By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac. He had received the promises, yet he was ready to offer up his only son.

For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices. So this one too had to have something to offer.

and for this reason he is obligated to make sin offerings for himself as well as for the people.

Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest, since there are already priests who offer the gifts prescribed by the law.

And he did not enter to offer himself again and again, the way the high priest enters the sanctuary year after year with blood that is not his own,

For otherwise would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers would have been purified once for all and so have no further consciousness of sin?

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

Endure your suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is there that a father does not discipline?

For every high priest is taken from among the people and appointed to represent them before God, to offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.

But only the high priest enters once a year into the inner tent, and not without blood that he offers for himself and for the sins of the people committed in ignorance.

This was a symbol for the time then present, when gifts and sacrifices were offered that could not perfect the conscience of the worshiper.

so also, after Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many, to those who eagerly await him he will appear a second time, not to bear sin but to bring salvation.

When he says above, “Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you did not desire nor did you take delight in them” (which are offered according to the law),

And every priest stands day after day serving and offering the same sacrifices again and again – sacrifices that can never take away sins.

During his earthly life Christ offered both requests and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to the one who was able to save him from death and he was heard because of his devotion.

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our consciences from dead works to worship the living God.

For the law possesses a shadow of the good things to come but not the reality itself, and is therefore completely unable, by the same sacrifices offered continually, year after year, to perfect those who come to worship.

By faith Abel offered God a greater sacrifice than Cain, and through his faith he was commended as righteous, because God commended him for his offerings. And through his faith he still speaks, though he is dead.