Hebrews 9:18-28

English Standard Version

¹⁸ Therefore not even the first covenant was inaugurated ^(A)without blood. ¹⁹ For when every commandment of the law had been declared by Moses to all the people, he took ^(B)the blood of calves and goats, ^(C)with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, ²⁰ saying, ^(D)“This is the blood of the covenant that God commanded for you.” ²¹ And in the same way he sprinkled with the blood both ^(E)the tent and all the vessels used in worship. ²² Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and ^(F)without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.

²³ Thus it was necessary for ^(G)the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these rites, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. ²⁴ For Christ has entered, not into holy places ^(H)made with hands, which are copies of the true things, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God ^(I)on our behalf. ²⁵ Nor was it to offer himself repeatedly, as ^(J)the high priest enters ^(K)the holy places every year with blood not his own, ²⁶ for then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But as it is, ^(L)he has appeared ^(M)once for all ^(N)at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. ²⁷ And just as ^(O)it is appointed for man to die once, and ^(P)after that comes judgment, ²⁸ so Christ, having been offered once ^(Q)to bear the sins of ^(R)many, will appear ^(S)a second time, ^(T)not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly ^(U)waiting for him.