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For

there is one God;
    there is also one mediator between God and humankind,
Christ Jesus, himself human,(A)
    who gave himself a ransom for all

—this was attested at the right time.(B)

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11 But when Christ came as a high priest of the good things that have come,[a] then through the greater and more perfect tent[b] (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation),(A) 12 he entered once for all into the holy place, not with the blood of goats and calves but with his own blood, thus obtaining eternal redemption.(B) 13 For if the blood of goats and bulls and the sprinkling of the ashes of a heifer sanctifies those who have been defiled so that their flesh is purified,(C) 14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit[c] offered himself without blemish to God, purify our[d] conscience from dead works to worship the living God!(D)

15 For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, because a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions under the first covenant.[e](E)

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Footnotes

  1. 9.11 Other ancient authorities read good things to come
  2. 9.11 Or tabernacle
  3. 9.14 Other ancient authorities read Holy Spirit
  4. 9.14 Other ancient authorities read your
  5. 9.15 The Greek word used here means both covenant and will