Hebrews 9:6–15

⁶These preparations having thus been made, the priests go continually into the first tent^j to carry out their ritual duties, ⁷but only the high priest goes into the second, and he but once a year and not without taking the blood that he offers for himself and for the sins committed unintentionally by the people.^{* 8}By this the Holy Spirit indicates that the way into the sanctuary has not yet been disclosed as long as the first tent^k is still standing.^{* 9}This is a symbol^l of the present time, indicating that gifts and sacrifices are offered that cannot perfect the conscience of the worshiper^{* 10}but deal only with food and drink and various baptisms, regulations for the body imposed until the time comes to set things right.^*

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*