1 Now of the things we are saying this is the chief point: We have such a high priest, who has taken his place at the right hand of God's high seat of glory in heaven,2 As a servant of the holy things and of the true Tent, which was put up by God, not by man.3 Now every high priest is given authority to take to God the things which are given and to make offerings; so that it is necessary for this man, like them, to have something for an offering.4 If he had been on earth he would not have been a priest at all, because there are other priests who make the offerings ordered by the law;5 Being servants of that which is a copy and an image of the things in heaven, as Moses, when he was about to make the Tent, had special orders from God: for, See, he said, that you make everything like the design which you saw in the mountain.6 But now his position as priest is higher. because through him God has made a better agreement with man, based on the giving of better things.7 For if that first agreement had been as good as possible, there would have been no place for a second.8 For, protesting against them, he says, See, the days are coming when I will make a new agreement with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah;9 Not like the agreement which I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand, to be their guide out of the land of Egypt; for they did not keep the agreement with me, and I gave them up, says the Lord.10 For this is the agreement which I will make with the people of Israel after those days: I will put my laws into their minds, writing them in their hearts: and I will be their God, and they will be my people:11 And there will be no need for every man to be teaching his brother, or his neighbour, saying, This is the knowledge of the Lord: for they will all have knowledge of me, great and small.12 And I will have mercy on their evil-doing, and I will not keep their sins in mind.13 When he says, A new agreement, he has made the first agreement old. But anything which is getting old and past use will not be seen much longer.

1 我们所讲论的重点， 就是我们有这样的一位大祭司， 他已经坐在众天之上至尊者的宝座右边， 2 在至圣所和真会幕里供职； 这真会幕是主支搭的， 不是人支搭的。 3 所有大祭司都是为了献礼物和祭品而设立的， 所以这位大祭司， 也必须有所献上的。 4 如果他在地上， 就不会作祭司， 因为已经有按照律法献礼物的祭司了。 5 这些祭司所供奉的职事， 不过是天上的事物的副本和影像， 就如摩西将要造会幕的时候， 神曾经警告他说： "你要留心， 各样物件， 都要照着在山上指示你的样式去作。" 6 但是现在耶稣得了更尊贵的职分， 正好像他是更美的约的中保， 这约是凭着更美的应许立的。 7 如果头一个约没有缺点， 就没有寻求另一个约的必要了。 8 可是 神指责他们， 说： "看哪， 主说， 日子要到了， 我要与以色列家和犹大家订立新约。 9 这新约不像从前我拉他们祖先的手， 领他们出埃及的日子与他们所立的约。因为他们没有遵守我的约， 我就不理会他们。这是主说的。 10 主说： ‘因为在那些日子以后， 我要与以色列家所立的约是这样： 我要把我的律法放在他们的心思里面， 写在他们的心上。我要作他们的 神， 他们要作我的子民。 11 他们各人必不用教导自己的邻居， 和自己的同胞， 说： 你要认识主。因为所有的人， 从最小到最大的， 都必认识我。 12 我也要宽恕他们的不义， 决不再记着他们的罪恶。’" 13 神既然说到新的约， 就是把前约当作旧的了； 那变成陈旧衰老的， 就快要消逝了。