Hebrews 8:6 Cross References - Coverdale

⁶ But now hath he optayned a more excellent office, in as moch as he is the mediatour of a better Testament, which was made for better promyses.

²⁰ Likewyse also the cuppe, after they had supped, and sayde: This cuppe is the new Testamet in my bloude, which shalbe shed for you.

⁴ which are off Israel: vnto whom pertayneth the childshippe, and the glory, and the couenauntes and lawe, and the seruyce of God, and the promyses:

⁶ which hath made vs able, to be mynisters of the new Testament: not of the letter, but of the sprete. For the letter kylleth, but the sprete geueth life. ⁷ But yf the mynistracion yt kylleth thorow the letter, and was figured in stones, was glorious, so that the childre of Israel mighte not beholde the face of Moses, for ye clearnesse of his countenauce, (which glory neuertheles is done awaye) ⁸ how shal not ye mynistracion of ye sprete be moch more glorious? ⁹ For yf the office that preacheth damnacion be glorious, moch more doth the office that preacheth righteousnes exceade in glory. ¹⁰ For ye other parte that was glorified is nothinge glorified in respecte of this exceadinge glory. ¹¹ For yf that which is done awaye, be glorious, moch more shal yt which remayneth, be glorious.

¹⁶ To Abraham and his sede were the promyses made. He sayeth not: In the sedes, as in many, but in thy sede, as in one, which is Christ. ¹⁷ This Testament (I saye) which afore was confirmed to Christ warde, is not disanulled (that the promes shulde be made of none affecte) by the lawe which was geuen beyonde foure hundreth & thirtie yeares therafter. ¹⁸ For yf the enheritaunce be gotten by the lawe, then is it not geuen by promes. But God gaue it frely vnto Abraham by promes. ¹⁹ Wherfore the serueth the lawe? It was added because of trangression, tyll the sede came, to the which the promes was made. And it was geuen of angels, by the hande of the mediatoure. ²⁰ A mediatour is not a mediatour of one onely, but God is one. ²¹ Is the lawe then agaynst the promyses of God? God forbyd. Howbeit yf there had bene geuen a lawe which coulde haue geue life, the no doute righteousnes shulde come of the lawe.

² vpon the hope of eternall life: which God that can not lye hath promysed before the tymes of the worlde:

²² Thus is Iesus become a stablissher of so moch a better Testamete.

⁷ For yf that first (Testament) had bene fautles, then shulde no place haue bene soughte for the secode. ⁸ For in rebukynge the he sayeth: Beholde, the dayes wyll come (sayeth the LORDE) that I wyl fynish vpo the house of Israel, and vpon the house off Iuda, ⁹ a new Testament: not as the Testament which I made with their fathers, in that daye whan I toke them by the handes, to lede them out of the londe of Egipte: for they contynued not in my Testament, and I regarded them not, sayeth the LORDE. ¹⁰ For this is the Testament, that I wil make wt the house of Israell after those dayes, sayeth the LORDE. I wyl geue my lawes in their mynde, and in their hertes wyl I wryte them: And I wil be their God, and they shal be my people: ¹¹ and they shal not teach euery ma his neghboure, and euery man his brother, sayenge: knowe ye LORDE, for they shal knowe me from the leest to the most of them: ¹² for I wil be mercifull ouer their vnrighteousnesses: And on their synnes & on their iniquyties wyl I not thynke enymore. ¹³ In that he sayeth: A new, he weereth out ye olde. Now yt which is worne out and waxed olde, is ready to vanish awaye

¹⁵ And for this cause is he ye mediatour of the new Testament, that thorow death which chaunsed for the redempcion of those trasgressions (that were vnder the first Testament) they which were called mighte receaue the promes of eternall inheritaunce. ¹⁶ For where soeuer is a Testament, there must also be the death of him that maketh the testament. ¹⁷ For a Testamet taketh auctorite whan men are deed: for it is no value, as longe as he that made it is alyue. ¹⁸ For the which cause that first Testamet also was not ordeyned without bloude. ¹⁹ For whan all the commaundementes (acordinge to the lawe) were red of Moses vnto all the people, he toke ye bloude of calues and of goates, with water and purple woll and ysope, and sprenkled the boke and all the people, ²⁰ sayenge: This is the bloude of the Testament, which God hath appoynted vnto you.

²⁴ and to Iesus the mediatoure of the new Testament, and to the sprenklynge off bloude, that speaketh better then the bloude of Abel.

⁴ wherby the excellent and most greate promyses are geue vnto vs: namely, that ye by the same shulde be partakers of the godly nature, yf ye flye the corrupte lust of the worlde: