Hebrews 9:8-16 In all this the holy Spirit was seeking to show that there was no free access to the sanctuary while the outer tent was still standing.

Goodspeed⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁸ In all this the holy Spirit was seeking to show that there was no free access to the sanctuary while the outer tent was still standing. ⁹ And all this looked toward the present time and was symbolic of the fact that the mere offering of material gifts and sacrifices cannot inwardly qualify the worshiper to approach God, ¹⁰ since they have to do only with food and drink and various washings—material regulations in force only until the time for the new order. ¹¹ But when Christ came, as the high priest of the better system under which we live, he went once for all, through that greater, more perfect tent of worship not made by human hands nor a part of our material creation, into the sanctuary, ¹² taking with him no blood of goats and calves, but his own, and secured our permanent deliverance. ¹³ For if sprinkling ceremonially defiled persons with the blood of bulls and goats and with the ashes of a heifer purifies them physically, ¹⁴ how much more surely will the blood of the Christ, who with the eternal Spirit made himself an unblemished offering to God, purify our consciences from the old wrongdoing for the worship of the everliving God? ¹⁵ And this is why he is the negotiator of a new agreement, in order that as someone has died to deliver them from the offenses committed under the old agreement, those who have been offered it may receive the unending inheritance they have been promised. ¹⁶ For where a will is involved, the death of the one who made it must be established,