⁴⁰ since God had provided something better so that they would not, apart from us, be made perfect.^(A)

¹¹ And every priest stands day after day at his service, offering again and again the same sacrifices that can never take away sins.^{(A) 12} But when Christ^[a] had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, “he sat down at the right hand of God,” ¹³ and since then has been waiting “until his enemies would be made a footstool for his feet.”^{(B) 14} For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are sanctified.

¹¹ They were each given a white robe and told to rest a little longer, until the number would be complete both of their fellow servants and of their brothers and sisters who were soon to be killed as they themselves had been killed.^(A)

Christ’s Sacrifice Takes Away Sin

²³ Thus it was necessary for the sketches of the heavenly things to be purified with these rites, but the heavenly things themselves need better sacrifices than these.

⁶ But Jesus^[a] has now obtained a more excellent ministry, and to that degree he is the mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted on the basis of better promises.^(A)

¹⁹ (for the law made nothing perfect); there is, on the other hand, the introduction of a better hope through which we approach God.^(A)

⁸ By this the Holy Spirit indicates that the way into the sanctuary has not yet been disclosed as long as the first tent^[a] is still standing.^{(A) 9} This is a symbol^[b] of the present time, indicating that gifts and sacrifices are offered that cannot perfect the conscience of the worshiper^{(B) 10} but deal only with food and drink and various baptisms, regulations for the body imposed until the time comes to set things right.^(C)

¹¹ But when Christ came as a high priest of the good things that have come,^[c] then through the greater and more perfect tent^[d] (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation),^{(D) 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.^{(E) 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,^{(F) 14} how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit^[e] offered himself without blemish to God, purify our^[f] conscience from dead works to worship the living God!^(G)

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.^[g](H)

⁹ and having been made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him,^(A)

²⁵ whom God put forward as a sacrifice of atonement^[a] by his blood, effective through faith. He did this to demonstrate his righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over the sins previously committed;^{(A) 26} it was to demonstrate at the present time his own righteousness, so that he is righteous and he justifies the one who has the faith of Jesus.^[b]