1Now the first covenant had regulations for worship and an earthly sanctuary.
2 was constructed, the first one, in which were the lampstand, the table, and the bread of the Presence; this is called the holy place.
3 called the holy of holies.
4 Of these things we cannot speak now in detail.
6These preparations having thus been made, the priests go continually into the first tent to carry out their ritual duties,
7 is still standing.
9 of the present time, indicating that gifts and sacrifices are offered that cannot perfect the conscience of the worshiper
10 then through the greater and more perfect tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation),
12 offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to worship the living God!
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16Where a will is involved, the death of the one who made it must be established.
17For a will takes effect only at death, since it is not in force as long as the one who made it is alive.
18 with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the scroll itself and all the people,
20saying, “This is the blood of the covenant that God has ordained for you.”
21 and all the vessels used in worship.
22Lev 17.11Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.
Christ’s Sacrifice Takes Away Sin23Thus it was necessary for the sketches of the heavenly things to be purified with these rites, but the heavenly things themselves need better sacrifices than these.
24Heb 6.20; 7.25; 8.2; 1 Jn 2.1For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made by human hands, a mere copy of the true one, but he entered into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf.
25Nor was it to offer himself again and again, as the high priest enters the holy place year after year with blood that is not his own,
26Heb 1.2; 4.3; 7.27for then he would have had to suffer again and again since the foundation of the world. But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to remove sin by the sacrifice of himself.
27Gen 3.19; 2 Cor 5.10And just as it is appointed for mortals to die once and after that the judgment,
28Rom 6.10; Titus 2.13; 1 Pet 2.24so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.
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