Heb 8:7-13

Old and New Covenants.^* 7For if that first covenant had been faultless, no place would have been sought for a second one. 8But he finds fault with them and says:^*

“Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord,^g

when I will conclude a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah.

9It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers

the day I took them by the hand to lead them forth from the land of Egypt;

for they did not stand by my covenant

and I ignored them, says the Lord.

10But this is the covenant I will establish with the house of Israel

after those days, says the Lord:

I will put my laws in their minds

and I will write them upon their hearts.

I will be their God,

and they shall be my people.^h

11And they shall not teach, each one his fellow citizen

and kinsman, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’

for all shall know me,

from least to greatest.

12For I will forgive their evildoing

and remember their sins no more.”

13^{* i} When he speaks of a “new” covenant, he declares the first one obsolete. And what has become obsolete and has grown old is close to disappearing.