Hebrews 9:11-28 - The Heavenly Ministry Of The New Covenant

¹¹ But Christ becoming the high-priest of future good things, through a better and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is, not of this creation; ¹² nor by the blood of goats and of calves, but by his own blood, he entered once for all into the holies, having obtained eternal redemption. ¹³ For if the blood of bulls, and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the defiled sanctifieth to corporal purification, ¹⁴ how much more shall the blood of Christ, who, by the eternal Spirit, offered up himself in sacrifice without blemish to God, cleanse our conscience from dead works, that we may perform divine service to the living God?

¹⁵ And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that, death being suffered for the redemption of transgressions committed against the first testament, they who are called might receive the promise of an eternal inheritance. ¹⁶ For where a testament is, of necessity the death of the testator is implied. ¹⁷ For a testament is valid when men are dead; for else it is of no efficacy whilst the testator is alive. ¹⁸ Wherefore also that first testament was not consecrated without blood. ¹⁹ For when every command according to the law had been spoken by Moses to all the people, taking the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, he sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, ²⁰ saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you. ²¹ And the tabernacle also, and all the vessels employed in the divine service, he in like manner sprinkled with blood. ²² And almost all things are purified by blood according to the law, and without effusion of blood there is no remission of sin.

²³ There was a necessity therefore that the representations of the things in heaven should be purified by these; but the celestial things themselves with better sacrifices than these. ²⁴ For Christ is not entered into the holies made with hands, the antitypes of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear before the presence of God for us: ²⁵ and not that he should often offer up himself in sacrifice, as the high-priest enters every year into the holies with blood not his own, ²⁶ (for in that case he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world:) but now once for all at the consummation of the ages hath he been manifested for the abolishing sin by the sacrifice of himself. ²⁷ And forasmuch as it is appointed to men once to die, but after this the judgment, ²⁸ so Christ having been once offered in sacrifice to bear the sins of men, will appear the second time without sin, to those who expect him, for their salvation.