| New King James Version | International Standard Version |
| 1Now this is the main point of the things we are saying: We have such a High Priest, who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, | 1Now the main point in what we are saying is this: we do have this kind of high priest, who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven |
| 2a Minister of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle which the Lord erected, and not man. | 2and who serves in the sanctuary, the true tent set up by the Lord and not by any human. |
| 3For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices. Therefore it is necessary that this One also have something to offer. | 3For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices. Therefore, this high priest had to offer something, too. |
| 4For if He were on earth, He would not be a priest, since there are priests who offer the gifts according to the law; | 4Now if he were on earth, he would not even be a priest, because other men offer the gifts prescribed by the Law. |
| 5who serve the copy and shadow of the heavenly things, as Moses was divinely instructed when he was about to make the tabernacle. For He said, “See that you make all things according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.” | 5They serve in a sanctuary that is a copy, a shadow of the heavenly one. This is why Moses was warned when he was about to build the tent: "See to it that you make everything according to the pattern that was shown you on the mountain." |
| 6But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, inasmuch as He is also Mediator of a better covenant, which was established on better promises. | 6However, Jesus has now obtained a more superior ministry, since the covenant he mediates is founded on better promises. |
| 7For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second. | 7If the first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no need to look for a second one, |
| 8Because finding fault with them, He says: “Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah — | 8but God found something wrong with his people when he said, "Look! The days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. |
| 9not 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 did not continue in My covenant, and I disregarded them, says the LORD. | 9It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors at the time when I took them by the hand and brought them out of the land of Egypt. Because they did not remain loyal to my covenant, I ignored them, declares the Lord. |
| 10For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. | 10For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after that time, declares the Lord: I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. |
| 11None of them shall teach his neighbor, and none his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ for all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them. | 11Never again will everyone teach his neighbor or his brother by saying, 'Know the Lord,' because all of them will know me, from the least important to the most important. |
| 12For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.” | 12For I will be merciful regarding their wrong deeds, and I will never again remember their sins." |
| 13In that He says, “ A new covenant,” He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away. | 13In speaking of a "new" covenant, he has made the first one obsolete, and what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear. |
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