drinks, and various washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation. [1]
11 But Christ became an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us .
13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctify to the purifying of the flesh:
14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? [2]
15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they who are called may receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
16 For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. [3]
17 For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.
18 Hence even the first testament was not dedicated without blood. [4]
19 For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people, [5]
20 Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath commanded you.
21 Moreover he sprinkled likewise with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry.
22 And almost all things are by the law cleansed with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
23 It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
24 For Christ hath not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:
25 Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;
26 For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
27 And as it is appointed to men once to die, but after this the judgment:
28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and to them that look for him he shall appear the second time without sin to salvation.
CHAP. 10.
For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers to them perfect.
2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once cleansed should have had no more conscience of sins. [6]
3 But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.
4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
5 Therefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: [7]
6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.
7 Then said I, Lo, I come in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
8 Before when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure in them ; which are offered by the law;
9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
10 By that will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all .
11 And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering often the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:
12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;
13 From henceforth waiting till his enemies are made his footstool.
14 For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
15 Of this the Holy Spirit also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,
16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. [8]
18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, [9]
20 By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; [10]
- ↑ ordinances: or, rites, or, ceremonies
- ↑ spot: or, fault
- ↑ be: or, be brought in
- ↑ dedicated: or, purified
- ↑ scarlet: or, purple
- ↑ would...: or, they would have ceased to be offered, because, etc.
- ↑ hast...: or, thou hast fitted me
- ↑ And their: some copies have, Then he said, And their
- ↑ boldness: or, liberty
- ↑ consecrated: or, new made
