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

Behold, the days come, saith the Lord,

When I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:

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

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

Because they continued not in my covenant,

And I regarded them not, saith the Lord.

¹⁰For 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 write them in their hearts:

And I will be to them a God,

And they shall be to me a people:

¹¹And they shall not teach every man his neighbour,

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

For all shall know me,

From the least to the greatest.

¹²For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness,

And their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.

¹³In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.

King James Version 1611 (Authorized Version). Copyright status: UK English with BFBS additions © 2011 British and Foreign Bible Society; Crown Copyright in UK