Hebrews 8:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁶ But Jesus has now obtained a more excellent ministry, and to that degree he is the mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted on the basis of better promises.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ But 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ But as it now is, He [Christ] has acquired a [priestly] ministry which is as much superior and more excellent [than the old] as the covenant (the agreement) of which He is the Mediator (the Arbiter, Agent) is superior and more excellent, [because] it is enacted and rests upon more important (sublimer, higher, and nobler) promises.

American Standard Version (1901)

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.

Common English Bible

⁶ But now, Jesus has received a superior priestly service just as he arranged a better covenant that is enacted with better promises.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ But now he has been granted a better ministry, so much so that he is also the Mediator of a better testament, which has been confirmed by better promises.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ But now he hath obtained a better ministry, by how much also he is a mediator of a better testament, which is established on better promises.

Hebrews 8:6 Cross References

Jeremiah 50:5

They shall ask the way to Zion, with faces turned toward it, and they shall come and join themselves to the Lord by an everlasting covenant that will never be forgotten.

Luke 22:20

And he did the same with the cup after supper, saying, “This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood.

Romans 9:4

They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises;

Ephesians 2:12

remember that you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

1 Timothy 2:5

For there is one God; there is also one mediator between God and humankind, Christ Jesus, himself human,

Titus 1:2

in the hope of eternal life that God, who never lies, promised before the ages began—

Hebrews 12:24

and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.

Hebrews 7:22

accordingly Jesus has also become the guarantor of a better covenant.

2 Peter 1:4

Thus he has given us, through these things, his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may escape from the corruption that is in the world because of lust and may become participants of the divine nature.