18 whence not even the first apart from blood has been initiated,
Hebrews 9:18 Cross References - RYLT
Hebrews 8:7-9
7 for if that first were faultless, a place would not have been sought for a second.
8 For finding fault, He says to them, 'Lo, days come, says the Lord, and I will complete with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah, a new covenant,
9 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers, in the day of My taking them by their hand, to bring them out of the land of Egypt -- because they did not remain in My covenant, and I did not regard them, says the Lord, --
Hebrews 9:14
14 how much more shall the blood of the Christ (who through the age-during Spirit did offer himself unblemished to God) purify your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Hebrews 9:22
22 and with blood almost all things are purified according to the law, and apart from blood-shedding forgiveness does not come.