Hebrews 9:10-23

Wesley(i) 10 Only with meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed till the time of reformation. 11 But Christ being come, an high-priest of good things to come, through a greater and more perfect tabernacle, 12 not made with hands, that is, not of this building, And not by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood, entered in once for all into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. 13 For if the blood of bulls and goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: 14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge our conscience from dead works, to serve the living God? 15 And for this end he is the Mediator of a new covenant, that by means of death for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, they who are called might receive the promise of the eternal inheritance. 16 For where a testament is, there must also necessarily be the death of the testator. 17 For a testament is of force after men are dead; otherwise it is of no strength while the testator liveth. 18 Whence neither was the first testament consecrated without blood. 19 For when Moses had spoken all the commandment according to the law to all the people, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wooll, and hyssop, and the book itself, 20 and sprinkled all the people, Saying, This is the blood of the testament, which God hath enjoined unto you. 21 And in like manner he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle and all the vessels of the service. 22 And almost all things are according to the law purified with blood, and withoutshedding of blood there is no remission. 23 It was therefore necessary, that the patterns of things in heaven should be purified by these, but the heavenly things themselves by better sacrifices than these.