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   [14] How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit   
   offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works   
   to serve the living God?   
   [15] And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by   
   means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the   
   first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal   
   inheritance.   
   [16] For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of   
   the testator.   
   [17] For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no   
   strength at all while the testator liveth.   
   [18] Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood.   
   [19] For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to   
   the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet   
   wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people,   
   [20] Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto   
   you.   
   [21] Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the   
   vessels of the ministry.   
   [22] And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without   
   shedding of blood is no remission.   
      
   Christ's Sacrifice Takes Away Sin   
      
   23 (Heb 8:5; 9:24) It was therefore necessary that the replicas of heavenly   
   things be cleansed with these sacrifices, but that the heavenly things   
   themselves be cleansed with better sacrifices than these.   
   24 (Heb 8:2) For Christ did not enter holy places made with hands,   
   which are patterned after the true one, but into heaven itself,   
   now to appear in the presence of God for us.   
   25 (Heb 9:7; 10:19) Nor did He enter to offer Himself often, as the high   
   priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood that is not his own.   
   26 (Heb 1:2; 7:27) For then He would have had to suffer repeatedly   
   since the world was created, but now He has appeared once at the end   
   of the ages to put away sin by sacrificing Himself.   
   27 (Ge 3:19; 2Co 5:10) As it is appointed for men to die once,   
   but after this comes the judgment,   
   28 (Titus 2:13; 1Pe 2:24) so Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many,   
   and He will appear a second time, not to bear sin but to save those who   
   eagerly wait for Him.   
      
   [23] It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens   
   should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with   
   better sacrifices than these.   
   [24] For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which   
   are the figures 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 entereth   
   into the holy place every year with blood of others;   
   [26] For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world:   
   but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the   
   sacrifice of himself.   
   [27] And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the   
   judgment:   
   [28] So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that   
   look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.   
      
   Hebrews 10   
   1 (Heb 8:5; 9:11) For the law is a shadow of the good things to come,   
   and not the very image of those things. It could never by the same sacrifices,   
   which they offer continually year after year, perfect those who draw near.   
   2 Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshippers,   
   once purified, would no longer be conscious of sins?   
   3 (Heb 9:7) But in those sacrifices there is an annual reminder of sins.   
   4 (Heb 10:11) For it is not possible for the blood of bulls   
   and goats to take away sins.   
   5 (Heb 1:6; Ge 3:15) Therefore, when He came into the world, He said:   
   "Sacrifices and offerings You did not desire,   
   but a body You have prepared for Me.   
   6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin   
   You have had no pleasure.   
   7 (Ge 3:15) Then I said, 'See, I have come to do Your will, O God,'   
   as it is written of Me   
   in the volume of the book."   
   8 (Heb 10:5) Previously when He said, "You did not desire sacrifices   
   and offerings. You have had no pleasure in burnt offerings   
   and sacrifices for sin,"(Ps 40:6.) which are offered in accordance   
   with the law,   
   9 (Heb 10:7) then He said, "See, I have come to do Your will, O God."   
   (Ps 40:8.) He takes away the first that He may establish the second.   
   10 (Jn 17:19; Heb 2:11) By this will we have been sanctified through   
   the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.   
   11 (Heb 5:1; 10:4) But every priest stands daily ministering and repetitively   
   offering the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.   
   12 (Heb 1:3) But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins   
   forever, sat down at the right hand of God.   
   13 (Heb 1:13; Ps 110:1) Since that time He has been waiting for His enemies   
   to be made His footstool.   
   14 (Heb 10:1) For by one offering He has forever perfected   
   those who are sanctified.   
   15 (Heb 3:7) The Holy Spirit also witnesses to us about this.   
   For after saying,   
   16 (Ro 11:27) "This is the covenant that I will make with them   
   after those days, says the Lord:   
   I will put My laws into their hearts,   
   and in their minds I will write them,"(Jer 31:33.)   
   17 (Heb 8:12) then He adds,   
   "Their sins and lawless deeds   
   will I remember no more."(*Jer 31:34.)   
   18 Now where there is forgiveness of these,   
   there is no longer an offering for sin.   
      
   [1] For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very   
   image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year   
   by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.   
   [2] For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the   
   worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.   
   [3] But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every   
   year.   
   [4] For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take   
   away sins.   
   [5] Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and   
   offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:   
   [6] In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.   
   [7] Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,)   
   to do thy will, O God.   
   [8] Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and   
   offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which   
   are offered by the law;   
   [9] Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the   
   first, that he may establish the second.   
   [10] By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of   
   Jesus Christ once for all.   
   [11] And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the   
   same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:   
   [12] But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat   
   down on the right hand of God;   
   [13] From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.   
   [14] For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are   
   sanctified.   
   [15] Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had   
   said before,   
   [16] This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith   
   the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I   
   write them;   
   [17] And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.   
   [18] Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.   
      
   Exhortation and Warning   
      
   19 (Eph 2:18; Heb 4:16) Therefore, brothers, we have confidence to enter   
      
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