1Now the first covenant had regulations for worship…
2A tabernacle was prepared. In its first room…
3Behind the second curtain was a room called…
4containing the golden altar of incense and the…
5Above the ark were the cherubim of glory,…
6When everything had been prepared in this way,…
7But only the high priest entered the second…
8By this arrangement the Holy Spirit was showing…
9It is an illustration for the present time,…
10They consist only in food and drink and…
11But when Christ came as high priest of…
12He did not enter by the blood of…
13For if the blood of goats and bulls…
14how much more will the blood of Christ,…
15Therefore Christ is the mediator of a new…
16In the case of a will, it is…
17because a will does not take effect until…
18That is why even the first covenant was…
19For when Moses had proclaimed every commandment of…
20saying, “This is the blood of the covenant,…
21In the same way, he sprinkled with blood…
22According to the law, in fact, nearly everything…
23So it was necessary for the copies of…
24For Christ did not enter a man-made copy…
25Nor did He enter heaven to offer Himself…
26Otherwise, Christ would have had to suffer repeatedly…
27Just as man is appointed to die once,…
28so also Christ was offered once to bear…