Jesus Our High Priest
1Here is the point of what we are saying: We have a high priest
2Our high priest serves in the Most Holy Place.
3Every high priest
4If our high priest were now living on earth, then he would not be a priest. I say this because there are already priests here who follow the law by offering gifts to God.
5The work that these priests do is really only a copy and a shadow of the things that are in heaven. That is why God warned Moses
6But the work that has been given to Jesus is much greater than the work that was given to those priests. In the same way, the new agreement
7If there was nothing wrong with the first agreement,
8But God found something wrong with the people. God said: “ The time is coming, says the Lord, when I will give a new agreement to the people of Israel
9It will not be like the agreement that I gave to their fathers. That is the agreement I gave when I took them by the hand and led them out of Egypt. They did not continue following the agreement I gave them, and I turned away from them, says the Lord.
10This is the new agreement I will give the people of Israel.
11Never again will a person have to teach his brother or God’s other people. He will not need to tell them to know the Lord. Why? Because all people—the greatest people and the least important people— will know me.
12And I will forgive the wrong things they do against me, and I will not remember their sins.” Jeremiah 31:31–34
13God called this a new agreement,