Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in like manner partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,

For he has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who built the house has more honor than the house.

For every house is built by someone; but he who built all things is God.

but into the second the high priest alone, once in the year, not without blood, which he offers for himself, and for the errors of the people.

nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the Holy Place, having obtained eternal redemption.

For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled, sanctify to the cleanness of the flesh:

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, cleanse our conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

Therefore even the first covenant has not been dedicated without blood.

For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the Law, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,

saying, "This is the blood of the covenant which God has commanded you."

Moreover he sprinkled the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry in like manner with the blood.

According to the Law, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.

nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest enters into the holy place year by year with blood not his own,

For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.

Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus,

How much worse punishment, do you think, will he be judged worthy of, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

By faith, he kept the Passover, and the sprinkling of the blood, that the destroyer of the firstborn should not touch them.

You have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood in your struggle against sin;

to Jesus, the mediator of a New Covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.

For the bodies of those animals, whose blood is brought into the holy place by the high priest as an offering for sin, are burned outside of the camp.

Therefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people through his own blood, suffered outside of the gate.

Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,