the tabernacle, and all the implements of the service, in like manner,
with blood. [9:22]And almost all things, according to the law, are
purified with blood, and without the pouring out of blood there is no
forgiveness.
7 [9:23]It was necessary, therefore, that the symbols of things in the
heavens should be purified with these, but the heavenly things
themselves with better sacrifices than these. [9:24]For Christ did not
enter into the sanctuary made with hands, a type of the true, but into
heaven itself, and already has appeared before God for us, [9:25]not
that he may often present himself, as the chief priest enters into the
sanctuary once a year with the blood of another [being]; [9:26]since it
was necessary that it should suffer often from the foundation of the
world, but now once at the consummation of the world he has been
manifested to destroy sins by the sacrifice of himself. [9:27]And as it
is appointed to men once to die, but after this is the judgment,
[9:28]so also Christ having been once offered to bear the sins of many,
shall appear a second time without sin, to those who look for him for
salvation.
8 [10:1]For the law having a shadow of the good things that were to
come, not the very likeness of the things, could not by the sacrifices
which they offered continually every year perfect the offerers;
[10:2]if they could, would they not have ceased to be offered, because
those serving would have had no longer a knowledge of sins, having been
once purified? [10:3]But in them there was a remembrance of sins, year
by year; [10:4]for it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats
should take away sins. [10:5]Wherefore, coming into the world, he says,
A sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire, but a body didst thou
prepare me. [10:6]Whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou
wast not pleased with; [10:7]then I said, Behold, I come,--in the
volume of the book it is written of me,--to do thy will, O God.
[10:8]Saying before, Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings
and [sacrifices] for sin thou didst not desire and wast not pleased
with, which are offered according to the law, [10:9] then he said,
Behold, I come to do thy will. He takes away the first, that he may
establish the second, [10:10]by which will we have been sanctified
through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ, once for all.
9 [10:11]And every priest stood daily performing service and presenting
often the same sa
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