Hebrews 9 - Revised Standard Version(RSVCI)

1 was prepared, the outer one, in which were the lampstand and the table and the bread of the Presence; it is called the Holy Place.

3 called the Holy of Holies,

4 performing their ritual duties;

7 is still standing

9(which is symbolic for the present age). According to this arrangement, gifts and sacrifices are offered which cannot perfect the conscience of the worshiper,

10but deal only with food and drink and various ablutions, regulations for the body imposed until the time of reformation.

11But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come, then through the greater and more perfect tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation)

12he entered once for all into the Holy Place, taking not the blood of goats and calves but his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption.

13 conscience from dead works to serve the living God.

15Therefore he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred which redeems them from the transgressions under the first covenant.

16For where 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.

18Hence even the first covenant was not ratified without blood.

19 and all the vessels used in worship.

22Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.

23Thus it was necessary for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these rites, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

24For Christ has entered, not into a sanctuary made with hands, a copy of the true one, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf.

25Nor was it to offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest enters the Holy Place yearly with blood not his own;

26for then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the age to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

27And just as it is appointed for men to die once, and after that comes judgment,

28so 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.