Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

²³ It is needful then that the similitudes of heavenly things be purified with such things, but the heavenly things themselves are purified with better sacrifices than are those. ²⁴ For Christ has not entered into the holy places that are made with hands, which are but similitudes of true things, but has entered into very heaven, to appear now in the sight of God for us – ²⁵ not to offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest enters into the holy place every year with strange blood. ²⁶ For then he must have repeatedly suffered since the world began. But now, in the end of the world, he has appeared once and for all to put sin to flight by the offering up of himself. ²⁷ And as it is appointed unto men once to die, and then comes the judgment, ²⁸ so Christ was offered once to take away the sins of many, and to those who look for him, he will appear again without sin for salvation.