Hebrews 9:11–22

¹¹But Christ being come high priest of the good things to come, by the better and more perfect tabernacle not made with hand, (that is, not of this creation,) ¹²nor by blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood, has entered in once for all into the holy of holies, having found an eternal redemption. ¹³For if the blood of goats and bulls, and a heifer’s ashes sprinkling the defiled, sanctifies for the purity of the flesh, ¹⁴how much rather shall the blood of the Christ, who by the eternal Spirit offered himself spotless to God, purify your conscience from dead works to worship the living God?

¹⁵And for this reason he is mediator of a new covenant, so that, death having taken place for redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, the called might receive the promise of the eternal inheritance. ¹⁶(For where there is a testament, the death of the testator must needs come in. ¹⁷For a testament is of force when men are dead, since it is in no way of force while the testator is alive.) ¹⁸Whence neither the first was inaugurated without blood. ¹⁹For every commandment having been spoken according to the law by Moses to all the people; having taken the blood of calves and goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, he sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, ²⁰saying, This is the blood of the covenant which God has enjoined to you. ²¹And the tabernacle too and all the vessels of service he sprinkled in like manner with blood; ²²and almost all things are purified with blood according to the law, and without blood-shedding there is no remission.