13By calling this covenant "new," he has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear.


In Context

10 This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time, declares the Lord. I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

11 No longer will a man teach his neighbor, or a man his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest.

12 For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more."

13 By calling this covenant "new," he has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear.

Hebrews 8:13 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:13In that he saith, A new [covenant,] he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old [is] ready to vanish away.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

8:13Now in saying a new, he hath made the former old. And that which decayeth and groweth old, is near its end.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

8:13In that he saith, A new covenant he hath made the first old. But that which is becoming old and waxeth aged is nigh unto vanishing away.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:13In that he says New, he has made the first old; but that which grows old and aged is near disappearing.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

8:13In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. But that which is becoming old and waxeth aged is nigh unto vanishing away.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:13In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and groweth old is ready to vanish away.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:13In that he says, |A new covenant,| he has made the first old. But that which is becoming old and grows aged is near to vanishing away.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

8:13in the saying 'new,' He hath made the first old, and what doth become obsolete and is old is nigh disappearing.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:13In that he said, A new covenant, he has made the first old. Now that which decays and waxes old is ready to vanish away.