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If it could, would they not have stopped being offered? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt guilty for their sins.

because it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

Therefore, when Christ came into the world, he said: "Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me;

And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

But when this priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God.

Since that time he waits for his enemies to be made his footstool,

And where these have been forgiven, there is no longer any sacrifice for sin.

by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body,

Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful.

If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left,

For we know him who said, "It is mine to avenge; I will repay," and again, "The Lord will judge his people."

For in just a very little while, "He who is coming will come and will not delay.

Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.

This is what the ancients were commended for.

By faith Enoch was taken from this life, so that he did not experience death; he could not be found, because God had taken him away. For before he was taken, he was commended as one who pleased God.

For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God.

People who say such things show that they are looking for a country of their own.

Instead, they were longing for a better country—a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.

By faith Moses' parents hid him for three months after he was born, because they saw he was no ordinary child, and they were not afraid of the king's edict.

He chose to be mistreated along with the people of God rather than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a short time.