Hebrews:9:11-28

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* But Christ being come high priest of the good things to come , by the better and more perfect tabernacle not made with hand , (that is , not of this creation ,) * nor by blood of goats and calves , but by his own blood , has entered in once for all into the [holy of ] holies , having found an eternal redemption . * For if the blood of goats and bulls , and a heifer 's ashes sprinkling the defiled , sanctifies for the purity of the flesh , * how much rather shall the blood of the Christ , who by the eternal Spirit offered himself spotless to God , purify your conscience from dead works to worship [the ] living God ? * And for this reason he is mediator of a new covenant , so that , death having taken place for redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant , the called might receive the promise of the eternal inheritance . * (For where [there is ] a testament , the death of the testator must needs come in . * For a testament [is ] of force when men are dead , since it is in no way of force while the testator is alive .) * Whence neither the first was inaugurated without blood . * For every commandment having been spoken according to [the ] law by Moses to all the people ; having taken the blood of calves and goats , with water and scarlet wool and hyssop , he sprinkled both the book itself and all the people , * saying , This [is ] the blood of the covenant which God has enjoined to you . * And the tabernacle too and all the vessels of service he sprinkled in like manner with blood ; * and almost all things are purified with blood according to the law , and without blood-shedding there is no remission . * [It was ] necessary then that the figurative representations of the things in the heavens should be purified with these ; but the heavenly things themselves with sacrifices better than these . * For the Christ is not entered into holy places made with hand , figures of the true , but into heaven itself , now to appear before the face of God for us : * nor in order that he should offer himself often , as the high priest enters into the holy places every year with blood not his own ; * since he had [then ] been obliged often to suffer from the foundation of the world . But now once in the consummation of the ages he has been manifested for [the ] putting away of sin by his sacrifice . * And forasmuch as it is the portion of men once to die , and after this judgment ; * thus the Christ also , having been once offered to bear the sins of many , shall appear to those that look for him the second time without sin for salvation .

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