Seeing therefore the children have received a fellowship of blood and flesh, he also, in like manner, took partnership in the same, - in order that, through death, - he might paralyse him that held the dominion of death, that is, the Adversary, -

But, into the second, once for all in the year, only the high-priest, not without blood, which he offered for himself and the ignorances of the people:

Nor yet through blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood he entered once for all into the Holy place, age-abiding redemption discovering.

For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling the profaned, halloweth unto the purity of the flesh,

How much rather shall the blood of the Christ, who through an age-abiding spirit offered himself unspotted unto God, purify our conscience from dead works, to the rendering of divine-service, unto a Living God?

Whence, not even the first, apart from blood, hath been consecrated;

For, when every commandment according to the law had been spoken by Moses unto all the people, taking the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, both, the scroll itself, and all the people, he sprinkled;

Saying - This, is the blood of the covenant which, God, hath sent in command unto you:

Yea, the tent also, and all the utensils of the public ministry, with blood, in like manner, he sprinkled:

And, nearly, all things, with blood, are purified, according to the law, and, apart from blood-shedding, cometh no remission.

Nor yet that, ofttimes, he should be offering himself, - just as the high-priest entereth into the Holy place, year by year, with alien blood; -

For it is impossible for blood of bulls and goats to be taking away sins.

Having therefore, brethren, freedom of speech for the entrance through the Holy place, by the blood of Jesus,

Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be accounted worthy, who hath trampled underfoot the Son of God, and, the blood of the covenant, hath esteemed, a profane thing, by which he had been made holy, and, unto the Spirit of favour, hath offered wanton insult?

By faith, he hath kept the passover and the besmearing of the blood, lest, he that was destroying the first-born, should be touching them.

Not yet unto blood, have ye resisted, against sin, waging a contest;

And unto the mediator of a new covenant, Jesus, - and unto the blood of sprinkling, more excellently speaking, than, Abel.

For, in the case of those living creatures, whose blood for sins is carried into the holy place, through means of the high-priest, the bodies of these, are burned up, outside the camp.

Wherefore, Jesus also, that he might hallow the people through means of his own blood, outside the gate, suffered:

But, the God of peace, He that led up from among the dead the great Shepherd of the sheep, with the blood of an age-abiding covenant, - our Lord Jesus,