Hebrews 8:8

God's Word

But God found something wrong with his people and said to them, “The days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new promise to Israel and Judah.

Cross References

Isaiah 55:3

Open your ears, and come to me! Listen so that you may live! I will make an everlasting promise  to you— the blessings I promised to David.

Jeremiah 23:5

“The days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will grow a righteous branch for David. He will be a king who will rule wisely. He will do what is fair and right in the land.

Jeremiah 23:7

“That is why the days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when people’s oaths will no longer be, ‘The Lord brought the people of Israel out of Egypt. As the Lord lives….’

Jeremiah 30:3

The days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will bring my people Israel and Judah back from captivity. I will bring them back to the land that I gave their ancestors, and they will take possession of it.”

Jeremiah 31:27

“The days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will plant the nations of Israel and Judah with people and animals.

Jeremiah 31:38

“The days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when the city will be rebuilt for me from the Tower of Hananel to Corner Gate.

Jeremiah 32:40

I will make an eternal promise  to them that I will never stop blessing them. I will make them fear me so that they will never turn away from me.

Ezekiel 37:26

I will promise them peace. This promise  will last forever. I will establish them, make them increase in number, and put my holy place among them permanently.

Matthew 26:28

This is my blood, the blood of the promise. It is poured out for many people so that sins are forgiven.

Mark 14:24

He said to them, “This is my blood, the blood of the promise. It is poured out for many people.

Luke 17:22

Jesus said to his disciples, “The time will come when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, but you will not see it.

Luke 22:20

When supper was over, he did the same with the cup. He said, “This cup that is poured out for you is the new promise  made with my blood.”

Luke 5:38

Rather, new wine is to be poured into fresh skins.

1 Corinthians 11:25

When supper was over, he did the same with the cup. He said, “This cup is the new promise  made with my blood. Every time you drink from it, do it to remember me.”

2 Corinthians 3:6

He has also qualified us to be ministers of a new promise, a spiritual promise, not a written one. Clearly, what was written brings death, but the Spirit brings life.

Deuteronomy 29:14

You aren’t the only people to receive this promise and its conditions.

Hebrews 12:24

You have come to Jesus, who brings the new promise  from God, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better message than Abel’s.

Hebrews 7:22

In this way Jesus has become the guarantee of a better promise.

Hebrews 8:13

God made this new promise and showed that the first promise was outdated. What is outdated and aging will soon disappear.

Hebrews 8:6

Jesus has been given a priestly work that is superior to the Levitical priests’ work. He also brings a better promise  from God that is based on better guarantees.

Hebrews 9:15

Because Christ offered himself to God, he is able to bring a new promise from God. Through his death he paid the price to set people free from the sins they committed under the first promise. He did this so that those who are called can be guaranteed an inheritance that will last forever.