For if that first [covenant] had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second.

not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers, in the day when I took their hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt. Because they did not persevere in My covenant, and I disregarded them, says the LORD.

And by no means will they teach each [one] his fellow citizen, and each [one] his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,' for all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them.

By the saying "new," He has made the first obsolete. And the [one] becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish.

who also has made us efficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of [the] letter but of [the] Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit makes alive.

how will the ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious?

For even that which has been glorified has not been glorified in this respect, because of the surpassing glory.

by so much more Jesus has become a surety of a better covenant.

and to Jesus, the Mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling which speaks better things than the [blood] of Abel.

Why then the law? It was added on account of transgressions, until the Seed should come to whom it had been promised; and it was commanded through angels by the hand of a mediator.

Now the mediator is not for one person, but God is one.

by so much more Jesus has become a surety of a better covenant.

And on account of this He is the Mediator of the new covenant, so that, since a death has occurred for redemption of the transgressions at the time of the first covenant, that those having been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

For a testament is valid over dead [people], since it is never valid when the [one] making the testament lives.

For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses according to law to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water, scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,

For this is the covenant which I shall covenant with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put My laws in their mind, and I shall inscribe them upon their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I shall by no means remember anymore."

who are Israelites, of whom are the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the law-giving, and the worship, and the promises;

Now to Abraham and his Seed were the promises spoken. He does not say, "And to seeds," as of many, but as of one, "And to your Seed," who is Christ.

For if the inheritance [comes] by the law, it is no longer of promise; but God has given it to Abraham by promise.

Now the mediator is not for one person, but God is one.

in hope of eternal life which God, who cannot lie, promised before time [itself],

through which have been given to us precious and exceedingly great promises, so that through these we may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.