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Hebrews 9:17 (NIV)

because a will is in force only when somebody has died; it never takes effect while the one who made it is living.

Hebrews 9:18 (NIV)

This is why even the first covenant was not put into effect without blood.

Hebrews 9:20 (NIV)

He said, “This is the blood of the covenant, which God has commanded you to keep.”

Hebrews 9:21 (NIV)

In the same way, he sprinkled with the blood both the tabernacle and everything used in its ceremonies.

Hebrews 9:22 (NIV)

In fact, the law requires that nearly everything be cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.

Hebrews 9:23 (NIV)

It was necessary, then, for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

Hebrews 9:24 (NIV)

For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made with human hands that was only a copy of the true one; he entered heaven itself, now to appear for us in God’s presence.

Hebrews 9:25 (NIV)

Nor did he enter heaven to offer himself again and again, the way the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood that is not his own.

Hebrews 9:26 (NIV)

Otherwise Christ would have had to suffer many times since the creation of the world. But he has appeared once for all at the culmination of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of himself.

Hebrews 9:27 (NIV)

Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment,

Hebrews 9:28 (NIV)

so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.

The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming—not the realities themselves. For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship.

Hebrews 10:2 (NIV)

Otherwise, would they not have stopped being offered? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt guilty for their sins.

Hebrews 10:3 (NIV)

But those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins.

Hebrews 10:4 (NIV)

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

Hebrews 10:5 (NIV)

Therefore, when Christ came into the world, he said: “Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me;

Hebrews 10:7 (NIV)

Then I said, ‘Here I am—it is written about me in the scroll— I have come to do your will, my God.’ ”

Hebrews 10:8 (NIV)

First he said, “Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not desire, nor were you pleased with them”—though they were offered in accordance with the law.

Hebrews 10:9 (NIV)

Then he said, “Here I am, I have come to do your will.” He sets aside the first to establish the second.

Hebrews 10:10 (NIV)

And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

Hebrews 10:11 (NIV)

Day after day every priest stands and performs his religious duties; again and again he offers the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.

Hebrews 10:12 (NIV)

But when this priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God,

Hebrews 10:13 (NIV)

and since that time he waits for his enemies to be made his footstool.

Hebrews 10:14 (NIV)

For by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy.

Hebrews 10:15 (NIV)

The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First he says: