Hebrews 8 Cross References - Moffatt

¹ The point of all this is, we do have such a high priest, one who is seated at the right hand of the throne of Majesty in the heavens, ² and who officiates in the sanctuary or true tabernacle set up by the Lord and not by man. ³ Now, as every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices, he too must have something to offer. ⁴ Were he on earth, he would not be a priest at all, for there are priests already to offer the gifts prescribed by Law ⁵ (men who serve a mere outline and shadow of the heavenly — as Moses was instructed, when he was about to execute the building of the tabernacle: see, God said, that you make everything on the pattern shown you upon the mountain). ⁶ As it is, however, the divine service he has obtained is superior, owing to the fact that he mediates a superior covenant, enacted with superior promises. ⁷ For if the first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion for a second. ⁸ Whereas God does find fault with the people of that covenant, when he says: The day is coming, saith the Lord, when I will conclude a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. It will not be on the lines of the covenant I made with their fathers, ⁹ on the day I took them by the hand to lead out of Egypt's land; for they would not hold to my covenant, so I let them alone, saith the Lord. ¹⁰ This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel when that day comes, saith the Lord; I will set my laws within their mind, inscribing them upon their hearts; I will be a God to them, and they shall be a People to me; ¹¹ one citizen will no longer teach his fellow, one man will no longer teach his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' for all will know me, low and high together. ¹² I will be merciful to their iniquities, and remember their sins no more. ¹³ By saying 'a new covenant,' he antiquates the first. And whatever is antiquated and aged is on the verge of vanishing.

³² I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob? He is not a God of dead people but of living."

³⁵ Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.

²⁸ this means my blood, the new covenant-blood, shed for many, to win the remission of their sins.

²³ So he took the blind man by the hand and led him outside the village; then, after spitting on his eyes, he laid his hands on him and asked him, "Do you see anything?"

²⁴ he said to them, "This means my covenant-blood which is shed for many;

²² To his disciples he said, "There will come days when you will long and long in vain to have even one day of the Son of man.

²⁰ So too he gave them the cup after supper, saying, "This cup means the new covenant ratified by my blood shed for your sake.

⁴⁴ Then he said to them, "When I was still with you, this is what I told you, that whatever is written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled."

⁴⁵ In the prophets it is written, and they will be all instructed by God; everyone who has listened to the Father and learned from him, comes to me.

⁵¹ I am the living bread which has come down from heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, he will live for ever; and more, the bread I will give is my flesh, given for the life of the world."

⁴⁴ In the desert our fathers had the tent of witness as arranged by Him who told Moses to make it after the pattern he had seen.

¹⁰ and all sorts and conditions of people attached themselves to him, declaring he was that Power of God which is known as 'the Great Power.'

⁸ Saul got up from the ground, but though his eyes were open he could see nothing; so they took his hand and led him to Damascus.

¹¹ See here, the Lord's hand will fall on you, and you will be blind, unable for a time to see the sun." In a moment a dark mist fell upon him, and he groped about for someone to take him by the hand.

³⁸ So you must understand, my brothers, that remission of sins is proclaimed to you through him, ³⁹ and that by him everyone who believes is absolved from all that the law of Moses never could absolve you from.

⁴ for they are Israelites, theirs is the Sonship, the Glory, the covenants, the divine legislation, the Worship, and the promises;

²⁵ As indeed he says in Hosea, Those who were no people of mine, I will call 'my People,' and her 'beloved' who was not beloved; ²⁶ on the very spot where they were told, 'You are no people of mine,' there shall they be called 'sons of the living God.'

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

⁸ Christ, I mean, became a servant to the circumcised in order to prove God's honesty by fulfilling His promises to the fathers,

¹⁶ Do you not know that he who joins himself to a harlot is one with her in body (for the pair, it is said, shall become one flesh),

²⁵ In the same way he took the cup after supper, saying, 'This cup means the new covenant ratified by my blood; as often as you drink it, do it in memory of me.'

⁸ Love never disappears. As for prophesying, it will be superseded; as for 'tongues,' they will cease; as for knowledge, it will be superseded.

³ you make it obvious that you are a letter of Christ which I have been employed to inscribe, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of the human heart.

⁶ and he has further qualified me to be the minister of a new covenant — a covenant not of written law but of spirit; for the written law kills but the Spirit makes alive.

⁶ and he has further qualified me to be the minister of a new covenant — a covenant not of written law but of spirit; for the written law kills but the Spirit makes alive. ⁷ Now if the administration of death which was engraved in letters of stone, was invested with glory — so much so, that the children of Israel could not gaze at the face of Moses on account of the dazzling glory that was fading from his face;

⁷ Now if the administration of death which was engraved in letters of stone, was invested with glory — so much so, that the children of Israel could not gaze at the face of Moses on account of the dazzling glory that was fading from his face; ⁸ surely the administration of the Spirit must be invested with still greater glory.

⁸ surely the administration of the Spirit must be invested with still greater glory. ⁹ If there was glory in the administration that condemned, then the administration that acquits abounds far more in glory ¹⁰ (indeed, in view of the transcendent glory, what was glorious has thus no glory at all); ¹¹ if what faded had its glory, then what lasts will be invested with far greater glory.

¹ I know that if this earthly tent of mine is taken down, I get a home from God, made by no human hands, eternal in the heavens.

¹⁷ There is a new creation whenever a man comes to be in Christ; what is old is gone, the new has come.

¹⁵ To take an illustration from human life, my brothers. Once a man's will is ratified, no one else annuls it or adds a codicil to it. ¹⁶ Now the Promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring; it is not said, 'and to your offsprings' in the plural, but in the singular and to your offspring — which is Christ.

¹⁶ Now the Promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring; it is not said, 'and to your offsprings' in the plural, but in the singular and to your offspring — which is Christ. ¹⁷ My point is this: the Law which arose four hundred and thirty years later does not repeal a will previously ratified by God, so as to cancel the Promise.

¹⁷ My point is this: the Law which arose four hundred and thirty years later does not repeal a will previously ratified by God, so as to cancel the Promise. ¹⁸ If the Inheritance is due to law, it ceases to be due to promise. Now it was by a promise that God bestowed it on Abraham.

¹⁸ If the Inheritance is due to law, it ceases to be due to promise. Now it was by a promise that God bestowed it on Abraham. ¹⁹ Then what about the Law? Well, it was interpolated for the purpose of producing transgressions till such time as the Offspring arrived to whom the Promise was made; also, it was transmitted by means of angels through the agency of an intermediary

¹⁹ Then what about the Law? Well, it was interpolated for the purpose of producing transgressions till such time as the Offspring arrived to whom the Promise was made; also, it was transmitted by means of angels through the agency of an intermediary ²⁰ (an intermediary implies more than one party, but God is one). ²¹ Then the Law is contrary to God's Promises? Never! Had there been any law which had the power of producing life, righteousness would really have been due to law,

²¹ Then the Law is contrary to God's Promises? Never! Had there been any law which had the power of producing life, righteousness would really have been due to law,

²⁴ Now this is an allegory. The women are two covenants. One comes from mount Sinai, bearing children for servitude; that is Hagar,

⁷ in whom we enjoy our redemption, the forgiveness of our trespasses, by the blood he shed.

² and lead lives of love, just as Christ loved you and gave himself up for you to be a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

²⁰ for the sake of which I am in custody as its envoy. Pray that I may have freedom to declare it as I should.

¹⁴ In him we enjoy our redemption, that is, the forgiveness of sins.

¹¹ in him you have been circumcised with no material circumcision that cuts flesh from the body, but with Christ's own circumcision,

¹⁷ All that is the mere shadow of what is to be; the substance belongs to Christ.

¹ Since then you have been raised with Christ, aim at what is above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God;

² serving in hope of the life eternal which God, who never lies, promised ages ago —

¹⁴ who gave himself up for us to redeem us from all iniquity and secure himself a clean people with a zest for good works.

³ He, reflecting God's bright glory and stamped with God's own character, sustains the universe with his word of power; when he had secured our purification from sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high;

¹³ To what angel did he ever say, 'Sit at my right hand, till I make your enemies a footstool for your feet'?

¹⁷ He had to resemble his brothers in every respect, in order to prove a merciful and faithful high priest in things divine, to expiate the sins of the People.

¹ Every high priest who is selected from men and appointed to act on behalf of men in things divine, offering gifts and sacrifices for sins,

¹¹ Further, if the Levitical priesthood had been the means of reaching perfection (for it was on the basis of that priesthood that the Law was enacted for the People), why was it still necessary for another sort of priest to emerge with the rank of Melchizedek, instead of simply with the rank of Aaron

¹¹ Further, if the Levitical priesthood had been the means of reaching perfection (for it was on the basis of that priesthood that the Law was enacted for the People), why was it still necessary for another sort of priest to emerge with the rank of Melchizedek, instead of simply with the rank of Aaron

¹¹ Further, if the Levitical priesthood had been the means of reaching perfection (for it was on the basis of that priesthood that the Law was enacted for the People), why was it still necessary for another sort of priest to emerge with the rank of Melchizedek, instead of simply with the rank of Aaron ¹² (for when the priesthood is changed, a change of law necessarily follows)?

¹² (for when the priesthood is changed, a change of law necessarily follows)? ¹³ He who is thus described belongs to another tribe, no member of which ever devoted himself to the altar; ¹⁴ for it is evident that our Lord sprang from Judah, and Moses never mentioned priesthood in connexion with that tribe. ¹⁵ This becomes all the more plain when another priest emerges resembling Melchizedek,

¹⁸ A previous command is set aside on account of its weakness and uselessness

¹⁸ A previous command is set aside on account of its weakness and uselessness ¹⁹ (for the Law made nothing perfect), and there is introduced a better Hope, by means of which we can draw near to God.

²² And this makes Jesus surety for a superior covenant.

²⁶ Such was the high priest for us, saintly, innocent, unstained, lifted high above the heavens, far from all contact with the sinful, ²⁷ one who has no need, like yonder high priests, day by day to offer sacrifices first for their own sins and then for those of the People — he did that once for all in offering up himself.

²⁷ one who has no need, like yonder high priests, day by day to offer sacrifices first for their own sins and then for those of the People — he did that once for all in offering up himself. ²⁸ For the Law appoints human beings in their weakness to the priesthood; but the word of the Oath appoints a Son who is made perfect for ever.

⁶ As it is, however, the divine service he has obtained is superior, owing to the fact that he mediates a superior covenant, enacted with superior promises. ⁷ For if the first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion for a second. ⁸ Whereas God does find fault with the people of that covenant, when he says: The day is coming, saith the Lord, when I will conclude a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. It will not be on the lines of the covenant I made with their fathers, ⁹ on the day I took them by the hand to lead out of Egypt's land; for they would not hold to my covenant, so I let them alone, saith the Lord. ¹⁰ This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel when that day comes, saith the Lord; I will set my laws within their mind, inscribing them upon their hearts; I will be a God to them, and they shall be a People to me; ¹¹ one citizen will no longer teach his fellow, one man will no longer teach his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' for all will know me, low and high together. ¹² I will be merciful to their iniquities, and remember their sins no more. ¹³ By saying 'a new covenant,' he antiquates the first. And whatever is antiquated and aged is on the verge of vanishing.

⁸ By this the holy Spirit means that the way into the Holiest Presence was not disclosed so long as the first tent ⁹ (which foreshadowed the present age) was still standing, with its offerings of gifts and sacrifices which cannot possibly make the conscience of the worshipper perfect,

⁹ (which foreshadowed the present age) was still standing, with its offerings of gifts and sacrifices which cannot possibly make the conscience of the worshipper perfect,

⁹ (which foreshadowed the present age) was still standing, with its offerings of gifts and sacrifices which cannot possibly make the conscience of the worshipper perfect, ¹⁰ since they relate merely to food and drink and a variety of ablutions — outward regulations for the body, that only hold till the period of the New Order.

¹⁰ since they relate merely to food and drink and a variety of ablutions — outward regulations for the body, that only hold till the period of the New Order. ¹¹ But when Christ arrived as the high priest of the bliss that was to be, he passed through the greater and more perfect tent which no hands had made (no part, that is to say, of the present order), ¹² not taking any blood of goats and oxen but his own blood, and entered once for all into the Holy place. He secured an eternal redemption.

¹⁴ how much more shall the blood of Christ, who in the spirit of the eternal offered himself as an unblemished sacrifice to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve a living God? ¹⁵ He mediates a new covenant for this reason, that those who have been called may obtain the eternal inheritance they have been promised, now that a death has occurred which redeems them from the transgressions involved in the first covenant.

¹⁵ He mediates a new covenant for this reason, that those who have been called may obtain the eternal inheritance they have been promised, now that a death has occurred which redeems them from the transgressions involved in the first covenant. ¹⁶ Thus, in the case of a will, the death of the testator must be announced. ¹⁷ A will only holds in cases of death; it is never valid so long as the testator is alive. ¹⁸ Hence even the first covenant of God's will was not inaugurated apart from blood; ¹⁹ for after Moses had announced every command in the Law to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, together with water, scarlet wool and hyssop, sprinkling the book and all the people, ²⁰ and saying, This is the blood of that covenant which is God's command for you.

²³ Now, while the copies of the heavenly things had to be cleansed with sacrifices like these, the heavenly things themselves required nobler sacrifices. ²⁴ For Christ has not entered a holy place which human hands have made (a mere type of the reality!); he has entered heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf.

¹ For as the Law has a mere shadow of the bliss that is to be, instead of representing the reality of that bliss, it never can perfect those who draw near with the same annual sacrifices that are perpetually offered.

⁹ he then adds, Here I come to do thy will. He does away with the first in order to establish the second. ¹⁰ And it is by this will that we are consecrated, because Jesus Christ once for all has offered up his body. ¹¹ Again, while every priest stands daily at his service, offering the same sacrifices repeatedly, sacrifices which never can take sins away — ¹² He offered a single sacrifice for sins and then seated himself for all time at the right hand of God,

¹² He offered a single sacrifice for sins and then seated himself for all time at the right hand of God,

¹⁶ This is the covenant I will make with them when that day comes, saith the Lord, I will set my laws upon their hearts, inscribing them upon their minds, he adds, ¹⁷ And their sins and breaches of the law I will remember no more.

²¹ and since we have a great Priest over the house of God,

⁴ It was by faith that Abel offered God a richer sacrifice than Cain did, and thus won from God the record of being 'just,' on the score of what he gave; he died, but by his faith he is speaking to us still.

⁷ It was by faith that Noah, after being told by God what was still unseen, reverently constructed an ark to save his household; thus he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that follows faith.

¹⁰ he was waiting for the City with its fixed foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

¹⁶ but they really aspire to the better land in heaven. That is why God is not ashamed to be called their God; he has prepared a City for them.)

² our eyes fixed upon Jesus as the pioneer and the perfection of faith — upon Jesus who, in order to reach his own appointed joy, steadily endured the cross, thinking nothing of its shame, and is now seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

²⁴ to Jesus who mediates the new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood whose message is nobler than Abel's. ²⁵ See that you do not refuse to listen to His voice. For if they failed to escape, who refused to listen to their instructor upon earth, much less shall we escape, if we discard Him who speaks from heaven.

¹⁸ It was his own will that we should be born by the Word of the truth, to be a kind of firstfruits among his creatures.

²¹ so clear away all the foul rank growth of malice, and make a soil of modesty for the Word which roots itself inwardly with power to save your souls.

²³ You are born anew of immortal, not of mortal seed, by the living, lasting word of God;

⁹ But you are the elect race, the royal priesthood, the consecrated nation, the People who belong to Him, that you may proclaim the wondrous deeds of Him who has called you from darkness to his wonderful light —

⁴ bestowing on us thereby promises precious and supreme, that by means of them you may escape the corruption produced within the world by lust, and participate in the divine nature —

⁷ but if we live and move within the light, as he is within the light, then we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from every sin. ⁸ If we say, 'We are not guilty,' we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us; ⁹ if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just, he forgives our sins and cleanses us from all iniquity;

¹ My dear children, I am writing this to you that you may not sin; but if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father in Jesus Christ the just; ² he is himself the propitiation for our sins, though not for ours alone but also for the whole world.

²⁷ but the unction you received from him remains within you, and you really need no teaching from anyone; simply remain in him, for his unction teaches you about everything and is true and is no lie — remain in him, as it has taught you to do.

²⁰ We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us insight to know Him who is the Real God; and we are in Him who is real, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the real God, this is life eternal.

⁵ and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the first-born from the dead, and the prince over the kings of earth; to him who loves us and has loosed us from our sins by shedding his blood —

²¹ 'The conqueror I will allow to sit beside me on my throne, as I myself have conquered and sat down beside my Father on his throne.'