Now since the children have flesh and blood in common, Jesus also shared in these, so that through His death He might destroy the one holding the power of death—that is, the Devil—

Now every house is built by someone, but the One who built everything is God.

But the high priest alone enters the second room, and he does that only once a year, and never without blood, which he offers for himself and for the sins of the people committed in ignorance.

He entered the most holy place once for all, not by the blood of goats and calves, but by His own blood, having obtained eternal redemption.

For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a young cow, sprinkling those who are defiled, sanctify for the purification of the flesh,

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

That is why even the first covenant was inaugurated with blood.

For when every command had been proclaimed by Moses to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and goats, along with water, scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled the scroll itself and all the people,

saying, This is the blood of the covenant that God has commanded for you.

In the same way, he sprinkled the tabernacle and all the articles of worship with blood.

According to the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.

He did not do this to offer Himself many times, as the high priest enters the sanctuary yearly with the blood of another.

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

Therefore, brothers, since we have boldness to enter the sanctuary through the blood of Jesus,

How much worse punishment do you think one will deserve who has trampled on the Son of God, regarded as profane the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and insulted the Spirit of grace?

By faith Noah, after he was warned about what was not yet seen and motivated by godly fear, built an ark to deliver his family. By faith he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

By faith he instituted the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn might not touch the Israelites.

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

to Jesus (mediator of a new covenant), and to the sprinkled blood, which says better things than the blood of Abel.

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

Therefore Jesus also suffered outside the gate, so that He might sanctify the people by His own blood.

Now may the God of peace, who brought up from the dead our Lord Jesus—the great Shepherd of the sheep—with the blood of the everlasting covenant,