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And because of this, he is the mediator of a new covenant, in order that, because a death has taken place for the redemption of transgressions committed during the first covenant, those who are the called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

For where there is a will, it is a necessity for the death of the one who made the will to be established.

For a will is in force concerning those who are dead, since it is never in force when the one who made the will is alive.

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

saying, "This is the blood of the covenant that God has commanded for you."

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

For Christ did not enter into a sanctuary made by hands, a mere copy of the true one, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf,

since it would have been necessary for him to suffer many times from the foundation of the world, but now he has appeared once at the end of the ages for the removal of sin by the sacrifice of himself.

And just as it is destined for people to die once, and after this, judgment,

thus also Christ, having been offered once in order to bear the sins of many, will appear for the second time without reference to sin to those who eagerly await him for salvation.

For the law, possessing a shadow of the good things that are about to come, not the form of things itself, is never able year by year by means of the same sacrifices which they offer without interruption to make perfect those who draw near.

For otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, because the ones who worship, having been purified once and for all, would no longer have any consciousness of sins?

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

Therefore, when he came into the world, he said, "Sacrifice and offering you did not want, but a body you prepared for me;

you did not delight in whole burnt offerings and offerings for sins.

When he says above, "Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and offerings for sin you did not want, nor did you delight in," which are offered according to the law,

by which will we are made holy through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

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

from now on 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.