'Blood' in the Bible

Therefore, since the children share in blood and flesh, he also in like manner shared in these [same things], in order that through death he could destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil,

but only the high priest [enters] into the second [tent] once a year, not without blood, which he offers on behalf of himself and the [sins] of the people committed in ignorance.

and not by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood, he entered once for all into the [most] holy place, obtaining eternal redemption.

For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a young cow sprinkled on those who are defiled sanctify [them] for the ritual purity of the flesh,

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

Therefore not even the first [covenant] was ratified without blood.

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

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

And likewise he sprinkled both the tabernacle and all the utensils of service with the blood.

Indeed, nearly everything is purified with blood according to the law, and apart from the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.

and not in order that he can offer himself many times, as the high priest enters into the sanctuary {year by year} with blood not his own,

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

Therefore, brothers, [since we] have confidence for the entrance into the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus,

How much worse punishment do you think the person will be considered worthy of who treats with disdain the Son of God and who considers ordinary the blood of the covenant by which he was made holy and who insults the Spirit of grace?

By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, in order that the one who destroyed the firstborn would not touch them.

You have not yet resisted to the point of [shedding your] blood [as you] struggle against sin.

and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and {to the sprinkled blood} that speaks better than Abel's [does].

For the bodies of those animals whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sins are burned up outside the camp.

Therefore Jesus also suffered outside the gate, in order 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, by the blood of the eternal covenant,