Hebrews 8:6 Cross References - Thomson

⁶ Now then He hath more noble services allotted to him, in as much as he is the mediator of a better covenant, which is established on better promises.

²⁰ And in like manner also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new covenant by my blood, which is shed for you.

⁴ who are Israelites, to whom belonged the adoption and the glory, and the covenants, and the civil government, and the religious service, and the promises;

⁶ who hath qualified us to be ministers of a new covenant; not of letter but of spirit; for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. ⁷ [Now if the ministration of death engraven in letters, on stones, was attended with such glory, that the children of Israel could not look steadily on the face of Moses, because of the temporary glory of his countenance; ⁸ shall not the ministration of the spirit be much more attended with glory? ⁹ For if that ministration of condemnation was attended with glory, much more doth this ministration of justification abound in glory. ¹⁰ For that indeed which was glorious, is in this respect not glorious because of this super-excellent glory. ¹¹ For if that which was temporary was with glory, much more shall this which is permanent be attended with glory.

¹⁶ and the promises were made to Abraham and the seed of him [it is not said "and to the seeds" as if it was a covenant for many, but as if for one, and to the seed of thee; namely Christ] ¹⁷ now this I say that the law which was four hundred and thirty years after, doth not disannul a covenant ratified by God for Christ, so as to put a stop to the promise. ¹⁸ For if the inheritance be by law, it is no longer by promise; but God granted it freely by promise. ¹⁹ To what purpose then was the law? [b] On the account of transgressions it was superadded until the seed should come, to whom the promise was made; and it was introduced through angels by the hand of a mediator; ²⁰ but this mediator was not of one party. [a] But God is one party; ²¹ is then the law against the promises of God? [b] No by no means; for if a law had been given which could have put into a state of life, righteousness would assuredly have been by law.

² in hope of an everlasting life, which the God of truth promised before the times consisting of ages,

²² by so much Jesus is made the surety of a better covenant.

⁷ For if the first covenant had been faultless there would have been no occasion for a second ⁸ for finding fault with them he saith, "Behold days are coming, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and the house of Judah. ⁹ not such a covenant as I made with their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt; because they did not abide by that covenant of mine, therefore I took no care of them, saith the Lord. ¹⁰ This is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel, After these days, saith the Lord, adapting my laws to their understanding I will write them on their hearts: and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. ¹¹ And they shall no more teach, every one his neighbour, and every one his brother, saying, Know the Lord; for all shall know me from the least to the greatest of them; ¹² for I will be merciful to their iniquities, and no more remember their sins and their transgressions." ¹³ By calling this a new covenant he hath antiquated the first. Now that which is antiquated, and grown old, is near being abolished.

¹⁵ Indeed on the account of this he is the mediator of a New Covenant, that [there having been death for a pardon of the transgressions under the first covenant they who have been called may receive the promise of the everlasting inheritance. ¹⁶ For where there is a covenant it necessarily infers the death of that by which it is established. ¹⁷ For a covenant is ratified over the dead, and it hath no validity at all while that by which it is established liveth. ¹⁸ Whence even the first covenant was not ratified without blood; ¹⁹ for when every precept according to law was rehearsed by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of the calves and goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and the Book, and he sprinkled it on all the people ²⁰ saying, This is the blood of the covenant which God hath enjoined on you.

²⁴ and to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling which speaketh better things than that of Abel.

⁴ through which he hath freely made us very great and precious promises, that by them you may become partakers of a divine nature when you have fled from the corruption which is in the world by lust;