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.

How much greater punishment do you think that person deserves who has contempt for the Son of God, and profanes the blood of the covenant that made him holy, and insults the Spirit of grace?

saying, “I will proclaim your name to my brothers; in the midst of the assembly I will praise you.”

We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, sure and steadfast, which reaches inside behind the curtain,

When he speaks of a new covenant, he makes the first obsolete. Now what is growing obsolete and aging is about to disappear.

And above the ark were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat. Now is not the time to speak of these things in detail.

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,

For if we deliberately keep on sinning after receiving the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins is left for us,

For you need endurance in order to do God’s will and so receive what is promised.

and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but be healed.

In fact, the scene was so terrifying that Moses said, “I shudder with fear.”

Now this phrase “once more” indicates the removal of what is shaken, that is, of created things, so that what is unshaken may remain.

But exhort one another each day, as long as it is called “Today,” that none of you may become hardened by sin’s deception.

In the same way God wanted to demonstrate more clearly to the heirs of the promise that his purpose was unchangeable, and so he intervened with an oath,

Without father, without mother, without genealogy, he has neither beginning of days nor end of life but is like the son of God, and he remains a priest for all time.

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

For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a young cow sprinkled on those who are defiled consecrated them and provided ritual purity,

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.

“Then I said, ‘Here I am: I have come – it is written of me in the scroll of the book – to do your will, O God.’”