Hebrews 9:11–22

¹¹But when Christ came as a high priest of the good things that have come,^m then through the greater and more perfect tentⁿ (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation),^{* 12}he entered once for all into the holy place, not with the blood of goats and calves but with his own blood, thus obtaining eternal redemption.^{* 13}For if the blood of goats and bulls and the sprinkling of the ashes of a heifer sanctifies those who have been defiled so that their flesh is purified,^{* 14}how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit^o offered himself without blemish to God, purify our^p conscience from dead works to worship the living God!^*

¹⁵For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, because a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions under the first covenant.^{q* 16}Where a will^r is involved, the death of the one who made it must be established. ¹⁷For a will^s takes effect only at death, since it is not in force as long as the one who made it is alive. ¹⁸Hence not even the first covenant was inaugurated without blood.^{* 19}For when every commandment had been told to all the people by Moses in accordance with the law, he took the blood of calves and goats,^t with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the scroll itself and all the people,^{* 20}saying, “This is the blood of the covenant that God has ordained for you.” ²¹And in the same way he sprinkled with the blood both the tent^u and all the vessels used in worship.^{* 22}Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.^*