age, according to the order of Melchisedek;'

  • Heb 3:1-3
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    1Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the apostle and chief priest of our profession, Christ Jesus,

    2being stedfast to Him who did appoint him, as also Moses in all his house,

    3for of more glory than Moses hath this one been counted worthy, inasmuch as more honour than the house hath he who doth build it,

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    40God for us something better having provided, that apart from us they might not be made perfect.

  • Heb 7:25-26
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    25whence also he is able to save to the very end, those coming through him unto God -- ever living to make intercession for them.

    26For such a chief priest did become us -- kind, harmless, undefiled, separate from the sinners, and become higher than the heavens,

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    9then he said, `Lo, I come to do, O God, Thy will;' he doth take away the first that the second he may establish;

  • Heb 13:20
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    20And the God of the peace, who did bring up out of the dead the great shepherd of the sheep -- in the blood of an age-during covenant -- our Lord Jesus,

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    21and a high priest over the house of God,

  • Heb 10:15
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    15and testify to us also doth the Holy Spirit, for after that He hath said before,

  • 2 Cor 3:8
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    8how shall the ministration of the Spirit not be more in glory?

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    18whence not even the first apart from blood hath been initiated,

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    14Having, then, a great chief priest passed through the heavens -- Jesus the Son of God -- may we hold fast the profession,

  • Heb 5:10
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    10having been addressed by God a chief priest, according to the order of Melchisedek,