which, as an anchor for our soul, we hold both sure and stedfast, and entering into the sanctuary within the vail,

a servant of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord set up, and not man.

and yet they officiate in a sanctuary that is a mere copy and shadow of the heavenly one, as Moses, when he was about to make the tent of worship, was warned, for, said He, "See to it that you make it all just like the pattern shown you on the mountain."

Now indeed even the first covenant had ordinances of divine service, and an earthly sanctuary.

For a tent was erected, with the lamp and the table and the presentation bread in the outer part, which was called the sanctuary.

And beyond the second curtain, in the part called the inner sanctuary,

In all this the holy Spirit was seeking to show that there was no free access to the sanctuary while the outer tent was still standing.

But when Christ came, as the high priest of the better system under which we live, he went once for all, through that greater, more perfect tent of worship not made by human hands nor a part of our material creation, into the sanctuary,

and not with blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He once for all went into the real sanctuary and secured our eternal redemption.

It was therefore necessary that what was only a type of the heavenly sanctuary, should be purified by such sacrifices; but the heavenly sanctuary itself, by a more excellent sacrifice.

For it was not into a Sanctuary made by hands, a mere type of the reality, that Christ entered, but he entered into heaven itself, now to appear in the very presence of God on our behalf.

Nor did he enter to offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest entered into the sanctuary, year after year, with blood that was not his own;

Since then, brothers, we have free access to the sanctuary through the blood of Jesus,

by the way which he inaugurated for us--a new and living way, a way through the Sanctuary Curtain (that is, his human nature);

For the bodies of the animals whose blood is taken into the sanctuary by the high priest are burned outside the camp.