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Hebrews 9
²³ Therefore it was necessary for the copies of the things in the heavens to be cleansed with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
²⁴ For Christ did not enter a holy place made with hands, a mere copy of the true one, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;
²⁵ nor was it that He would offer Himself often, as the high priest enters the holy place year by year with blood that is not his own.
²⁶ Otherwise, He would have needed to suffer often since the foundation of the world; but now once at the consummation of the ages He has been manifested to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.
²⁷ And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment,
²⁸ so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time for salvation without reference to sin, to those who eagerly await Him.
Hebrews 10
¹ For the Law, since it has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the very form of things, can never, by the same sacrifices which they offer continually year by year, make perfect those who draw near.
² Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have had consciousness of sins?
³ But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins year by year.
⁴ For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
⁵ Therefore, when He comes into the world, He says, "Sacrifice and offering You have not desired, But a body You have prepared for Me;