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But Christ Entered The True Holy of Holies Once For All And Obtained Redemption

¹¹ But Christ, having arrived^[a] as High Priest of the good things having come, entered^[b] once-for-all into the Holies through^[c] the greater and more-perfect tabernacle not made-by-human-hands— that is, not of this creation; ¹² and not through^[d] the blood of goats and calves, but through His own blood, having obtained^[e] eternal redemption.

For Through The Spirit He Offered Himself Without Blemish To God

¹³ For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling the ones having been defiled sanctifies for the cleansing of the flesh, ¹⁴ by how much more will the blood of Christ, Who through the eternal Spirit^[f] offered Himself without-blemish to God, cleanse our conscience from dead works so that we may worship^[g] the living God!

Thus Christ Mediates a New Covenant Inaugurated By His Own Blood

¹⁵ And for this reason He is the mediator of a new covenant, so that the ones having been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance— a death having taken-place for the redemption from the transgressions committed under^[h] the first covenant. ¹⁶ For where there is a will^[i], it is a necessity that the death of the one having made-the-will be brought-forth. ¹⁷ For a will over dead ones is firm, since it does not ever have [legal] power when the one having made-the-will is living. ¹⁸ Hence, not even the first covenant has been inaugurated^[j] without blood. ¹⁹ For every commandment having been spoken to all the people by Moses according-to^[k] the Law— having taken the blood of the calves and the goats along with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, he sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, ²⁰ saying “This is the blood of the covenant which God commanded to you” [Ex 24:8]. ²¹ And he likewise sprinkled with the blood both the tabernacle and all the objects of the ministry. ²² Indeed according-to^[l] the Law almost everything is cleansed^[m] with blood, and forgiveness does not take-place^[n] apart-from blood-shedding^[o]. ²³ Therefore it was a necessity that the copies^[p] of the things in the heavens be cleansed with these^[q] things— but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

He Entered The Heavenly Temple

²⁴ For Christ did not enter into the Holies made-by-human-hands— copies of the true things— but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us.

He Offered Himself Once For All As a Sacrifice To Set Aside Sin

²⁵ Nor did He enter in order that He might offer Himself often— as indeed the high priest enters into the Holies yearly with the blood belonging-to-another— ²⁶ otherwise He would had-to-have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now He has appeared once-for-all at the conclusion^[r] of the ages for the setting-aside of sin by the sacrifice^[s] of Himself.

He Will Appear To Us a Second Time For Salvation

²⁷ And just as it is destined for people to die once and after this comes the judgment, ²⁸ so also^[t] Christ, having been offered once so as to bear^[u] the sins of many, will appear for a second time without reference to sin to the ones eagerly-awaiting Him, for salvation.