¹⁷ And if Christ is not risen, your faith is futile; ^(A)you are still in your sins!

^25 (A)who was delivered up because of our offenses, and ^(B)was raised because of our justification.

¹⁴ And if Christ is not risen, then our preaching is empty and your faith is also empty.

A Heavenly Inheritance

^3 (A)Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who ^(B)according to His abundant mercy ^(C)has begotten us again to a living hope ^(D)through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

²¹ who through Him believe in God, ^(A)who raised Him from the dead and ^(B)gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

³³ Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? ^(A)It is God who justifies. ^34 (B)Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, ^(C)who is even at the right hand of God, ^(D)who also makes intercession for us.

⁴ For ^(A)it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins.

Christ’s Death Fulfills God’s Will^(B)

⁵ Therefore, when He came into the world, He said:

⁸ Previously saying, “Sacrifice and offering, burnt offerings, and offerings for sin You did not desire, nor had pleasure in them” (which are offered according to the law), ⁹ then He said, “Behold, I have come to do Your will, ^[a]O God.” He takes away the first that He may establish the second. ^10 (D)By that will we have been ^[b]sanctified ^(E)through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

Christ’s Death Perfects the Sanctified

¹¹ And every priest stands ^(F)ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. ^12 (G)But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down ^(H)at the right hand of God,

²² And according to the law almost all things are ^[a]purified with blood, and ^(A)without shedding of blood there is no ^[b]remission.

Greatness of Christ’s Sacrifice

²³ Therefore it was necessary that ^(B)the copies of the things in the heavens should be ^[c]purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. ²⁴ For ^(C)Christ has not entered the holy places made with hands, which are ^[d]copies of ^(D)the true, but into heaven itself, now ^(E)to appear in the presence of God for us; ²⁵ not that He should offer Himself often, as ^(F)the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood of another— ²⁶ He then would have had to suffer often since the foundation of the world; but now, once at the end of the ages, He has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. ^27 (G)And as it is appointed for men to die once, ^(H)but after this the judgment, ²⁸ so ^(I)Christ was ^(J)offered once to bear the sins ^(K)of many. To those who ^(L)eagerly wait for Him He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation.

^2 (A)by which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you—unless ^(B)you believed in vain.