Hebrews 9:23-Hebrews 10:18 - Christ's Death Takes Away Sins

²³ 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. ²⁴ 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: ²⁵ 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; ²⁶ 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. ²⁷ And forasmuch as it is the portion of men once to die, and after this judgment; ²⁸ 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.

¹ For the law, having a shadow of the coming good things, not the image itself of the things, can never, by the same sacrifices which they offer continually yearly, perfect those who approach. ² Since, would they not indeed have ceased being offered, on account of the worshippers once purged having no longer any conscience of sins? ³ But in these there is a calling to mind of sins yearly. ⁴ For blood of bulls and goats is incapable of taking away sins.

⁵ Wherefore coming into the world he says, Sacrifice and offering thou willedst not; but thou hast prepared me a body. ⁶ Thou tookest no pleasure in burnt-offerings and sacrifices for sin. ⁷ Then I said, Lo, I come (in the roll of the book it is written of me) to do, O God, thy will.

⁸ Above, saying Sacrifices and offerings and burnt-offerings and sacrifices for sin thou willedst not, neither tookest pleasure in (which are offered according to the law); ⁹ then he said, Lo, I come to do thy will. He takes away the first that he may establish the second; ¹⁰ by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

¹¹ And every priest stands daily ministering, and offering often the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. ¹² But he, having offered one sacrifice for sins, sat down in perpetuity at the right hand of God, ¹³ waiting from henceforth until his enemies be set for the footstool of his feet. ¹⁴ For by one offering he has perfected in perpetuity the sanctified. ¹⁵ And the Holy Spirit also bears us witness of it; for after what was said:

¹⁶ This is the covenant which I will establish towards them after those days, saith the Lord: Giving my laws into their hearts, I will write them also in their understandings;

¹⁷ and their sins and their lawlessnesses I will never remember any more.

¹⁸ But where there is remission of these, there is no longer a sacrifice for sin.