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goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the Holy Place, having obtained eternal redemption. 13 For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled, sanctify to the cleanness of the flesh, 14 how much
more will the blood of Messiah, who through the eternal
Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your
conscience from dead works to serve the living God? 15 For this
reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, that those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance. 16 For where a last
will and testament is, there must of
necessity be the death of him who made it. 17 For a
will is in force where there has been death, for it is never in force while he who made it lives. 18 Therefore even the first covenant has not been dedicated without blood. 19 For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the Torah, 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, 20 saying, “This is the blood of the covenant which God has commanded you.”*
21 He sprinkled the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry in the same way with the blood. 22 According to the Torah, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.
23 It 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. 24 For Messiah hasn’t entered into holy places made with hands, which are representations 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 enters into the holy place year by year with blood not his own, 26 or else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. 27 Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this,
judgment, 28 so Messiah also, 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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1 For the Torah, having a shadow of the
good to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near. 2 Or else wouldn’t they have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having been once cleansed, would have had no
more consciousness of sins? 3 But in those sacrifices there is a yearly reminder of sins. 4 For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins. 5 Therefore when he comes into the world, he says,
“You didn’t desire sacrifice and offering,
but you prepared a body for me.
6 You had no
pleasure in whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin.
7 Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come (in the scroll of the book it is written of me)
to do your
will, O God.’ ”*
8 Previously saying, “Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you didn’t desire, neither had
pleasure in them” (those which are offered according to the Torah), 9 then he has said, “Behold, I have come to do your
will.” He takes away the first, that he may establish the second, 10 by which
will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Yeshua the Messiah once for all.
11 Every priest indeed stands day by day serving and offering often the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins, 12 but he, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God, 13 from that time waiting until his enemies are made the footstool of his feet. 14 For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are
being sanctified. 15 The Holy
Spirit also testifies to us, for after saying,
16 “This is the covenant that I
will make with them
after those days,” says the Lord,
“I
will put my laws on their
heart,
I
will also write them on their
mind;”*
then he says,
17 “I
will remember their sins and their iniquities no
more.”*
18 Now where remission of these is, there is no
more offering for sin.
19 Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Yeshua, 20 by the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh, 21 and having a great priest over God’s house, 22 let’s draw near with a true
heart in fullness of
faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil
conscience and having our body washed with pure water, 23 let’s hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.
24 Let’s consider how to provoke one another to love and
good works, 25 not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the
more as you see the Day approaching.
26 For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no
more a sacrifice for sins, 27 but a certain fearful expectation of
judgment, and a fierceness of fire which
will devour the adversaries. 28 A man who disregards the Torah of Moses dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses. 29 How much worse
punishment do you think he
will be judged worthy of who has trodden under
foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy
thing, and has insulted the
Spirit of grace? 30 For we know him who said, “Vengeance belongs to me. I
will repay,” says the Lord.* Again, “The Lord
will judge his people.”* 31 It is a fearful
thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
32 But remember the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings: 33 partly,
being exposed to both reproaches and oppressions, and partly,
becoming partakers with those who were treated so. 34 For you both had compassion on me in my chains and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens. 35 Therefore don’t throw away your boldness, which has a great reward. 36 For you need
endurance so that, having done the
will of God, you may receive the promise.
37 “In a very little while,
he who comes
will come and
will not wait.
38 But the righteous one
will live by
faith.
If he shrinks back, my
soul has no
pleasure in him.”*
39 But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have
faith to the saving of the
soul.
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1 Now
faith is assurance of things hoped for,
proof of things not seen. 2 For by this, the elders obtained approval. 3 By
faith we understand that the universe has been framed by the word of God, so that what is seen has not been made out of things which are visible.
4 By
faith Abel offered to God a
more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had
testimony given to him that he was righteous, God testifying with respect to his gifts; and through it he,
being dead, still speaks.
5 By
faith Enoch was taken away, so that he wouldn’t see death, and he was not found, because God translated him. For he has had
testimony given to him that before his translation he had been well pleasing to God. 6 Without
faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.
7 By
faith Noah,
being warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly fear,† prepared a ship for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to
faith.
8 By
faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to the place which he was to receive for an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he went. 9 By
faith he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise. 10 For he was looking for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
11 By
faith even Sarah herself received
power to conceive, and she bore a child when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised. 12 Therefore as many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as innumerable as the sand which is by the sea shore, were fathered by one man, and him as
good as dead.
13 These all died in
faith, not having received the promises, but having seen‡ them and