007:024 but He, because He continues for ever, has a priesthood which does not pass to any successor. 007:025 Hence too He is able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, seeing that He ever lives to plead for them. 007:026 Moreover we needed just such a High Priest as this-- holy, guileless, undefiled, far removed from sinful men and exalted above the heavens; 007:027 who, unlike other High Priests, is not under the necessity of offering up sacrifices day after day, first for His own sins, and afterwards for those of the people; for this latter thing He did once for all when He offered up Himself. 007:028 For the Law constitutes men High Priests--men with all their infirmity--but the utterance of the oath, which came later than the Law, constitutes High Priest a Son who has been made for ever perfect. 008:001 Now in connexion with what we have been saying the chief point is that we have a High Priest who has taken His seat at the right hand of the throne of God's Majesty in the heavens, 008:002 and ministers in the Holy place and in the true tabernacle which not man, but the Lord pitched. 008:003 Every High Priest, however, is appointed to offer both bloodless gifts and sacrifices. Therefore this High Priest also must have some offering to present. 008:004 If then He were still on earth, He would not be a priest at all, since here there are already those who present the offerings in obedience to the Law, 008:005 and serve a copy and type of the heavenly things, just as Moses was divinely instructed when about to build the tabernacle. For God said, "See that you make everything in imitation of the pattern shown you on the mountain." 008:006 But, as a matter of fact, the ministry which Christ has obtained is all the nobler a ministry, in that He is at the same time the negotiator of a sublimer covenant, based upon sublimer promises. 008:007 For if that first Covenant had been free from imperfection, there would have been no attempt to introduce another. 008:008 For, being dissatisfied with His people, God says, "`There are days coming,' says the Lord, `When I will establish with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah a new Covenant-- 008:009 a Covenant unlike the one which I made with their forefathers on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out from the land of Egypt; for they would not remain faithful to that.' `So I turned from them,' says the Lord. 008:010 `But this is the Covenant that I will covenant with the house of Israel after those days,' says the Lord: I will put My laws into their minds and will write them upon their hearts. And I will indeed be their God and they shall be My People.