Concluding Exposition: Old and New Sacrifices Contrasted For the law possesses a shadow of the good things to come but not the reality itself, and is therefore completely unable, by the same sacrifices offered continually, year after year, to perfect those who come to worship.
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2For otherwise would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers would have been purified once for all and so have no further consciousness of sin?
3But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins year after year.
4For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
5So when he came into the world, he said,“Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me.
6“Whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you took no delight in.
5And above the ark were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat. Now is not the time to speak of these things in detail.
6So with these things prepared like this, the priests enter continually into the outer tent as they perform their duties.
7But only the high priest enters once a year into the inner tent, and not without blood that he offers for himself and for the sins of the people committed in ignorance.
8The Holy Spirit is making clear that the way into the holy place had not yet appeared as long as the old tabernacle was standing.
9This was a symbol for the time then present, when gifts and sacrifices were offered that could not perfect the conscience of the worshiper.
10They served only for matters of food and drink and various ritual washings; they are external regulations imposed until the new order came.
11Christ’s Service in the Heavenly Sanctuary But now Christ has come as the high priest of the good things to come. He passed through the greater and more perfect tent not made with hands, that is, not of this creation,
12and he entered once for all into the most holy place not by the blood of goats and calves but by his own blood, and so he himself secured eternal redemption.
13For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a young cow sprinkled on those who are defiled consecrated them and provided ritual purity,
18On the one hand a former command is set aside because it is weak and useless,
19for the law made nothing perfect. On the other hand a better hope is introduced, through which we draw near to God.
20And since this was not done without a sworn affirmation– for the others have become priests without a sworn affirmation,
8When he says above,“Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you did not desire nor did you take delight in them”(which are offered according to the law),
9then he says,“Here I am: I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first to establish the second.
10By his will we have been made holy through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
11And every priest stands day after day serving and offering the same sacrifices again and again– sacrifices that can never take away sins.
12But when this priest had offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, he sat down at the right hand of God,
14For by one offering he has perfected for all time those who are made holy.
15And the Holy Spirit also witnesses to us, for after saying,
22Indeed according to the law almost everything was purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.
23So it was necessary for the sketches of the things in heaven to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves required better sacrifices than these.
24For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made with hands– the representation of the true sanctuary– but into heaven itself, and he appears now in God’s presence for us.
25And he did not enter to offer himself again and again, the way the high priest enters the sanctuary year after year with blood that is not his own,
26for then he would have had to suffer again and again since the foundation of the world. But now he has appeared once for all at the consummation of the ages to put away sin by his sacrifice.
4Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest, since there are already priests who offer the gifts prescribed by the law.
5The place where they serve is a sketch and shadow of the heavenly sanctuary, just as Moses was warned by God as he was about to complete the tabernacle. For he says,“See that you make everything according to the design shown to you on the mountain.”
6But now Jesus has obtained a superior ministry, since the covenant that he mediates is also better and is enacted on better promises.
7For if that first covenant had been faultless, no one would have looked for a second one.
27He has no need to do every day what those priests do, to offer sacrifices first for their own sins and then for the sins of the people, since he did this in offering himself once for all.
28For the law appoints as high priests men subject to weakness, but the word of solemn affirmation that came after the law appoints a son made perfect forever.
17these are only the shadow of the things to come, but the reality is Christ!
18Now where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin.
19Drawing Near to God in Enduring Faith Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus,
11Jesus and the Priesthood of Melchizedek So if perfection had in fact been possible through the Levitical priesthood– for on that basis the people received the law– what further need would there have been for another priest to arise, said to be in the order of Melchizedek and not in Aaron’s order?
12For when the priesthood changes, a change in the law must come as well.
40For God had provided something better for us, so that they would be made perfect together with us.
10We have an altar that those who serve in the tabernacle have no right to eat from.
2a minister in the sanctuary and the true tabernacle that the Lord, not man, set up.
13When he speaks of a new covenant, he makes the first obsolete. Now what is growing obsolete and aging is about to disappear.
10For indeed, what had been glorious now has no glory because of the tremendously greater glory of what replaced it.
1The Arrangement and Ritual of the Earthly Sanctuary Now the first covenant, in fact, had regulations for worship and its earthly sanctuary.
18So even the first covenant was inaugurated with blood.
16who has become a priest not by a legal regulation about physical descent but by the power of an indestructible life.
34This is to be a perpetual statute for you to make atonement for the Israelites for all their sins once a year.” So he did just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
26For if we deliberately keep on sinning after receiving the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins is left for us,