Hebrews 9:6–15

⁶With these things prepared like this, the priests enter the first room repeatedly, performing their ministry.^{b 7}But the high priest alone enters the second room, and he does that only once a year, and never without blood, which he offers for himself and for the sins the people had committed in ignorance.^{c 8}The Holy Spirit was making it clear that the way into the most holy place had not yet been disclosed while the first tabernacle was still standing.^{d 9}This is a symbol for the present time, during which gifts and sacrifices are offered that cannot perfect the worshiper’s conscience.^{e 10}They are physical regulations and only deal with food, drink, and various washings imposed until the time of the new order.^f

NEW COVENANT MINISTRY

¹¹But Christ has appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come.^C In the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands (that is, not of this creation^g), ¹²he entered the most holy place once for all time, not by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood, having obtained eternal redemption.^{h 13}For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a young cow, sprinkling those who are defiled, sanctify for the purification of the flesh,^{i 14}how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit^j offered himself without blemish to God, cleanse our^D consciences from dead works so that we can serve the living God?^k

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