Hebrews 9:11-10:18

Hebrews 9:11–10:18 (ASV)

¹¹But Christ having come a high priest of the good things to come, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation, ¹²nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption. ¹³For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling them that have been defiled, sanctify unto the cleanness of the flesh: ¹⁴how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish unto God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? ¹⁵And for this cause he is the mediator of a new covenant, that a death having taken place for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, they that have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance. ¹⁶For where a testament is, there must of necessity be the death of him that made it. ¹⁷For a testament is of force where there hath been death: for it doth never avail while he that made it liveth. ¹⁸Wherefore even the first covenant hath not been dedicated without blood. ¹⁹For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses unto all the people according to the law, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, ²⁰saying, This is the blood of the covenant which God commanded to you-ward. ²¹Moreover the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry he sprinkled in like manner with the blood. ²²And according to the law, I may almost say, all things are cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.

²³It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. ²⁴For Christ entered not into a holy place made with hands, like in pattern to the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear before the face of God for us: ²⁵nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place year by year with blood not his own; ²⁶else must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once at the end of the ages hath he been manifested to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. ²⁷And inasmuch as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this cometh judgment; ²⁸so Christ also, having been once offered to bear the sins of many, shall appear a second time, apart from sin, to them that wait for him, unto salvation.

10 For the law having a shadow of the good things to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect them that draw nigh. ²Else would they not have ceased to be offered? because the worshippers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins. ³But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance made of sins year by year. ⁴For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins. ⁵Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith,

Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not,

But a body didst thou prepare for me;

⁶In whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hadst no pleasure:

⁷Then said I, Lo, I am come

(In the roll of the book it is written of me)

To do thy will, O God.

⁸Saying above, Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein (the which are offered according to the law), ⁹then hath he said, Lo, I am come to do thy will. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. ¹⁰By which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. ¹¹And every priest indeed standeth day by day ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, the which can never take away sins: ¹²but he, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; ¹³henceforth expecting till his enemies be made the footstool of his feet. ¹⁴For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. ¹⁵And the Holy Spirit also beareth witness to us; for after he hath said,

¹⁶This is the covenant that I will make with them

After those days, saith the Lord:

I will put my laws on their heart,

And upon their mind also will I write them;

then saith he,

¹⁷And their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.

¹⁸Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.