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which [is] a figure for the time present; according to which are offered both gifts and sacrifices that can't, as concerning the conscience, make the worshiper perfect,

nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption.

For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those that have been defiled, sanctify to the cleanness of the flesh:

And for this cause he is the mediator of a new covenant, that a death having taken place for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, those that have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

For where a testament is, there must of necessity be the death of him that made it.

For a testament is of force where there has been death: for it does never avail while he that made it lives.

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

For Christ didn't enter into a holy place made with hands, like in pattern to the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear before the face of God for us:

so Christ also, having been once offered to bear the sins of many, shall appear a second time, apart from sin, to those that wait for him, to salvation.

For the law having a shadow of the good [things] to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those that draw near.

For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.

Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, Sacrifice and offering you did not want, But a body did you prepare for me;

In whole burnt offerings and [sacrifices] for sin you had no pleasure:

Saying above, Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and [sacrifices] for sin you would not, neither had pleasure therein (which are offered according to the law),

By whose will, we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

but he, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God;

For by one offering he has perfected forever those that are sanctified.

And the Holy Spirit also bears witness to us; for after he has said,

Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.

by the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;