This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, secure and strong, and passing into the sanctuary which is beyond the veil;

as officiating Priest in that sanctuary, which is also the true tent of worship, which the Lord and not man set up.

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 even a first covenant had ordinances of divine service, and its sanctuary, a sanctuary of this world.

For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary.

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

By this the Holy Spirit was showing that there was as yet no access to the real sanctuary while the outer tent was still in existence,

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 a sanctuary made by human hands, a mere copy of the true one, that Christ entered, but it was into heaven itself that He went, in order now to appear for us in the very presence of God.

And He does not enter to offer Himself over and over again, as the high priest enters the sanctuary year after year with blood that is not his own;

Since then, my brothers, we have free access to the real 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 those animals, whose blood is taken into the sanctuary by the priest as a sin-offering, are burned outside the camp.