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Therefore it was necessary for the copies of the things in the heavens to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves to be purified with better sacrifices than these.^(w)

For the Messiah did not enter a sanctuary made with hands (only a model^[e] of the true one) but into heaven itself, so that He might now appear in the presence of God for us.^(x)

He did not do this to offer Himself many times, as the high priest enters the sanctuary yearly with the blood of another.^(y)

Otherwise, He would have had to suffer many times since the foundation of the world. But now He has appeared one time, at the end of the ages,^(z) for the removal of sin by the sacrifice of Himself.^(aa)

And just as it is appointed for people to die once—and after this, judgment^(ab)—

so also the Messiah, having been offered once to bear the sins of many,^(ac) will appear a second time,^(ad) not to bear sin, but^[f] to bring salvation to those who are waiting for Him.^(ae)

Since the law has only a shadow of the good things^(a) to come, and not the actual form of those realities, it can never perfect the worshipers by the same sacrifices they continually offer year after year.

Otherwise, wouldn't they have stopped being offered, since the worshipers, once purified, would no longer have any consciousness of sins?

But in the sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year.

For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

Therefore, as He was coming into the world, He said: You did not want sacrifice and offering, but You prepared a body for Me.

You did not delight in whole burnt offerings and sin offerings.

Then I said, "See— it is written about Me in the volume of the scroll— I have come to do Your will, God!" ^(b)[a]

After He says above, You did not want or delight in sacrifices and offerings, whole burnt offerings and sin offerings (which are offered according to the law^(c)),

He then says, See, I have come to do Your will. ^[b] He takes away the first to establish the second.

By this will of God, we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once and for all.^(d)

Every priest stands day after day ministering and offering the same sacrifices time after time, which can never take away sins.^(e)

But this man, after offering one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God.^(f)

He is now waiting until His enemies are made His footstool.^(g)

For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are sanctified.

The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. For after He says:

This is the covenant I will make with them after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws on their hearts and write them on their minds,

He adds: I will never again remember their sins and their lawless acts. ^(h)[c]

Now where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer an offering for sin.