22 Instead, you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God (the heavenly Jerusalem), to myriads of angels in festive gathering,(A) 23 to the assembly of the firstborn whose names have been written[a] in heaven, to God who is the Judge of all, to the spirits of righteous people made perfect,(B) 24 to Jesus (mediator(C) of a new covenant(D)), and to the sprinkled blood, which says better things than the blood of Abel.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 12:23 Or registered

22 But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, to the heavenly Jerusalem, and to tens of thousands of angels, to the festal gathering 23 and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of righteous people made perfect, 24 and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood[a] that speaks better than Abel’s does.

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 12:24 Literally “to the blood of sprinkling”