{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/akjv/hebrews/8","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-10T00:43:35.391Z"},"reference":{"translation":"AKJV","book":"Hebrews","bookSlug":"hebrews","chapter":8,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":7,"nextChapter":9,"totalChapters":13,"totalVerses":13},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"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;"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: why it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law:"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Who serve to the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, said he, that you make all things according to the pattern showed to you in the mount."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"But now has he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established on better promises."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"For finding fault with them, he said, Behold, the days come, said the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"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, said the Lord."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, said 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:"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"And they shall not teach every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"In that he said, A new covenant, he has made the first old. Now that which decays and waxes old is ready to vanish away."}],"citation":{"inline":"Hebrews 8 (AKJV)","markdown":"[Hebrews 8](https://primebible.com/akjv/hebrews/8)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* AKJV. https://primebible.com/akjv/hebrews/8 (accessed 2026-06-10)."}}