We have this hope as an anchor for our lives, safe and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain.

A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.

They serve as a pattern and foreshadowing of [what has its true existence and reality in] the heavenly things (sanctuary). For when Moses was about to erect the tabernacle, he was warned by God, saying, “See that you make it all [exactly] according to the pattern which was shown to you on the mountain.”

Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary.

For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary.

But behind the second vail is the tabernacle, called the inner sanctuary,

the Holy Spirit showing this, that the way into the sanctuary is not made manifest while the first tabernacle yet has a standing,

But Christ having appeared, as a highpriest of the good things to come, passing through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is, not of this creation, entered once for all into the sanctuary,

not with blood of goats and bullocks, but with his own blood, entered once into the sanctuary having found eternal redemption.

It was therefore necessary that what was only a type of the heavenly sanctuary, should be purified by such sacrifices; but the heavenly sanctuary itself, by a more excellent sacrifice.

For Christ did not enter into a holy place made with hands, a mere copy of the true one, but [He entered] into heaven itself, now to appear in the very presence of God on our behalf;

nor did He [enter into the heavenly sanctuary to] offer Himself again and again, as the high priest enters the Holy Place every year with blood that is not his own.

Therefore, brothers, [since we] have confidence for the entrance into the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus,

by the way which he inaugurated for us--a new and living way, a way through the Sanctuary Curtain (that is, his human nature);

For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp.