Hebrews 9:6–15

Limitations of the Earthly Service

⁶Now when these things had been thus prepared, ⁱthe priests always went into the first part of the tabernacle, performing the services. ⁷But into the second part the high priest went alone ^jonce a year, not without blood, which he offered for ^khimself and for the people’s sins committed in ignorance; ⁸the Holy Spirit indicating this, that ^lthe way into the Holiest of All was not yet made manifest while the first tabernacle was still standing. ⁹It was symbolic for the present time in which both gifts and sacrifices are offered ^mwhich cannot make him who performed the service perfect in regard to the conscience—¹⁰concerned only with ⁿfoods and drinks, ^ovarious ²washings, ^pand fleshly ordinances imposed until the time of reformation.

The Heavenly Sanctuary

¹¹But Christ came as High Priest of ^qthe good things ³to come, with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation. ¹²Not ^rwith the blood of goats and calves, but ^swith His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place ^tonce for all, ^uhaving obtained eternal redemption. ¹³For if ^vthe blood of bulls and goats and ^wthe ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the unclean, ⁴sanctifies for the ⁵purifying of the flesh, ¹⁴how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without ⁶spot to God, ^xcleanse your conscience from ^ydead works ^zto serve the living God? ¹⁵And for this reason ^aHe is the Mediator of the new covenant, by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, that ^bthose who are called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.