6. But in fact the ministry Jesus has received is as superior to theirs as the covenant of which he is mediator is superior to the old one, since the new covenant is established on better promises.
7. For if there had been nothing wrong with that first covenant, no place would have been sought for another.
8. But God found fault with the people and said :"The days are coming, declares the Lord,when I will make a new covenantwith the people of Israeland with the people of Judah.
9. It will not be like the covenantI made with their ancestorswhen I took them by the handto lead them out of Egypt,because they did not remain faithful to my covenant,and I turned away from them,declares the Lord.
10. This is the covenant I will establish with the people of Israelafter that time, declares the Lord.I will put my laws in their mindsand write them on their hearts.I will be their God,and they will be my people.
11. No longer will they teach their neighbor,or say to one another, 'Know the Lord,'because they will all know me,from the least of them to the greatest.
12. For I will forgive their wickednessand will remember their sins no more."
13. By calling this covenant "new," he has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and outdated will soon disappear.