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

¹¹ But when Christ had become a high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building ¹² nor by the blood of goats and calves, but by His own blood He entered once for all into the Holies, having obtained eternal redemption for us. ¹³ For if the blood of bulls and of goats and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling the unclean sanctifies to the purifying of the flesh, ¹⁴ how much more shall the blood of Christ (who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God) purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

¹⁵ And for this cause He is the Mediator of the new covenant, so that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, those who are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. ¹⁶ For where a covenant is, the death of him covenanting must be offered. ¹⁷ For a covenant is affirmed over those dead, since it never has force when The one covenanting is living. ¹⁸ From which we see that neither was the first covenant dedicated without blood. ¹⁹ For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the Law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people, ²⁰ saying, "This is the blood of the covenant which God has enjoined to you." ²¹ And likewise he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry. ²² And almost all things are by the law purged with blood, and without shedding of blood is no remission.

²³ Therefore it was necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves were purified with better sacrifices than these. ²⁴ For Christ has not entered into the Holy of Holies made with hands, which are the figures of the true, but into Heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us. ²⁵ Nor yet that He should offer Himself often, even as the high priest enters into the Holy of Holies every year with the blood of others ²⁶ (for then He must have suffered often since the foundation of the world), but now once in the end of the world He has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. ²⁷ And as it is appointed to men once to die, but after this the judgment, ²⁸ so Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many. And to those who look for Him He shall appear the second time without sin to salvation.