For the word of God [is] living and active and sharper than any double-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, both joints and marrow, and able to judge the reflections and thoughts of the heart.

Now without any dispute the inferior is blessed by the more prominent.

For I will be merciful toward their wrongdoings, and I will not remember their sins [any] longer."

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?