Hebrews 9:16-28 ▼

16 for where a covenant [is], [it is] necessary to establish the death of the [one] having made [it],

17 for a covenant is affirmed at death, since it is not in force at all when the [one] having made [it] lives,

18 for which reason, not even the first has been initiated apart from blood,

19 for every command having been spoken, according to law, by Moses, to all the people, having taken the blood of the calves and goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, he sprinkled both the scroll itself and all the people,

20 saying, “This [is] the blood of the covenant that God enjoined to you,”

21 and he sprinkled both the Dwelling Place and all the vessels of the service with blood in like manner,

22 and with blood almost all things are purified according to the Law, and forgiveness does not come apart from blood-shedding.

23 [It is] necessary, therefore, the pattern indeed of the things in the heavens to be purified with these, and the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these;

24 for the Christ did not enter into holy places made with hands—figures of the true—but into Heaven itself, now to be manifested in the presence of God for us;

25 nor that He may offer Himself many times, even as the chief priest enters into the holy places every year with blood of others,

26 otherwise it was necessary for Him to suffer many times from the foundation of the world, but now He has been revealed once, at the full end of the ages, for [the] annulling of sin through His sacrifice;

27 and as it is reserved for men to die once, and after this—judgment,

28 so also the Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, apart from a sin-offering, for salvation to those waiting for Him!