Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same nature, that through death he might destroy him who has the power of death, that is, the devil,

For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.

But into the second only the high priest goes, and he but once a year, and not without taking blood, which he offers for himself and for the sins of the people committed in ignorance.

He did not enter by means of the blood of goats and calves, but he entered the holy place once for all by his own blood, 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 for the cleansing of the flesh,

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

This is why even the first covenant was not ratified without blood.

For when every commandment of the law had been declared by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of calves and 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."

And in the same way he sprinkled with the blood both the tabernacle and all the vessels used in worship.

Indeed, under the law almost everything is cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.

Nor was it that he should offer himself again and again, as the high priest enters the holy place year by year with blood not his own.

For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

Therefore, brethren, since we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus,

How much severer punishment do you think a man will deserve who has trampled under foot the Son of God, and has regarded as an unclean thing the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

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

In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.

and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks better than the blood 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 the camp.

And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate to sanctify the people through his own blood.

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