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This was a symbol for the time then present, when gifts and sacrifices were offered that could not perfect the conscience of the worshiper.

They served only for matters of food and drink and various washings; they are external regulations imposed until the new order came.

and he entered once for all into the most holy place not by the blood of goats and calves but by his own blood, and so he himself secured eternal redemption.

For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a young cow sprinkled on those who are defiled consecrated them and provided ritual purity,

For where there is a will, the death of the one who made it must be proven.

For a will takes effect only at death, since it carries no force while the one who made it is alive.

For when Moses had spoken every command to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and goats with water and scarlet wool and hyssop and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,

So it was necessary for the sketches of the things in heaven to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves required better sacrifices than these.

For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made with hands—the representation of the true sanctuary—but into heaven itself, and he appears now in God's presence for us.

for then he would have had to suffer again and again since the foundation of the world. But now he has appeared once for all at the consummation of the ages to put away sin by his sacrifice.

For the law possesses a shadow of the good things to come but not the reality itself, and is therefore completely unable, by the same sacrifices offered continually, year after year, to perfect those who come to worship.

For otherwise would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers would have been purified once for all and so have no further consciousness of sin?

For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

So when he came into the world, he said, " Sacrifice and offering you did not desire , but a body you prepared for me .

By his will we have been made holy through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

But when this priest had offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, he sat down at the right hand of God,

where he is now waiting until his enemies are made a footstool for his feet.

For by one offering he has perfected for all time those who are made holy.

And the Holy Spirit also witnesses to us, for after saying,

Now where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin.