¹⁷ These are a shadow^(A) of what was to come;^(B) the substance is^[a] Christ.^(C)

²³ Therefore, it was necessary for the copies of the things in the heavens to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves to be purified with better sacrifices than these.^(A)

The Perfect Sacrifice

10 Since the law has only a shadow of the good things^(A) to come, and not the reality itself of those things, it can never perfect the worshippers by the same sacrifices they continually offer year after year.