- But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
- For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.
- For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
- 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, saith the Lord.
- For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith 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:
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- 如今耶穌所得的職任是更美的、正如他作更美之約的中保.這約原是憑更美之應許立的。
- 那前約若沒有瑕疪、就無處尋求後約了。
- 所以主指著他的百姓說、〔或作所以主指前約的缺欠說〕『日子將到、我要與以色列家、和猶大家、另立新約.
- 不像我拉著他們祖宗的手、領他們出埃及的時候、與他們所立的約.因為他們不恆心守我的約、我也不理他們.這是主說的。』
- 主又說、『那些日子以後、我與以色列家所立的約乃是這樣.我要將我的律法放在他們裡面、寫在他們心上、我要作他們的 神、他們要作我的子民.
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