Messianic
Hebrews 8:8-12
Jeremiah (applied by Hebrews) · ~600 BC / 65 AD · Status: Fulfilled · Confidence: 65%
“For 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:”
King James Version · the opening — all 5 verses are below
Hebrews quoting Jeremiah 31's New Covenant as making the Old obsolete, established in Christ's blood.
Read the whole passage — all 5 verses (KJV)
8:8For 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:
8:9Not 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.
8:10For 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:
8:11And 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.
8:12For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
Fulfillment References
Jeremiah 31:31-34 Matthew 26:28 Luke 22:20
How Traditions Read This Prophecy
Apostolic (Oneness) PentecostalHebrews quotes Jeremiah 31's new covenant — God's law written on the heart, sins remembered no more — and declares it inaugurated in Christ (the blood of the new testament, Matt. 26:28). The one God who gave the old covenant gives the new, and gives it in the Lord Jesus; the promised forgiveness and indwelling are entered through Him (Acts 2:38).
JewishJeremiah 31:31-34 promises a new covenant with Israel and Judah — internalized Torah and full forgiveness; Judaism awaits its consummation, not in Jesus.
CatholicThe new covenant in Christ's blood, fulfilling Jeremiah; the old covenant now obsolete (Heb. 8:13), realized in the Eucharist and the Church (cf. the Catechism).
ProtestantThe new covenant of grace, written on the heart, established by Christ's blood — the heart of Reformation covenant theology.
AcademicHebrews makes the longest OT quotation in the NT (Jer. 31:31-34) the linchpin of its argument for the old covenant's obsolescence.
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