Christ is the high priest of a better covenant, serving in the true tent in heaven. God promised to write his laws on people's hearts. The old covenant is becoming obsolete.
1 Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum : We have such an high priest , who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens ;
2 A minister of the sanctuary , and of the true tabernacle , which the Lord pitched , and not man .
3 For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices : wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer .
4 For if he were on earth , he should not be a priest , seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law :
5 Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things , as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle : for , See , saith he , that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount .
6 But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry , by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant , which was established upon better promises .
7 For if that first covenant had been faultless , then should no place have been sought for the second .
8 For finding fault with them , he saith , Behold , the days come , saith the Lord , when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah :
9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt ; because they continued not in my covenant , and I regarded them not , saith the Lord .
10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days , saith the Lord ; I will put my laws into their mind , and write them in their hearts : and I will be to them a God , and they shall be to me a people :
11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour , and every man his brother , saying , Know the Lord : for all shall know me , from the least to the greatest .
12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness , and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more .
13 In that he saith , A new covenant, he hath made the first old . Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away .