Jan 21, 2024
Hebrews 8:7-13
For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have
been no occasion to look for a second.
8 For He finds fault with them when He says: “Behold,
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,
9 not like the covenant that I made with their fathers
on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the
land of Egypt. For they did not continue in My covenant, and so I
showed no concern for them, declares the Lord. 10 For
this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel
after those days, declares the Lord: I will put My laws into their
minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and
they shall be My people. 11 And they shall not teach,
each one his neighbor and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know the
Lord,’ for they shall all know Me, from the least of them to the
greatest. 12 For I will be merciful toward their
iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more.”
In speaking of a new covenant, He makes the first one obsolete. And
what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish
away.
Key Words: Covenant, Fault, Old, New, Mercy
Keystone Verse: For I will be merciful toward
their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more. (Hebrews
8:12)