hebrew 8:6 a mediator of abetter covenant with better promises (2)
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“If there is a messenger for him,
A mediator, one among a thousand,
To show man His uprightness,
“Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt!
Add year to year;
Let feasts come around.
So it was, as soon as the days of his service were completed, that he departed to his own house.
Likewise He also took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood, which is shed for you.
who are Israelites, to whom pertain the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service of God, and the promises;
who also made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
But if the ministry of death, written and engraved on stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance, which glory was passing away, how will the ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious? For if the ministry of condemnation had glory, the ministry of righteousness exceeds much more in glory. For even what was made glorious had no glory in this respect, because of the glory that excels. For if what is passing away was glorious, what remains is much more glorious.
What purpose then does the law serve? It was added because of transgressions, till the Seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was appointed through angels by the hand of a mediator. Now a mediator does not mediate for one only, but God is one.
For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus,
having become so much better than the angels, as He has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
Therefore, if perfection were through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people received the law), what further need was there that another priest should rise according to the order of Melchizedek, and not be called according to the order of Aaron?
for the law made nothing perfect; on the other hand, there is the bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.
by so much more Jesus has become a surety of a better covenant.
Because finding fault with them, He says: “Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah—
In that He says, “A new covenant,” He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.
And for this reason He is the Mediator of the new covenant, by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, that those who are called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.
Then likewise he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry.
to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel.
Now may the God of peace who brought up our Lord Jesus from the dead, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,