Hebrews 9:15–28

¹⁵Therefore, he is the mediator^l of a new covenant,^m so that those who are called might receive the promiseⁿ of the eternal inheritance, because a death has taken place for redemption from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.^{o 16}Where a will exists, the death of the one who made it must be established. ¹⁷For a will is valid only when people die, since it is never in effect while the one who made it is living. ¹⁸That is why even the first covenant was inaugurated with blood. ¹⁹For when every command had been proclaimed by Moses to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and goats,^A along with water, scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled the scroll itself and all the people,^{p 20}saying, This is the blood of the covenant that God has ordained for you.^{Bq 21}In the same way, he sprinkled the tabernacle and all the articles of worship with blood.^{r 22}According to the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.^s

²³Therefore, 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.^{t 24}For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made with hands (only a model^C of the true one) but into heaven itself, so that he might now appear in the presence of God for us.^{u 25}He did not do this to offer himself many times, as the high priest enters the sanctuary yearly with the blood of another.^{v 26}Otherwise, he would have had to suffer many times since the foundation of the world. But now he has appeared one time, at the end of the ages,^w for the removal of sin by the sacrifice of himself.^{x 27}And just as it is appointed for people to die once—and after this, judgment^y—²⁸so also Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many,^z will appear a second time,^aa not to bear sin, but^D to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.^ab