9Which was a figure for the time then present, in which
were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did
the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience; 10Which
stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances,
imposed on them until the time of reformation. 11But Christ
being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect
tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
12Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood
he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption
for us. 13For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the
ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of
the flesh: 14How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through
the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience
from dead works to serve the living God?
15And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament,
that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that
were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the
promise of eternal inheritance. 16For where a testament is,
there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. 17For
a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no
strength at all while the testator liveth. 18Whereupon neither
the first testament was dedicated without blood. The King James
Version, (Cambridge: Cambridge) 1769.
