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saying, This is the blood of the covenant that God has commanded for you.

Therefore it was necessary for the copies of the things in the heavens to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves to be purified with better sacrifices than these.

For the Messiah did not enter a sanctuary made with hands (only a model of the true one) but into heaven itself, so that He might now appear in the presence of God for us.

Otherwise, He would have had to suffer many times since the foundation of the world. But now He has appeared one time, at the end of the ages, for the removal of sin by the sacrifice of Himself.

And just as it is appointed for people to die once—and after this, judgment—

so also the Messiah, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for Him.

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

Therefore, as He was coming into the world, He said: You did not want sacrifice and offering, but You prepared a body for Me.

By this will of God, we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once and for all.

But this man, after offering one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God.

For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are sanctified.

The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. For after He says:

Now where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer an offering for sin.

by a new and living way He has opened for us through the curtain (that is, His flesh),

Let us hold on to the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.

For if we deliberately sin after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

For we know the One who has said, Vengeance belongs to Me, I will repay, and again, The Lord will judge His people.

For you sympathized with the prisoners and accepted with joy the confiscation of your possessions, knowing that you yourselves have a better and enduring possession.

For you need endurance, so that after you have done God's will, you may receive what was promised.

For yet in a very little while, the Coming One will come and not delay.