6 Agora, com efeito, obteve Jesus ministério tanto mais excelente, quanto é ele também Mediador de superior aliança instituída com base em superiores promessas. 7 Porque, se aquela primeira aliança tivesse sido sem defeito, de maneira alguma estaria sendo buscado lugar para uma segunda. 8 E, de fato, repreendendo-os, diz:

Eis aí vêm dias, diz o Senhor, e firmarei nova aliança com a casa de Israel e com a casa de Judá,

9 não segundo a aliança que fiz com seus pais, no dia em que os tomei pela mão, para os conduzir até fora da terra do Egito; pois eles não continuaram na minha aliança, e eu não atentei para eles, diz o Senhor.

10 Porque esta é a aliança que firmarei com a casa de Israel, depois daqueles dias, diz o Senhor: na sua mente imprimirei as minhas leis, também sobre o seu coração as inscreverei; e eu serei o seu Deus, e eles serão o meu povo.

11 E não ensinará jamais cada um ao seu próximo, nem cada um ao seu irmão, dizendo: Conhece ao Senhor; porque todos me conhecerão, desde o menor deles até ao maior.

12 Pois, para com as suas iniquidades, usarei de misericórdia e dos seus pecados jamais me lembrarei.

13 Quando ele diz Nova, torna antiquada a primeira. Ora, aquilo que se torna antiquado e envelhecido está prestes a desaparecer.

6 But now hath he obtained a ministry the more excellent, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which hath been enacted upon better promises. 7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then would no place have been sought for a second. 8 For finding fault with them, he saith,

Behold, the days come, saith the Lord,

That I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah;

9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers

In the day that I took them by the hand to lead them forth out of the land of Egypt;

For they continued not in my covenant,

And I regarded them not, saith the Lord.

10 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 on their heart also will I write them:

And I will be to them a God,

And they shall be to me a people:

11 And they shall not teach every man his fellow-citizen,

And every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord:

For all shall know me,

From the least to the greatest of them.

12 For I will be merciful to their iniquities,

And their sins will I remember no more.

13 In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. But that which is becoming old and waxeth aged is nigh unto vanishing away.

6 But in fact the ministry Jesus has received is as superior to theirs as the covenant of which he is mediator is superior to the old one, since the new covenant is established on better promises.

7 For if there had been nothing wrong with that first covenant, no place would have been sought for another.

8 But God found fault with the people and said ": "The days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah.

9 It will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they did not remain faithful to my covenant, and I turned away from them, declares the Lord.

10 This is the covenant I will establish with the people 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.

11 No longer will they teach their neighbor, or say to one another, 'Know the Lord,' because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest.

12 For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more." [3]

13 By calling this covenant "new," he has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and outdated will soon disappear.